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Erin Archerd
Issue date: 2/22/07 Section: News
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This is the third article in a series on public interest fellowships. The first article in the series interviewed 3L Skadden 2007 Fellows Sarah Bolling, Emily Kernan, and Spring Miller. Next week will highlight winners of other 2007 fellowships.
It is never too late to apply for a Skadden Public Interest Fellowship, a one-year, renewable fellowship that pays individuals $46,000/year plus benefits to work, develop and implement a project with the organization of their choice. Harvard Law School topped the lists again this year with six fellows, for a total of 96 since the fellowship began in 1988.
Although eligibility for many fellowships ends upon graduation from law school, judicial clerks of any age can apply for the prestigious fellowship. This year's batch of HLS graduate law clerks, all '06, will be spanning the country in their public service work.
Michael Stein was drawn to his project at the National Association of the Deaf in Silver Spring, MD out of a desire to work in disability law. He had learned about NAD because he is deaf, and although he worked at a firm his 2L summer, he spent two weeks in August with the organization. One of his co-workers there urged him to apply for a fellowship.
"During my brief time at NAD, I got to know the two lawyers who work there," said Stein. "One of the lawyers, Marc Charmatz, told me that NAD had two previous Skadden fellows and strongly encouraged me to apply for the fellowship."
Jesse Newmark, a 2004 Chayes Fellow at the World Bank in D.C., had experience working in Oakland, CA before he came to law school. He was as a factory worker, public school teacher, and social worker and knew the school's director as well as people who worked for Centro Legal, the clinic that will be supervising his work at East Oakland Community High School.
"In fact, I'm especially excited because I used to teach some of the students who will make up the senior class at the high school when they were in junior high!" exclaimed Newmark. "So, although the project has developed a little, this is really exactly what I planned on doing when I first came to law school. I can't believe it actually worked out that way."
It is never too late to apply for a Skadden Public Interest Fellowship, a one-year, renewable fellowship that pays individuals $46,000/year plus benefits to work, develop and implement a project with the organization of their choice. Harvard Law School topped the lists again this year with six fellows, for a total of 96 since the fellowship began in 1988.
Although eligibility for many fellowships ends upon graduation from law school, judicial clerks of any age can apply for the prestigious fellowship. This year's batch of HLS graduate law clerks, all '06, will be spanning the country in their public service work.
Michael Stein was drawn to his project at the National Association of the Deaf in Silver Spring, MD out of a desire to work in disability law. He had learned about NAD because he is deaf, and although he worked at a firm his 2L summer, he spent two weeks in August with the organization. One of his co-workers there urged him to apply for a fellowship.
"During my brief time at NAD, I got to know the two lawyers who work there," said Stein. "One of the lawyers, Marc Charmatz, told me that NAD had two previous Skadden fellows and strongly encouraged me to apply for the fellowship."
Jesse Newmark, a 2004 Chayes Fellow at the World Bank in D.C., had experience working in Oakland, CA before he came to law school. He was as a factory worker, public school teacher, and social worker and knew the school's director as well as people who worked for Centro Legal, the clinic that will be supervising his work at East Oakland Community High School.
"In fact, I'm especially excited because I used to teach some of the students who will make up the senior class at the high school when they were in junior high!" exclaimed Newmark. "So, although the project has developed a little, this is really exactly what I planned on doing when I first came to law school. I can't believe it actually worked out that way."
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