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
- Accountability Counsel; San Francisco, CA (SLS International Fellowship)
- ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project; San Francisco, CA (Pillsbury Madison Stimson Fellowship, Skadden Fellowship)
- ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project; New York, NY (William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellowship)
- ACLU Voting Rights Project; San Francisco, CA (SLS Fellowship, Skadden Fellowship)
- ACLU of Northern California; San Francisco, CA (SLS Fellowship, ACLU Fellowship)
- ACLU of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA (SLS Fellowship)
- ACLU of Southern California; Los Angeles, CA (SLS Fellowship, Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- ACLU of Texas; Austin, TX
- AIDA International; Geneve, Switzerland (SLS International Fellowship)
- Alaska Public Interest Research Group; Anchorage, AK (SLS Fellowship)
- Alaska Legal Services; Anchorage, AK (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Alliance for Children's Rights; Los Angeles, CA (Skadden Fellowship)
- Appellate Advocates; New York, NY (SLS Criminal Fellowship)
- ArchCity Defenders, Inc.; St. Louis, MO (Skadden Fellowship)
- Arizona Justice Project; Phoenix, AZ (SLS Fellowship)
- Bay Area Legal Aid; Oakland, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services; Los Angeles, CA (Skadden Fellowship)
- Brennan Center for Justice; New York, NY (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Bronx Defenders; Bronx, New York (SLS Fellowship)
- California Appellate Project; Los Angeles, CA (SLS Civitas Fellowship)
- California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.; Fresno, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Catholic Legal Services; Miami, FL (Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship)
- Cato Institute; San Francisco, CA (Koch Associate Program)
- CARECEN; Los Angeles, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Center for Appellate Litigation; New York, NY (SLS Fellowship)
- Center for Biological Diversity; Tucson, AZ (SLS Fellowship)
- Center for Constitutional Rights; New York, NY (Bertha Fellowship)
- Center for Investigative Reporting; Berkeley, CA (Fellowship)
- Center for Justice and Accountability; San Francisco, CA (SLS International Fellowship)
- Children’s Law Center; Washington, DC (SLS Fellowship)
- Civil Rights Corps; Washington, DC
- Clean Air Council (SLS Fellowship)
- ClientEarth; London, UK (SLS Fellowship)
- Clooney Foundation for Justice; New York, NY (SLS Fellowship)
- Communities for a Better Environment (SLS Fellowship)
- Communications Workers of America; Washington, DC (SLS Fellowship)
- Community Legal Services; East Palo Alto, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Community Legal Services of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, PA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Conservation Law Foundation; Boston, MA (SLS Fellowship)
- Constitutional Accountability Center; Washington, DC (Douglas T. Kendall Fellowship)
- Council for Children’s Rights; Charlotte, NC (SLS Fellowship)
- Crag Law Center; Portland, OR (Fellowship)
- Disability Law Center; Boston, MA (SLS Fellowship)
- Disability Rights California (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Disability Rights Maryland; Baltimore, MD (SLS Fellowship)
- Disability Rights Oregon; Portland, OR (SLS Fellowship)
- Earthjustice; San Francisco, CA
- Earthrights International; Washington, DC (Justice Catalyst Fellowship)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation; San Francisco, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Equal Justice Initiative; Montgomery, AL (Equal Justice Initiative Fellowship and Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Equal Justice Under Law; Washington, DC
- Equal Rights Advocates; San Francisco, CA (Ruth Chance Fellowship)
- Equip for Equality; Chicago, IL (SLS Fellowship)
- European Roma Rights Center; Brussels, Belgium (SLS International Fellowship)
- Exoneration Project; Chicago, IL (SLS Fellowship)
- Fair Work Center; Seattle, WA (SLS International Fellowship)
- FarmSTAND; Washington, DC
- Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression; Philadelphia, PA
- Free Yezidi Foundation; Iraq (SLS International Fellowship)
- Georgetown University Law Center; Washington, DC (Prettyman/Stiller Fellowship)
- Georgetown University Law Center’s Environmental Law & Policy Institute; Washington, DC (Fellowship)
- Habeas Corpus Resource Center; San Francisco, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Housing and Economic Rights Advocates; Oakland, CA (Equal Justice Work Fellowship)
- Human Rights First; New York, NY (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Human Rights Watch; New York, NY (SLS International Fellowship, Deane F. Johnson Fellowship)
- Human Trafficking Legal Center; Washington, DC (SLS International Fellowship)
- Immigrant Defenders Law Center; Los Angeles, CA (Skadden Fellowship)
- Immigrant Justice Corps; New York, NY (Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship)
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center; San Francisco, CA (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Innovation Law Lab; Portland, OR (Justice Catalyst))
