Applications are currently being accepted from students entering their third year of law school for the Hanna S. Cohn Equal Justice Fellowship \u2010 an exciting, two\u2010year, public interest fellowship opportunity. The Fellowship is a full\u2010time position for the term beginning September, 2013 and ending August 2015.<\/p>\n
The Fellow will be placed at the Empire Justice Center, a statewide, multi\u2010issue, multi\u2010strategy non\u2010profit law firm focused on changing the \u201csystems\u201d within which poor and low income families live. The Fellow will work with advocates in Empire Justice Center\u2019s Rochester, New York office representing low\u2010income clients in complex areas of litigation and other types of advocacy.<\/p>\n
The Fellowship is being funded in memory of Hanna S. Cohn, a remarkable attorney who began her 25\u2010year career in poverty law as a public interest fellow. Hanna was the Executive Director of Volunteer Legal Services Project (VLSP) a pro bono<\/em> program that, because of Hanna\u2019s leadership, is recognized as one of the best of its kind in the country.<\/p>\n This opportunity is offered for another two\u2010year term.<\/p>\n Applications are available for download from the website<\/a>.\u00a0To access the direct link to the application, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Applications are currently being accepted from students entering their third year of law school for the Hanna S. Cohn Equal Justice Fellowship \u2010 an exciting, two\u2010year, public interest fellowship opportunity. The Fellowship is a full\u2010time position for the term beginning September, 2013 and ending August 2015. The Fellow will be placed at the Empire Justice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,17,7,10,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2l-information","category-3l-information","category-general-announcements","category-public-interest-opportunities","category-scholarships-and-fellowships","category-school-year-opportunities","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4012,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}