Friday, May 29, 2009

2010 Post-Graduate Fellowship Opportunities

Community Lawyering in New York City

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a non-profit civil rights law firm, is accepting applications from candidates for post-graduate fellowship opportunities. The Fellow will contribute to social justice work at NYLPI beginning in the fall of 2010.

Organizations such as Equal Justice Works and the Skadden Fellowship Foundation each provide two-year fellowships to recent law graduates or clerks who are motivated to work at a public interest law office such as NYLPI, which will sponsor the prospective fellow.
NYLPI seeks highly accomplished, progressive, community-minded candidates with excellent research and writing skills to advance the goals of our programs. All public interest fellowship programs are very competitive, and applicants need time to develop project proposals and complete applications. NYLPI thus strongly encourages all interested applicants to apply as early as possible. Candidates should submit a cover letter, a resume, a writing sample, and three references (including daytime telephone numbers) to Amy Lalich at fellowships@nylpi.org as soon as possible but no later than August 1, 2009. Candidates should also complete the following online form at the time that they submit their applications:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cElqUEJ3enBTbjg0aFFibkdFTEFVYnc6MA.
NYLPI is accepting project proposals for all of our program areas, with a preference for projects related to disability rights or health justice.