Stanford Law School has been invited to partner with the Social Justice Legal Foundation funded and created by the partners of Hueston Hennigan LLP, along with Columbia, Northwestern, UCLA and Yale law schools, in a new fellowship program that will identify pressing legal issues and develop a new generation of trial lawyers in the public sector.  Promising graduates from the five law schools will have the opportunity to collaborate with social justice organizations and bar associations to take some of the most difficult and important social justice cases to trial through two-year, fully-funded fellowships housed at Hueston Hennigan’s Los Angeles office.

“We are excited to partner with the foundation and the other schools to develop this incubator for recent law graduates pursuing a career in the public interest,” said Diane T. Chin, associate dean for public service and public interest law at Stanford Law School and advisory board member for the foundation. “At Stanford, we provide our public interest students with resources to explore careers that advance social justice through the law and this new fellowship program offers an important opportunity for them to receive real-world litigation experience and mentorship.”

Sponsored by a $10 million pledge of support from Hueston Hennigan, the foundation will bring together leading trial lawyers from the private sector, and a lineup of star advisors including judges, leading activists and scholars to vet and pursue groundbreaking cases. Each of the five law schools involved will have a representative on the foundation’s board, and the board will select an emerging leader from among each school’s graduates to serve a fully funded two-year fellowship. 

About the John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law

The mission of the John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School is – through courses, research, pro bono projects, public lectures, academic conferences, funding programs and career development – to make public service a pervasive part of every law student’s experience and ultimately help shape the values that students take into their careers. It also engages in programming and research that support development of the public interest legal community to increase access to justice.

About Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School is one of the nation’s leading institutions for legal scholarship and education. Its alumni are among the most influential decision makers in law, politics, business and high technology. Faculty members argue before the Supreme Court, testify before Congress, produce outstanding legal scholarship and empirical analysis, and contribute regularly to the nation’s press as legal and policy experts. Stanford Law School has established a new model for legal education that provides rigorous interdisciplinary training, hands-on experience, global perspective and focus on public service, spearheading a movement for change.