January 2015, Volume II, Issue 2
Pro Bono Opportunities
Legal Aid Society Forum on 1/22
NLG 3 rd Annual Kinoy Awards
PILF Annual Auction 2015
Yale Law School Lawyering for Social Change Conference
Public Interest Career Fairs
Summer Internships and Fellowships
Post-Graduate Fellowships
PRO BONO UPDATE
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Join Rutgers Camden law students for an exciting new pro bono opportunity: the
Hurricane Sandy Alternative Spring Break (March 15-22). Participating students devote 30 hours of pro bono work during Spring Break (March 15-March 22). Interns will provide 30
5 bono work will enable students to perform legal research and writing, client intake and interview, and factual investigation for work on behalf of families and individuals harmed by Hurricane Sandy. Assignments will be personalized to the law student’s interests, preferences, and skills.
Participants may log up to 30 hours of pro bono service toward pro bono recognition upon graduation. This opportunity is open to ALL students, including 1Ls. Why not add experience to your resume, help clients in need, and log a substantial number of pro bono hours this spring break? You'll be glad you did! Submit a 2-3 sentence statement of interest, your resume, and your unofficial transcript no later than January 22 at 5:00 PM to Susan
Feathers, Pro Bono and Public Interest Coordinator, at feathers@kinoy.rutgers.edu
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Applicants will be selected subject to LSNJ standards and discretion.

Streetlaw: Exciting Opportunity to Teach @ North Star Academy
Informational Session: January 26, 2015 @ 12:30 p.m.
This year, Streetlaw continues to partner with LEGAL OUTREACH in collaboration with
North Star Academy Charter School through which law students will provide law related education and coaching to middle school students. The program runs from February 13-
April 22, 2015 and requires an (18) hour time commitment over the course of nine weeks – i.e. students will teach two hours per week for nine weeks. We encourage students to participate in the program, which will provide you with service experience, while also assisting students with developing their public speaking, writing, and analytical skills. To participate in this program, you must attend an upcoming informational program on
Monday, January 26 at 12:30 p.m. in the People’s Electric Lounge on the 4 th Floor in the
Clinic .
PUBLIC INTEREST PROGRAMS
The Legal Aid Society: Making the Case of Humanity
Thursday, January 22 at 4:30 pm
The Legal Aid Society of New York City, the oldest and largest legal services organization in the nation, is dedicated to providing comprehensive legal services to low-income New
Yorkers in civil and criminal matters. A panel of lawyers from the Legal Aid society will explore internship and post-graduate opportunities at the Legal Aid Society in NYC. This panel discussion will feature representatives from the Juvenile Rights Division, Civil
Practice and Criminal Defense Practice areas. Confirmed speakers include the following:
 Ricardo Granderson, Director of Recruitment
 Dawn Mitchell, Attorney-in-Charge, Juvenile Rights Practice, Bronx
 Marie Momrun, Staff Attorney, Civil Practice, Queens
 Roy Wasserman, Staff Attorney, Criminal Practice, Brooklyn
Following a panel discussion, there will be a question and answer session. In addition, to discussing their own practice, the lawyers will offer tips for pursuing public interest internships and fellowships. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity! Spots are limited. Please
RSVP to Susan Feathers by Monday, January 19, 2015 at 12 noon to confirm your spot.

SAVE THE DATE: National Lawyers Guild Sponsors 3rd Annual Arthur Kinoy Awards on 2/5 at 6:30 p.m.
Please join the Rutgers-Newark National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on Thursday, February 5 at 6:30 pm in the atrium for the Third Annual Arthur Kinoy Awards. We will honor
Rutgers Professor Lennox Hinds and Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York
Civil Liberties Union, two Rutgers School of Law–Newark alumni who exemplify Arthur
Kinoy's spirit of people's lawyering.
SAVE THE DATE: The Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) Annual Auction on
Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 6:30 P.M.
The Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) is a non-profit organization that raises money for students who pursue unpaid, public interest internships during the coming summer.
Our main fundraising event is the PILF Annual Auction.
2015 marks the 30 th Anniversary of PILF. To commemorate the occasion, we will be honoring Dean Fran Bouchoux, who will accept her award on behalf of PILF Co-Founder,
Marsha Wenk. Dean Bouchoux has served as co-chair of the National Association of Women
Judges Annual Conference and currently serves as co-chair of the organization’s Amicus
Committee. She previously served as the vice chair of the New Jersey Supreme Court
Committee on Women in the Courts and was past secretary of the New Jersey Volunteer
Lawyers for the Arts.
Tickets to the Auction include dinner and an open bar, and will be on sale in the coming weeks. The Auction will begin promptly at 6:30 P.M. For further questions, or to make a donation, please email rutgers.newark.pilf@gmail.com
. Thank you for supporting Rutgers
Law-Newark public interest students!
The 21st Rebellious Lawyering Conference at Yale Law School, February 20-21, 2015.
RebLaw, the nation's largest student-run, public interest conference, brings together practitioners, law students, and community activists from around the country to discuss innovative, progressive approaches to the law and social change. The conference, grounded in the spirit of Gerald Lopez's Rebellious Lawyering , seeks to build a community of law students, practitioners, and activists seeking to work in the service of social change movements and to challenge hierarchies of race, wealth, gender, and expertise within legal practice and education. Panels and Workshop topics this year include: Using Law to Occupy
Wall Street, The Fight against Mass Incarceration, Domestic Violence and Transnationality,
Surveillance and the Criminal Justice System, Unaccompanied Minors and the
Humanitarian Crisis at the Border, and Wage Justice. The conference provides an opportunity to meet lawyers, students, and activists, while learning about progressive