- International Court of Justice; San Francisco, CA (International Court of Justice Fellowship)
- International Rights Advocates; Washington, DC (SLS International Fellowship)
- Islands First; New York, NY (SLS International Fellowship)
- Juvenile Law Center; Philadelphia, PA (Deane F. Johnson Fellowship)
- Land of Lincoln Legal Aid; East St. Louis, IL (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Landesa; Seattle, WA (SLS International Fellowship)
- Law Foundation of Silicon Valley; San Jose, CA
- Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights; San Francisco, CA (SLS Civitas Fellowship, SLS Fellowship)
- Legal Aid at Work; San Francisco, CA (Skadden Fellowship, SLS Fellowship)
- Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc.; Buffalo, NY (Skadden Fellowship)
- Legal Aid Chicago; Chicago, IL (SLS International Fellowship)
- Legal Aid Service of Broward County; Plantation, FL (Immigrant Justice Corps)
- Legal Aid Society of New York; New York, NY
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children; Oakland, CA (SLS Criminal Defense Fellowship)
- Legal Services of South Central Michigan; Ypsilanti, MI (SLS Fellowship)
- Lenox Hill Neighborhood House; New York, NY (SLS Fellowship)
- MacArthur Justice Center
- Supreme Court and Appellate Program (SLS Fellowship)
- Equal Justice Works Fellowship
- Metropolitan Community Churches; Los Angeles, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Metropolitan Public Defender; Portland, OR (SLS Criminal Defense Fellowship, SLS Civitas Fellowship)
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Los Angeles, CA (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship, SLS Fellowship)
- Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy; Saint Paul, MN (Skadden Fellowship)
- Mobilization for Justice; New York, NY
- Mountain State Justice; Charleston, WV (SLS Fellowship)
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund; New York, NY (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- National Center for Youth Law; Oakland, CA (Deane F. Johnson Fellowship)
- National Consumer Law Center (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- National Immigration Litigation Alliance, Inc.; Brookline, MA (SLS Fellowship)
- National Institute for Workers’ Rights; Concord, CA
- National Lawyers Guild, National Immigration Project; Washington, DC (Justice Catalyst Fellowship)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Honors Program)
- National Women’s Law Center; Washington, DC (Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship)
- Natural Resources Defense Council; San Francisco, CA (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship); Santa Monica, CA (SLS Fellowship); and Washington, DC (Charles Koob Litigation Fellowship and Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem; New York, NY (SLS Civitas Fellowship)
- The New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc.; New Haven, CT (Singer Connecticut Public Service Fellowship)
- New York Civil Liberties Union; New York, NY (SLS Fellowship, SLS Civitas Fellowship)
- New York Lawyers for the Public Interest; New York, NY (SLS Fellowship)
- Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; Seattle, WA (SLS Fellowship, Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Northwest Justice Project; Seattle, WA (SLS Fellowship, Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation; Columbus, OH (Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation’s Justice for All Fellowship)
- Open Society Foundations; New York, NY (Open Society Presidential Fellowship, Open Society Foundation Fellowship in Nonprofit Law)
- Philadelphia Defender Association; Philadelphia, PA
- Philadelphia Legal Assistance; Philadelphia, PA (SLS Fellowship)
- Post-Conviction Justice Project; Los Angeles, CA (Soros Justice Fellowship)
- Prison Law Office; Berkeley, CA (Prison Law Office Fellowship)
- Public Counsel; Los Angeles, CA (Sullivan and Cromwell Fellowship, SLS Fellowship, Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Public International Law and Policy Group; Washington, DC (SLS Fellowship)
- Public Rights Counsel; Oakland, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- RAICES; Palo Alto, CA (Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship)
- Redress; Hague, Netherlands (SLS Fellowship)
- Reprieve; London, England (SLS International Fellowship)
- Service Employees International Union; Washington, DC (Norm Gleichman Law Fellowship)
- Social Justice Legal Foundation; Los Angeles, CA (Hueston Hennigan Fellowship)
- Southern Center for Human Rights; Atlanta, GA (Skadden Fellowship)
- Southern Coalition for Social Justice; Durham, NC (SLS Fellowship)
- Southern Environmental Law Center
- Spero Justice Center; Denver, CO (SLS Fellowship)
- States United Democracy Center; Washington, DC (SLS Fellowship)
- Surveillance Technology Oversight Project; New York, NY
- Take Back the Court
- Texas Fair Defense Project; Austin, TX (Equal Justice Works Fellowship)
- Texas RioGrande Legal Aid; Mercedes, TX (SLS Fellowship)
- Upper Seven Law; Helena, MT (SLS Fellowship)
- Urban Institute; Washington, DC (Ford Foundation Postgraduate Law Fellowship)
- Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs; Washington, DC (Skadden Fellowship)
- White House Gender Policy Council; Washington, DC (SLS Fellowship)
