Postgraduate Entry-level Public Interest Employment List
The following list includes the names of some of the public interest employers where Stanford Law School alumni have begun their public service careers over the past decade. These are employers who offered positions to graduating students and alumni finishing judicial clerkships or other public interest fellowships. It does not include alumni who enter public service positions with other legal experience (e.g., transitioning in from a corporate firm).
Nonprofit employers
- ACLU, New York, NY (Equal Justice Works Fellowship and Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- ACLU/Human Rights Watch, New York, NY (Aryeh Neier Fellowship)
- ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, San Francisco, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship, Skadden Fellowship, and Pillsbury Madison Stimson Fellowship) and New York, NY (Skadden Fellowship)
- ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, New York, NY (William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellowship)
- ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship, ACLU of Northern California's Racial Justice Fellowship, and Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- ACLU of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (Stanford Law School – Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship and Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- Alaska Legal Services, Anchorage, AK (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Alliance for Children's Rights, Los Angeles, CA (Skadden Fellowship)
- Altshuler Berzon/Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA (Altshuler Berzon/Natural Resources Defense Council Fellowship)
- Animal Legal Defense Fund, Cotati, CA (Animal Legal Defense Fund Fellowship)
- Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Bay Area Legal Aid, Oakland, CA (Skadden Fellowship and Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Los Angeles, CA (Skadden Fellowship and Bet Tzedek Legal Services Social Justice Fellowship)
- Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Bronx Defenders, Bronx, NY (Equal Justice Works Fellowship and Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- California Indian Legal Services, Oakland, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- California Rural Legal Assistance, Salinas, CA (Stanford Law School – Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship)
- Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition, Washington, DC (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- CARACEN, Los Angeles, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Center for Constitutional Rights (Bertha Fellowship)
- Centro Legal de la Raza, Oakland, CA (Shartsis Friese LLP Public Interest Fellowship)
- Children’s Initiative of the ACLU of Illinois, Chicago, IL (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Children’s Law Center, Washington, DC (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Children’s Rights, New York, NY (Skadden Fellowship)
- Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law, New York, NY (Fellowship in Climate Change Law)
- Council for Children’s Rights, Charlotte, NC (Stanford Law School – Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship)
- Disability Rights Advocates, Berkeley, CA (Skadden Fellowship and in-house Disability Rights Advocates Fellowship)
- Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC (Environmental Law Institute Fellowship)
- Environmental Law and Policy Center, Chicago, IL
- Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, AL (Equal Justice Initiative Fellowship and Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Equal Rights Advocates, San Francisco, CA (Ruth Chance Fellowship)
- First Amendment Project, Oakland, CA
- The Florence Project, Florence, AZ
- Friends of Farmworkers, Philadelphia, PA (Independence Foundation Fellowship)
- Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC (Prettyman/Stiller Fellowship and Georgetown Law Institute for Public Representation Fellowship in Environmental Law)
- Georgetown University Law Center’s Environmental Law & Policy Institute, Washington, DC (Fellowship)
- Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston, MA (Skadden Fellowship)
- Human Rights First, New York, NY (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center, San Francisco, CA (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Impact Fund, Berkeley, CA (Equal Justice Litigation Fellowship and the Stanford Law School – Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship)
- Johns Hopkins University Vice President & General Counsel’s Office, Baltimore, MD (Fellowship in Higher Education Law)
- La Raza Centro Legal, San Francisco, CA (Soros Justice Fellowship)
- Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship and Skadden Fellowship)
- Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco, CA (Skadden Fellowship)
- Legal Aid at Work, San Francisco, CA (Skadden Fellowship and Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- Legal Aid of Marin, San Rafael, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Legal Aid of North Carolina, Durham, NC (Skadden Fellowship)
- Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Division, New York, NY (Skadden Fellowship)
- Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation’s Justice for All Fellowship)
- Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, San Mateo, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship and Skadden Fellowship)
- Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Legal Services for Children, San Francisco, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship and Skadden Fellowship)
- Make the Road New York, New York, NY (Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship)
- Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Boston, MA
- Metropolitan Public Defender, Portland, OR (Stanford Criminal Defense Fellowship)
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Los Angeles, CA (Fried Frank/MALDEF Fellowship and Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Mississippi Center for Justice, Biloxi, MS (Equal Justice Works Fellowship and Skadden Fellowship)
- NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, NY (Fried Frank/NAACP LDF Fellowship)
- National Association of the Deaf Law Center, Silver Spring, MD (Skadden Fellowship)
- National Center for Youth Law, Oakland, CA (Skadden Fellowship)
- National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA (Skadden Fellowship)
- National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC (Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship)
- Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, CO
- Natural Resources Defense Council, Chicago, IL (MAP Sustainable Energy Fellowship); San Francisco, CA (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship); Santa Monica, CA (Stanford Law School Fellowship); and Washington, DC (Charles Koob Litigation Fellowship and Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY (Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, New York, NY (Skadden Fellowship)
- Northwest Justice Project, Seattle, WA (Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- Office of the Appellate Defender, New York, NY