approaches to lawyering. Registration and Housing: Registration for the conference is available through this website: http://www.yale.edu/reblaw . In addition, students seeking housing accommodations during their stay, should register by January 31 st athttp://www.yale.edu/reblaw/housing.html
PUBLIC INTERST CAREEER FAIRS
NYU Public Interest Career Fair 2015 Update
The 2015 Public Interest Legal Career Fair will take place on February, 5, 2015 and
February, 6, 2015 at NYU School of Law. The Fair is a unique opportunity to meet with over 250 NYC and national area public sector employers who are hiring for both summer and post-graduate opportunities.
Already registered?
Be sure to check your on-line schedule regularly . Your schedule will be available on-line in early February.
Didn’t register?
We encourage students who did not register for the NYU Fair to attend. A large number of employers staffing informational tables at the Fair do have job openings, and many employers conduct "informal" interviews through Table Talk . Even if you are not granted individual interviews, you can still derive benefits, including summer and permanent job possibilities, from this program. The 2015 Public Interest Legal Career
Fair will take place on Thursday, February, 5, 2015 and Friday, February, 6, 2015 at
NYU School of Law.
Second Annual Federal Legal Careers Panel: January 23, 2015
The Second Annual Federal Legal Careers Fair will be held at 890 Broadway, NYC on
Friday, January 23, 2015 . The event will include panels from various federal agencies discussing their career experience; a presentation on navigating USAJobs website and information tables.
In addition, the Fair provides students with the opportunity to meet with representatives from a broad range of employers, including the Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Department of Labor, Department of the Navy, Environmental Protection Agency, Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, Federal Trade Commission (tentative), Second Circuit Staff Attorney’s Office,
Securities and Exchange Commission (tentative), Social Security Administration, and
Southern District of New York Pro Se Clerk’s Office.
Registration is required; there is no fee to attend. To register, please email your name,

law school, and year of graduation or expected graduation to
NY.OGC.FedFairRSVP@ssa.gov
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SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
Maggio Immigrants’ Rights Summer Fellowship Program
The Fellowship was established by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL), and the National
Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIP/NLG), to commemorate the life and legal contributions of Michael Maggio, and to continue his pursuit for equality and peace. Since its inception in 2009, the Michael Maggio Immigrants’ Rights Summer
Fellowship Program has awarded a dedicated law school student each year the opportunity to engage in a self-initiated project that strengthens the student’s commitment to advocacy, and promotes justice and equality for vulnerable immigrant groups. The Fellowship is a wonderful opportunity for any law school student who is driven to raise awareness and fight for the underserved immigrant community.
The Fellowship awards $2,500 to a law student to work on an immigration related studentinitiated project. Applicants must submit a project proposal with an organization willing to host the student for 10 weeks. The student's proposal must include a collaborative plan with the host organization to partially match the Fellowship award in the amount of
$1,500. This matching may be done by either direct stipend by the host organization or through other means, e.g., law school public interest funding, independent fundraising, etc.
This ensures that the student will receive a total funding in the amount of $4,000.
The deadline for the 2015 Fellowship is Friday, February 13, 2015 . To learn more about the Fellowship and to download the application form, visit www.maggiofellowship.org
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POST GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS: Upcoming Deadlines
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: FRIEDMAN CLINICAL
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
The Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics of The George Washington University Law School are accepting additional applications for our graduate clinical fellowship program for the academic years of 2015-17. In recognition of the generous gift of Philip Friedman, the
Fellows are known as Friedman Fellows. Friedman Fellows obtain LL.M. degrees while examining and engaging in clinical legal education and public interest law.
The 2015-17 Friedman Fellowships begin in the summer of 2015. Each fellowship is affiliated with a specific law school clinic. Although the various clinics provide the fellows diverse responsibilities and experiences, each provides the Fellow with opportunities to co-teach and co-supervise, alongside experienced clinical faculty, the law students enrolled in the clinic.
The Friedman Fellowship program enables every Fellow to learn about clinical education and public interest lawyering through the practice of engaging in each, teaching and supervising law students engaged in these endeavors, and participating in a program of study in which these are the primary topics of inquiry. In the process, Fellows receive mentorship and support from the clinical faculty and administration, and the law school in general.
Fellows enroll in two year-long courses in Clinical Teaching and Scholarship taught by the
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and other clinical faculty. As part of this course sequence,
Fellows receive specific instruction and guidance in teaching and supervising law students, and in writing a publishable thesis. Fellows also enroll part-time in other law school classes, and receive an LL.M. degree upon completion of the class and thesis requirements of the LL.M. program.
Qualifications
We are currently seeking applications from candidates with strong academic, clinical, and lawyering experience. Fellows receive an annual stipend between $45,000 and $50,000, tuition remission for the LL.M. program, health insurance and other benefits, and possible student loan deferment. Fellows must be members of a state bar. Candidates who are not members of the D.C. Bar must be eligible for immediate waiver into the D.C. Bar.
Application Instructions:
Each applicant should send a letter of interest, a resume, a list of references, and a complete law school transcript by February 2, 2015 to Associate Dean Phyllis Goldfarb. The preferred submission method is by email to clinicadmin@law.gwu.edu
. In the alternative, applications can be mailed to the Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics c/o Executive
Assistant Norma Lamont, The George Washington University Law School, 2000 G St. NW,

