Training

We are committed to training excellent lawyers and providing the best possible legal service to our clients. Although formal ongoing legal training and skills development are an integral part of life at SRZ, hands-on experience and an open-door policy are key to the success of our attorney training. We provide our associates with training to prepare them to handle early substantive responsibility and client contact.

Our formal training programs are designed to enhance the long-term development of our attorneys. As an accredited provider of continuing legal education in New York, the firm offered 146 CLE programs last year. Nationally recognized experts are invited to teach workshops on general skills like contract drafting, brief writing, negotiation and deposition skills. In addition, the firm's senior attorneys teach more specialized seminars for the junior lawyers in their practice areas.

We understand that there is no substitute for hands-on experience. Through direct exposure to all aspects of a project, including the client's views and goals, associates can mature at a faster pace and with greater personal satisfaction than would be possible in a more rigidly structured environment.

Attorneys are encouraged, at firm expense, to attend outside seminars sponsored by bar associations and private continuing legal education providers. The firm pays all costs incurred in connection with attendance at approved continuing legal education programs.