Fellowship Candidates

Application Process

Third-year law students, judicial clerks, and other recent law school graduates are invited to apply for post-graduate public interest fellowship. Interested persons should contact WLP by mid-August one full year preceding the year of commencement of the fellowship. WLP has sponsored fellowship attorneys through Equal Justice Works and the Independence Foundation and would be open to sponsoring applicants through other fellowship programs as well.

Interested persons should contact WLP by mid-August one full year preceding the year of commencement of the fellowship.

Please send a letter of interest, resume, and a legal writing sample to:

Terry L. Fromson
Managing Attorney
Women’s Law Project
125 S. 9 th Street, Suite 300
Philadelphia, PA 19107
tfromson@womenslawproject.org

Women’s Law Project Seeks Applicants for Public Interest Law Fellowships

The Women’s Law Project (WLP) seeks candidates to sponsor for post-graduate public interest attorney fellowship each year. WLP, with offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, is a public interest law center dedicated to improving the legal and economic status of women and their families through litigation, public policy development, education, and legislative reform.

WLP was founded in 1974 by a group of feminist attorneys devoted to winning equality and justice for women. In its early years, WLP won national recognition for its trailblazing ERA Project, which combined extensive litigation under state ERAs with a public education effort to improve public perceptions about the then-proposed federal ERA.

Throughout its history, WLP has played a leading role in the struggle to defend the right of women to reproductive freedom. Its efforts in this area include representation and amicus briefing in the landmark United States Supreme Court decisions cases in Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Ferguson v. City of Charleston, and Stenberg v. Carhart. WLP has also brought and won lawsuits successfully challeng ing ed sex discrimination in employment, insurance , and education , athletics, and pri son conditions. WLP continues its efforts in these important areas and others, including fighting for the rights of lesbian and gay parents, advocating on behalf of impoverished women, seeking justice in the courts’ child custody, child support and protection from abuse processes, championing the rights of sexual assault survivors, and counseling thousands of women on these and many other issues through our telephone counseling service.