Assistant corporation counsel vs student attorney

Differences between assistant corporation counsel and student attorney duties and responsibilities

Assistant corporation counsel example responsibilities.

• Garner significant employment-relate litigation experience, including civil defense, motion practice, discovery practice, legal research and persuasive writing.
• Draft depositions, petitions, subpoenas and motions.
• Investigate and litigate all grievance and arbitration matters.
• Type pleadings, motions, subpoenas and court documents for court filing.
• Engage in arbitration hearings and review depositions.
• Experience at handling large-scale and complex litigation with multiple defendants and plaintiffs in police misconduct and sexual harassment/pregnancy discrimination cases.
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Student attorney example responsibilities.

• Generate an internal memorandum exploring VAWA and special immigrant juvenile cases that lead to the establishment of a new clinic program.
• Provide direct representation to low-income clients on a range of matters including family, criminal, probate, and post-conviction review.
• Issue subpoenas for opposing party's financial records, records for businesses own by opposing party and records of government organizations.
• Compose subpoenas and collect discovery.
• Represent clients before administrative and probate judges.
• Handle trial and arbitration preparation and document review.
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