Washington, DC 20052. The George Washington University Law School is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity employer. The University undertakes special efforts to employ a diverse workforce.
Application Deadline: 02/02/2015
WELLSTONE FELLOWSHIP: HEALTH ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP
Job Description: Through The Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice, Families USA hopes to expand the pool of talented social justice advocates from underrepresented economic, racial, and ethnic minority groups, including the American Indian & Alaska Native, Asian
American, Black/African American, Latino, and Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander communities. Wellstone fellows’ primary responsibilities include drafting talking points, blogs, fact sheets, and other publications as well as developing content for the Families USA website and email lists that promote health equity and the reduction and elimination of disparities in health and health care. During the year, the fellow will learn about health reform implementation, health equity, the private insurance market, health system transformation and other important health policy issues.
Application Instructions: http://familiesusa.org/about-us/careers/wellstonefellowship
Application Deadline: 02/06/2015
DONALD M. WILSON FELLOWSHIP, ROBERT F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE &
HUMAN RIGHTS
Job Description: The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights (RFK Center) was founded as a living memorial to Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Ever since, the RFK Center has honored journalists, authors, and human rights activists who, often at great personal risk and sacrifice, are on the frontlines of the international movement for human rights and social justice.
Duties for this position include, but are not limited to:
• Conduct factual research and draft memoranda on the human rights situation in countries of interest to the Center and on thematic issues (e.g., the right to freedom of expression, right to nationality);
• Conduct research on the application of international human rights norms to country conditions, developments in the domestic legal systems of specific countries and their implications for human rights, and other questions;
• Prepare documents in support of litigation before international tribunals (e.g. Inter-
American Commission on Human Rights, African Commission on Human and Peoples'

Rights, UN Treaty Bodies), and in support of advocacy before governments, international organizations, and U.N. special procedures;
• Help maintain and manage communication with clients, human rights defenders, and civil society partners around the world in support of joint litigation and advocacy;
• Participate in and contribute to litigation and advocacy strategies;
• Attend and report on briefings, Congressional hearings, symposia and other meetings;
• Monitor sources of information on countries and issues of concern to the Center; and collect, organize and analyze relevant information;
• Work closely with the RFK Partners for Human Rights Director and programmatic staff to develop long-term strategies, legal actions, and advocacy campaigns to support RFK
Laureates and other human rights defenders;
• Provide administrative support to Center Staff on an as-needed basis;
• Limited travel (domestic and/or international) may also be required.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have experience with regional and international human rights law and norms; working knowledge of the United Nations treaty body system and/or the regional human rights mechanisms (e.g. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, etc.); working knowledge of domestic legislative and human rights systems; an ability to maintain active contacts with international civil society as well as key stakeholders in the aforementioned systems; an ability to master complex human rights issues under tight deadlines; and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
A Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree (or foreign equivalent) is required. We particularly encourage recent law school graduates (2013-2014) and those graduating in Spring 2015 to apply.
Fluency in Spanish, French, and/or Arabic is helpful but not required.
Annual Salary: $45,000 + excellent benefits package
Application Instructions: Please e-mail a cover letter, resume, brief writing sample
(preferably related to international human rights law), and a list of 3 references to:
Hiring Manager
Subject line: Donald M. Wilson Fellow jobs@rfkcenter.org
Contact Information:
Hannah Wheelwright, Phone: (202) 463-7575, ext 235, wheelwright@rfkcenter.org
1300 19th St. NW Suite 750, Washington, D.C., DC 20036
Application Deadline: 02/02/2015