Washington and Lee Law School is accepting applications for the Oliver Hill Fellowship, a two-year clinical fellowship at the W&L Community Law Center at the Oliver Hill House. The Fellowship is an excellent opportunity for law school graduates committed to social justice and interested in a clinical fellowship with W&L Law’s neighborhood-based community lawyering clinic in Roanoke, Virginia. The 24 month appointment can start as early as May 1, 2010, or as late as August 1, 2010.
The W&L Community Law Center dedicates its entire practice to the mission of social justice and racial equality. It combines direct representation of individual clients with public policy advocacy to advance civil rights and human dignity. For the Fall 2010 semester, the W&L Community Law Center has three practice priorities: immigration visas for victims of serious crimes and/or family violence; voting rights reform of felony disenfranchisement in Virginia; and a general poverty law practice offering representation to low-income residents of Roanoke, particularly those residents of neighborhood communities devastated by Urban Renewal.
The Oliver Hill Fellow serves as the supervising attorney of the W&L Community Law Center at the Oliver Hill House. The Fellow’s dual roles of legal educator and managing attorney impose four primary responsibilities: practice management of a legal aid provider; pedagogical supervision of W&L Law students providing direct client service to low-income individuals and qualified community non-profits; independent case management of complex legal matters not suitable to primary handling by law students; and public policy advocacy in collaboration with both public interest attorneys and other social justice non-profits.
More information on how to apply for these opportunities and many others can be found within the JobNet section of Symplicity. Log on to https://law-une-csm.symplicity.com/students/