Nationwide Fellowships

A postgraduate fellowship provides a way to gain valuable legal experience while offering support in an area that is typically under-funded and understaffed. Fellowships are typically one to two year positions following graduation with salaries ranging from $12,000 to $40,000. Application deadlines typically range from September through April. Some agencies accept applicants continuously throughout the year.

Information and application materials for fellowships for law graduates can be found in the three "Fellowships" (purple tag) binders located in the Career Services Office or through the fellowship sponsors' websites. Additional information can be found in Yale Law School's Fellowship and Grant Resources and Fellowship Application Tips found at www.pslawnet.org.

Updated—05/2005

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Fellowship Name and Type	Deadline	Location	Salary
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ACLU-Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow	September	Nationwide	Not stated
Americans United for Separation of Church and State	February	Washington, DC	$31,000 & benefits
Asian Law Caucus (See Skadden)	September	San Francisco, CA	Skadden etc.
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Berkeley Law Foundation - Public Interest	February	Bay Area/various US cities	$30,000
BetTzedek Legal Services	January	Los Angeles, CA	$40,000
Bristow Fellowship (Justice Dept.)	October	Washington, DC	salary grade level (GS12)
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California Executive Fellowship	February	Sacramento, CA	$1,882/mo. & medical benefits
California Senate - Associates Program	February	Sacramento, CA	$1,882/mo. & medical benefits
California State Assembly Fellowship Program	February	Sacramento, CA	$1,882/mo. & medical benefits
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute	March	Washington, DC	$34,000 + benefits
Consumers Union Economic Justice - Public Interest	September	San Francisco, CA	$34,000 + benefits
Coro Southern California - Public Policy	February	Various Pos.	stipend
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation - Public Interest	Not stated	Sacramento, CA	$40,000
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Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund(Sierra Club)	November	National	$12,000
Environmental Protection Agency	October	Boston, MA	(GS11/12)
Equal Justice Works-Routes A & B	September/October	Nationwide	$32,500 + benefits & loan
Equal Rights Advocates - Ruth Chance	January	San Francisco	$35,500 + benefits
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Farmers' Legal Action Group	September	St. Paul, MN
Ford Foundation Program Assistant	December	New York, NY	$34,000
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shrive & Jacobson (MALDEF, NAACP)	October	New York, NY	Varies
Fulbright Program - Cultural Concerns	August	Worldwide	Not stated
G ^
Georgetown U. Law Center - Appellate Litigation	December	Washington, DC	$36,370 + benefits
Georgetown U. Law Center - Center for Applied Legal Studies	December	Washington, DC	$36,370 + benefits
Georgetown U. Law Center - Federal Legislation Clinic	December	Washington, DC	$36,370
Georgetown U. Law Center - Institute for Public Representation	November	Washington, DC	$36,370
Georgetown U. Law Center - Juvenile Justice (Prettyman Stiller)	December	Washington, DC	$36,370
Georgetown U. Law Center - Teaching - DC Street Law	December	Washington, DC	$36,370
Georgetown U. Law Center - Women's Law & Public Policy	November	Washington, DC	$36,370
Greenwall Fellowship - Bioethics	March	Baltimore, MD	$31,000 ($62,000 for 2 yrs.)
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Harvard Teaching Fellowships	February	Cambridge, MA	$25,000
Homebase (See Skadden)	October	San Francisco, CA	$37,500
Human Rights Watch	October	New York, NY	$35.000 & benefits
Human Rights Watch(ACLU, Aryeh Neier)	January	New York, NY	$35.000-$40,000 & benefits
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J ^
Judicial Administration Fellowship	February	Sacramento, CA	$1,882/mo. & medical
Judicial Fellows Program	November	Washington, DC	$93,772 (GS15)
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L ^
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area - Thurgood Marshall	February	San Francisco, CA	Not Stated
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law	October	Washington, DC	$42,000 + LRAP
League of California Cities	February	Sacramento, CA	$40,000 + benefits
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles	Early fall	Los Angeles, CA	(Americorps)
Legal Aid Society of New York - Public Interest	July	New York, NY	Varies
Lindesmith Center	January	San Francisco / New York	$32,500 ( Soros)
M ^
Mexican Amer. Legal Defense & Education Fund	October	New York, NY	$101,000/$30,000 (2 yr.) (See also Fried, Frank et al. Fellowship)
N ^
NAACP Legal Defense & Eduction	October	New York, NY	Depends on Fellowship (See Fried, Frank, Harris Shrive & Jacobson)
National Center for Youth Law	September	San Francisco, CA	Skadden / Soros
National Center on Philanthropy and the Law	November	New York (NYU)	$33,800 + benefits
National Institutes of Health-Bioethics Fellowship	January	Bethesda, MD	Not stated
Natural Resources Law Institute - Northwestern School of Law	March	Portland, OR	$25,000
NYU-Vera Institute of Justice (Rockefeller)	November	New York, NY	$41,600+benefits
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P ^
Presidential Management Intern Program	October	Washington, DC	$35,000 (GS-9)
Public Citizen (Abraham Fucsberg)	September	Washington DC	$31,000-$33,000
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R ^
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Jack Nelson Legal Fellowship)	February	Arlington, VA	$30,000 & benefits
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Robert R. McCormick Foundation)	April	Arlington, VA	$40,000+benefits
Rockefeller Fund-(See NYU-Vera Institute of Justice)	December	New York, NY	$43,300+benefits
S ^
Skadden Fellows - Public Interest	October	Nationwide	$37,500
Soros Justice Fellowships	October	Nationwide	$37,500-$70,000
Southern Poverty Law Center	November	Montgomery, AL	Salary, medical & housing
T ^
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice	Fall	Washington, DC	Salary & benefits
U ^
United States Environmental Protection Agency	November	Philadelphia, PA	$45,117 (GS11/GS12)
V ^
Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies	January	Nashville, TN	Not stated
W ^
White House Fellowships - National Government	December	Washington, DC	$83,000 (GS14)
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