{"id":1395,"date":"2010-11-10T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2010-11-10T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T14:14:23","slug":"university-of-miami-legal-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"University of Miami School of Law Legal Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Miami School of Law recently established Legal Corps,  an ambitious postgraduate fellowship program which will place recent law  graduates in government agencies, public interest organizations, and  judicial chambers in Florida and throughout the country.  The recent  economic crisis has resulted in a reduction of funding for public sector  agencies while the demand for legal services has dramatically  increased. The goal of Legal Corps is to fill the gaps at these  understaffed agencies by providing them with some of the most prepared,  skilled and diverse individuals entering the legal community today.  Below are responses to some of the most frequently asked questions about  the fellowship program.<\/p>\n<p>J.D. graduates of the University of Miami School of Law&#8217;s December 2009  and May 2010 classes who have been admitted to a state bar or are  awaiting &#8220;character and fitness&#8221; results are eligible to apply for a  Legal Corps fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.miami.edu\/cdo\/legal_corps.php\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Corps website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Miami School of Law recently established Legal Corps, an ambitious postgraduate fellowship program which will place recent law graduates in government agencies, public interest organizations, and judicial chambers in Florida and throughout the country. The recent economic crisis has resulted in a reduction of funding for public sector agencies while the demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-post-graduate-opportunities","category-public-interest-opportunities","category-scholarships-and-fellowships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}