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Deadline Approaching – Summer 2016 FASPE Ethics Fellowship for Law Students

Deadline Approaching – Summer Ethics Fellowship for Law Students! The application deadline for the 2016 FASPE Law fellowship is one month away. What: The Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) Law uses the conduct of lawyers and judges during the Holocaust and in Nazi Germany as a launching point for an intensive study of contemporary ethical issues in the […]

Public Counsel Now Accepting Applications for its Summer 2016 Clerkship Program

Public Counsel has nine exciting law projects and several sub-projects that accept summer interns. The projects include a sophisticated appellate law practice, a comprehensive children’s rights program that handles school condition and discipline matters, special education cases, and adoptions, a community development team that supports affordable housing development and assists non-profit and small businesses with […]

Animal Legal Defense Fund Summer 2016 ALDF Criminal Justice Program Legal Clerkship

When: The clerkships are full-time, during summer 2016, for a period of 3 months (approximately 12 weeks) with a flexible starting date (dependent upon the student’s schedule).  Location: ALDF’s Portland, Oregon office. Responsibilities: The clerks will be closely supervised and trained by top experts in animal law. Clerks will learn how to review cruelty reports, communicate with […]

Animal Legal Defense Fund Summer 2016 ALDF Litigation Program Clerkship

When: The clerkships are full-time, during summer 2016, for a period of 3 months (approximately 12 weeks) with a flexible starting date (dependent upon the student’s schedule).  Location: ALDF’s Cotati, California office. Responsibilities: The clerks will be closely supervised and trained by top experts in animal law. Clerks will complete legal research, work with ALDF’s litigation department […]

Internet Public Interest Opportunities Program (IPIOP) Clerkships

The EPIC Internet Public Interest Opportunities Program (IPIOP) is an intensive legal internship with EPIC that is held during the summer, fall, and spring terms. IPIOP seeks outstanding law students interested in public interest issues related to the Internet to spend a summer or a semester at the EPIC office in Washington.   Description: Learn […]

The 2016 EPIC Law Fellowship

EPIC invites outstanding applications for the 2016 EPIC Law Fellowship. EPIC encourages applications from law students graduating in 2016, recent graduates, and judicial clerks. The EPIC Law Fellow will fill an integral role in EPIC’s Washington, DC office. The Fellow will work on various EPIC Projects in areas such as Administrative Law, Appellate Advocacy, Consumer […]

2016 DEBORAH T. PORITZ SUMMER PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ) invites applications from first and second year law students for the Deborah T. Poritz Summer Public Interest Legal Fellowship Program beginning in May 2016.  In New Jersey, this has long been the premier opportunity for students committed to or considering public interest and poverty law to learn about the […]

K&L Gates Public Interest Fellowship Program of the K&L Gates LLP Fund 2015 – 2016 Application Guidelines

The Pittsburgh Foundation and K&L Gates LLP are proud to offer the K&L Gates Public Interest Fellowship Program. The fellowship was established in September 1999 to offer law students the opportunity to assist public service organizations located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2016, the program will award one successful candidate a fellowship that enables them to […]

The Open Society Fellowship

The Topic of the Project: The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. Among the Foundations’ core areas of concern are human rights, government transparency, access to information, access to justice, the promotion of civil society and social inclusion. Project themes should cut across these […]

THE BPI POLIKOFF–GAUTREAUX FELLOWSHIP FOR A PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYER OR POLICY ANALYST

Application Deadline: October 16, 2015. Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI), a Chicago-based nonprofit law and policy center, seeks a recent law or public policy graduate to serve as the Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow for one year, renewable for a second, beginning in Summer or Fall 2016. The Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellowship offers the opportunity for […]