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Equal Justice Works
Katrina Legal Fellowships Now Available
Equal Justice Works has established the Katrina Legal Fellowships Program to
send nine experienced public interest lawyers to the Gulf Coast for two years,
working in the areas hardest hit by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This new
Fellowships Program will place lawyers at organizations located in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Texas in order to help the hundreds of thousands of people
left without homes, jobs and social services due to the damage from the
hurricanes.
How to Apply
If you are interested in becoming a Katrina Legal Fellow, please visit our
website at www.equaljusticeworks.org/disaster-relief/index.php for detailed
position descriptions, benefits and application instructions. Please apply to
our host organizations directly. Equal Justice Works will not accept résumés.
Katrina Legal Fellowships Host Organizations
Advocacy Center - New Orleans, Louisiana
Lone Star Legal Aid - Beaumont or Houston, Texas
Louisiana Capital Assistance Center - New Orleans, Louisiana
Mississippi Center for Justice - Biloxi , Mississippi
Mississippi Center for Legal Services - Gulfport/Pascagoula, Mississippi
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance / National Immigration Law Center -
Biloxi and Jackson, Mississippi
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (benefits and health care project) - New
Orleans, Louisiana
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (housing project) - New Orleans, Louisiana
Texas Appleseed - Austin , Texas
This program is part of the Equal Justice Works Katrina Initiative, made
possible through the support of a $1 million matching grant from the JEHT
Foundation. For more information about the Katrina Legal Fellowships Program,
please contact katrina-fellowships@equaljusticeworks.org
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Youth Law Center Seeks Candidates for Fellowship Position
The Youth Law Center is a national public interest law firm with offices in
San Francisco and Washington, DC. For more than 25 years, the Center has
advocated on behalf of vulnerable and troubled children throughout the
country. Information on the Center and its activities is available on its
website, www.ylc.org. This position is in the San Francisco office.
The Youth Law Center has been awarded a grant from the David B. Gold
Foundation to support a one-year fellowship for a mid-career attorney working
in California in legal services, the public sector, a public defender's office
or otherwise providing legal services to low-income clients.
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
Have three or more years of experience in providing direct services to low
income clients; Have a commitment to return to providing legal services to
low-income clients in California after the fellowship; Have a relationship
with a legal services office or other law office representing low-income
clients in California that can be maintained throughout the fellowship; and Be
prepared to work from the Youth Law Center's San Francisco Office.
Experience with the juvenile justice or child welfare system is not necessary.
Work:
The areas of work will include protecting children in foster care and the
adult and juvenile justice systems from abuse and dangerous conditions;
ensuring that government and other agencies provide support and services
(e.g., health, mental health, education) to enable children in the foster care
and justice systems to become healthy and productive adults; and ensuring that
children in foster care and justice systems are connected to permanent
families and to their communities. Advocacy activities will include policy
advocacy, litigation, legislative and administrative work, public education
and media advocacy, legal and non-legal writing, training, and technical
assistance.
This fellowship is intended to be a learning opportunity for the fellow and
her/his colleagues in his/her sending program or legal community.
Application Process:
Send or email a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and a list of three
references (one must be your program director) to Mamie Yee; Youth Law Center;
417 Montgomery Street, Suite 900;
San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 543-3349, ext. 3914; myee@ylc.org, by March 1,
2006.
Time Frame:
The Youth Law Center will negotiate the start date of the fellowship with the
applicant and his/her current employer. The intent is to begin before June of
2006.
We strongly encourage people of color, and individuals who themselves were in
the child welfare or juvenile justice system when they were young, to apply
for this position.
The Youth Law Center does not unlawfully discriminate against any person on
the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap,
veteran status, or sexual orientation.
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Courtroom Advocacy Project Spring Training
Get courtroom experience while helping victims of domestic violence
More women in New York City are killed by their husbands or boyfriends as a
result of domestic violence than by any other crime. Victims of domestic
violence typically enter family court seeking Orders of Protection against
their abusers on the heels of an incident of severe violence. They are often
frightened, isolated from family and friends by their batterers, and at a
heightened risk of life-threatening retaliation.
The Courtroom Advocates Project (CAP) is a unique program that recruits,
trains,
supervises and mentors law students and other volunteers to fill this gap in
advocacy, education and services in New York City's Family Courts. CAP
provides
victims with trained, supervised law students who assist them with the legal
advocacy, education, and safety planning they need to start new lives.
In order to participate in CAP, you must complete a mandatory 5 hour
training. Brooklyn Law School will be holding its CAP training on
February 3, 2006 from 1:30 pm- 6:30pm, room 501. *The training is open to all
BLS students, and students from other law schools in the area.* If you cannot
attend this training, alternate trainings are available at other locations.
If you have any questions, or would like to attend an alternate training,
please
contact Kelly Kocinski at kelly.kocinski@brooklaw.edu
Kelly Kocinski
LAAW
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Asian Pacific American Bar Association
of Los Angeles County (APABA)
in conjunction with the
Japanese American Bar Association
Korean American Bar Association
Philippine American Bar Association
South Asian Bar Association
Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
invites you to attend our New Admittee Reception
Join fellow Asian and Pacific American attorneys
in welcoming our newest members of the bar
Thursday, February 2, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
at Oiwake Restaurant
122 Japanese Village Plaza Mall (2nd Floor)
Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles
Complimentary for all new Bar Admittees and law students
$10.00 for all others.
Admission includes buffet dinner, non-alcoholic drinks and karaoke.
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GMU Law to host Judge Hong re The Importance of Public Service
Message
GMUSL APALSA invites Judge Jeannie Hong, Tuesday Jan 31
The GMUSL Asian Pacific American Law Student Association is honored to host
Judge Jeannie J. Hong of the United States District Court of Maryland on
Tuesday, January 31. Judge Hong will be speaking about the importance of
public service. Everyone is cordially invited to the presentation which
will be held in Room 121 at 5.15pm. Pizza will be provided.
Judge Hong was appointed as a designate Judge to the Baltimore City District
Court in July 2002. She was sworn in on August 14, 2002. Judge Hong's
appointment is historical as she is the first Asian Pacific American Judge
in the State of Maryland. She graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts
degree from the University of Virginia and in 1992 earned her Doctorate of
Jurisprudence degree from the Washington College of Law/American University.
In 1993, she worked for one year as a staff attorney for the Maryland
Department of Human Resources, Child Care Administration. For eight years,
she worked as an Assistant State's Attorney for the Baltimore City State's
Attorney's Office. In 1999, Governor Parris N. Glendening appointed Judge
Hong to the Maryland Advisory Commission on Asian American Affairs.
Additionally, she received Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's
Women in Government Service Award of Excellence. In 2000, Judge Hong was a
Maryland Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles,
California.
Please respond to cng1@gmu.edu with any questions or comments.
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Entertaining interview with Wentworth Miller (LEEWS) that highlights the differences between writing for law school and the bar exam. Visit: www.clsj1994.com. |
