National LGBT Bar Association-Prudential Fellowship Program
About the National LGBT Bar Association and Prudential:
The National LGBT Bar Association is a national association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliated lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgender legal organizations. The LGBT Bar promotes justice in and through the legal profession for the LGBT community in all its diversity. For more information about the LGBT Bar, please visit the website.
Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company’s well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential’s businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.
The National LGBT Bar Association, in partnership with Prudential, is seeking candidates for the Prudential Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program is an 18-month rotational program. Fellows will receive a salary and will be eligible for health benefits and a yearly bonus. Interest or knowledge about the financial services, insurance and annuity industry would be beneficial. Fellows will work independently on research projects or coordinate projects assigned by internal lawyers. Fellows will rotate approximately every 6 months into a new area of the law department.
Qualifications:
- JD and bar admission required
- Minimum GPA of 3.0
- Excellent verbal and writing skills (writing sample required)
- Strong conceptual thinking, analytical and interpersonal skills required as well as operating independently
- Recent law school graduate
- At least 18 months of full-time or full-time equivalent prior work experience
How to Apply:
To apply, you must submit a resume and a writing sample to:
D’Arcy Kemnitz, Esq.
Executive Director
National LGBT Bar Association
1301 K Street, NW, Suite 1100 East Tower
Washington, DC 20005
202-637-7661
Prudential@lgbtbar.org
Please indicate “Prudential Fellowship Program” in the subject line of all correspondence. All materials must be received by 12:00 p.m. ET on November 29, 2011.
All applicants must be available for interviews between Wednesday, November 30, and Friday, December 2.