- Youth Law Center; San Francisco, CA (Equal Justice Works Fellowship, SLS Fellowship, Deane F. Johnson Fellowship)
Governmental Employers
- Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; Oakland, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- California Attorney General’s Office; San Francisco, CA
- Civil Rights Enforcement (Honors Program)
- Consumer Protection (Honors Program)
- Natural Resources
- Solicitor General (Earl Warren Solicitor General Fellowship, Geoffrey Wright Fellowship)
- California State Public Defender; Oakland, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Washington, DC
- D.C. Attorney General’s Office; Washington, DC (Appellate Litigation Fellowship)
- Defender Association of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, PA (SLS Fellowship)
- Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois; Chicago, IL (SLS Fellowship)
- Federal Defenders of New York; New York, NY (SLS Fellowship)
- Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc.; San Diego, CA
- Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California; Los Angeles, CA
- Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of California; San Francisco, CA (SLS Criminal Defense Fellowship, SLS Fellowship, SLS Civitas Fellowship)
- King County Public Defender; Seattle, WA
- Los Angeles Public Defender; Los Angeles, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Manhattan District Attorney’s Office; New York, NY
- Mississippi Solicitor General; Jackson, MS
- New Hampshire Public Defender; Concord, NH
- New Jersey State Office of the Public Defender; Trenton, NJ (SLS Criminal Defense Fellowship)
- Oakland City Attorney’s Office; Oakland, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Orleans Public Defenders; New Orleans, LA (SLS Fellowship, SLS Criminal Defense Fellowship, Gideon's Promise Fellowship)
- Palm Beach Public Defender; Palm Beach, FL
- Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia; Washington, DC (SLS Civitas Fellowship, SLS Fellowship)
- Public Defender of Metropolitan Nashville & Davidson County; Nashville, TN (SLS Fellowship)
- San Francisco City Attorney; San Francisco, CA (SLS Fellowship)
- Complex & Affirmative Action Team
- San Francisco Public Defender; San Francisco, CA (SLS Fellowship, SLS Civitas Fellowship, SLS Criminal Fellowship)
- San Mateo County Counsel; San Mateo, CA (San Mateo County Counsel Fellowship)
- Santa Clara County Counsel; San Jose, CA (Impact Litigation and Social Justice Fellowship)
- Solano County Public Defender
- Texas Attorney General, Solicitor General’s Office; Austin, TX (Gregory S. Coleman Fellowship)
- U.S. Copyright Office; Washington, DC (Barbara A. Ringer Copyright Honors Program)
- U.S. Department of Justice; Washington, DC (Attorney General’s Honors Program)
- Antitrust Division (Rill Fellowship)
- Civil Appellate Division
- Civil Rights Division
- Disability Rights
- Criminal Division
- Environment and Natural Resources Division
- Executive Office for Immigration Review
- National Security
- Office of the Inspector General
- Tax Division
- USAO SDNY
- U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General; Washington, DC (Bristow Fellowship)
- U.S. Department of Labor; Washington, DC (Honors Program)
- U.S. Department of the State; Washington, DC (New Attorney Program)
- Office of the Legal Adviser
- U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Washington, DC (Honors Program)
- U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Washington, DC (Honors Program)
- U.S. Federal Reserve Bank; Washington DC (Honors Program)
- U.S. Federal Trade Commission; Washington, DC (Honors Program)
- Bureau of Competition
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Washington, DC
- U.S. IRS Office of the General Counsel; Washington, DC (Honors Program)
- U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Washington, DC (Honors Program)
- U.S. Senate; Washington, DC (Open Philanthropy Project Fellowship)
- Washington State Attorney General’s Office (Honors Program)
Private Public Interest Law Firms
- Altshuler Berzon LLP; San Francisco, CA (Environmental Fellowship)
- Avloni Law; San Francisco, CA
- Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C.; Washington, DC
- Cohen Milstein
- DLA Piper (Pro Bono Fellowship)
- Gibbons P.C.
- Goldstein Borgen Dardarian & Ho; Oakland, CA (Social Justice Fellowship)
- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP; San Francisco, CA (Pro Bono Fellowship)
- Katz, Marshall & Banks; Washington, DC
- Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP; San Francisco, CA
- Law Office of Helen Lawrence; Oakland, CA (Immigration Legal Services Fellowship)
- Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C.; Boston, MA
- Loevy & Loevy; Chicago, IL
- McKanna Bishop Joffe LLP; Portland, OR
- Neufeld, Scheck & Brustin LLP; New York, NY (Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Fellowship)
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; Palo Alto, CA (Stimson Fellowship)
- Relman, Dane & Colfax; Washington, DC (Relman Civil Rights Fellowship)
- Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP; San Francisco, CA
- Sanford Heisler; New York, NY (Sanford Heisler Civil Rights Litigation Fellowship, Deborah L. Rhode Fellowship)
- Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP; San Francisco, CA