- Open Society Foundations, New York, NY (Open Society Presidential Fellowship and Open Society Foundations Fellowship in Nonprofit Law)
- Oregon Legal Center, Portland, OR (Skadden Fellowship)
- Orleans Public Defender, New Orleans, LA (as standard hires and via the Stanford Law School – Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship and Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- Philadelphia Legal Assistance, Philadelphia, PA (Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- Post-Conviction Justice Project, Los Angeles, CA (Soros Justice Fellowship)
- Prisoners' Legal Services, Boston, MA (Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Fellowship)
- Public Citizen, Washington, DC (Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellowship)
- Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA (Skadden Fellowship)
- Public Knowledge, Washington, DC (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Reprieve, London, England
- Shelter from the Storm, Palm Desert, CA (Stanford Law School – Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship)
- Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA (Environmental Law Fellowship)
- Sierra Club, Washington, DC (Environmental Law Fellowship)
- Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA (Skadden Fellowship and Stanford Law School – Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship)
- Southern Environmental Law Center, Charleston, SC
- Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL (Southern Poverty Law Center Fellowship)
- Stanford University Center on Ocean Solutions, Stanford, CA (Early Career Fellows Program)
- United Auto Workers, Detroit, MI (Law and Organizing Fellowship)
- University of California Student Association, Oakland, CA
- Urban Institute, Washington, DC (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY (Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship)
- Yale Center on Environmental Law and Policy, New Haven, CT (Fellowship)
Governmental employers
- Alameda County District Attorney's Office, Oakland, CA (Stanford Law School Fellowship)
- California Attorney General, Public Rights Division (Honors Program) and Solicitor General's office (Earl Warren Solicitor General Fellowship) San Francisco, CA
- Colorado Public Defender, Boulder, CO
- Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office, Martinez, CA
- Contra Costa County Public Defender's Office, Martinez, CA
- Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of California, San Francisco, CA
- Federal Defenders of San Diego, San Diego, CA
- Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, Miami, FL
- National Labor Relations Board, Phoenix, AZ (Attorney Honors Program)
- National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC (Attorney Honors Program)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC (Attorney Honors Program)
- New Jersey State Office of the Public Defender, Trenton, NJ (Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Fellowship)
- New York County District Attorney, New York, NY
- Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, OH (Simon Karas Fellowship)
- Oregon Attorney General, Salem, OR (Attorney Honors Program)
- Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia , Washington, DC (Stanford Law School Civitas Fellowship)
- San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, San Francisco, CA
- San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, San Francisco, CA (as standard hires and via the Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Fellowship)
- San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office, Redwood City, CA
- Santa Clara County Counsel, San Jose, CA (Impact Litigation and Social Justice Fellowship)
- Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office, San Jose, CA (Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Fellowship)
- U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, Netherlands
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, Chicago, IL
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, New York, NY
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, Portland, OR
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, Washington, DC
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s Office of Staff Attorneys, San Francisco, CA
- U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Legal Honors Program, Washington, DC
- Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Division, Washington, DC (Presidential Management Fellowship)
- Community Planning and Development, San Francisco, CA (Presidential Management Fellowship)
- U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Attorney General’s Honors Program)
- Antitrust
- Civil Division
- Civil Rights Division
- Criminal Division
- Environment and Natural Resources Division
- Executive Office for Immigration Review
- National Security
- Office of the Inspector General
- Tax Division
- U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, Washington, DC (Bristow Fellowship)
- U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor General, Washington, DC (Honors Program)
- U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Administrative Law Judges, San Francisco, CA
- U.S. Department of the State, Office of the Legal Adviser, Washington, DC (New Attorney Program)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Boston, MA (Region I Honors Attorney Fellowship)
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, Washington, DC (Attorney Honors Program)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC
- U.S. Navy JAG Corps, San Diego, CA
- U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC (U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Employment Program)
Private Public Interest Law Firms
- Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, CA
- Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC
- Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP, Baltimore, MD
- Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP, New York, NY
- Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho, Oakland, CA (as standard hires and via the Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho Fellowship)
- Gupta Wessler PLLC, Washington, DC
- Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick LLP, Pasadena, CA
- Hughes Socol Piers Resnick, Ltd., Chicago, IL
- Katz, Marshall & Banks, Washington, DC (Katz, Marshall & Banks Civil Rights Fellowship)
- Leonard Carder, Oakland, CA
- Lieff Cabraser, San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; and Nashville, TN
- Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL
- McCracken, Stemerman & Holsberry, LLP, San Francisco, CA
- Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., Chicago, IL
- Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP, New York, NY (Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Fellowship)
- Outten & Golden LLP, New York, NY
- Phillips & Cohen, Washington, DC (Phillips & Cohen Fellowship)
- Relman, Dane & Colfax, Washington, DC (Relman Civil Rights Fellowship)
- Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP, San Francisco, CA
- Sanford Heisler, New York, NY (Sanford Heisler Civil Rights Litigation Fellowship)
- Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, San Francisco, CA (Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP Fellowship)
- Strumwasser & Woocher LLP, Los Angeles, CA