Legal Aid Association of California's Dan Bradley Fellowships

Each year, LAAC invites law students working with LAAC member legal services programs during the summer to apply for the Dan Bradley Summer Fellowship Program.

Go to the webstie for the application for the 2008 Dan Bradley fellowship

LAAC will award three Dan Bradley fellowships in 2008.

Requirements:

• Applicants must be law students and have a strong interest in working to defend and expand the legal rights of the poor and the disadvantaged.
• The Dan Bradley fellowship can be combined with up to but no more than $1,500 of additional funding.
• Students must work at their host program the equivalent of ten full-time weeks this summer.
• Host Programs must be current 2008 Organizational Members of LAAC at the time of the student’s application. For a list of eligible programs, please go to 2008 LAAC Members.
• Students who wish to serve their fellowship in a rural area, students of color, and students from low-income or working class backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply.

About the Fellowship Program:
The program is named in honor of the former President and San Francisco Regional Director of the federal Legal Services Corporation, who died of complications related to AIDS in 1987. Dan was born in Manchester, Georgia, but due to family illness was raised in the Georgia Baptist Children's Home. He worked his way through Mercer University and its law school in Macon, GA. After graduation, he was selected in 1967 to be a member of the first class of Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellows. Working in rural Florida, his skilled and effective advocacy on behalf of migrant farm workers brought him national attention. As a result, he became the Southern Regional Director for the OEO Legal Services Program in 1970 and in 1975 was named the first Regional Director in California for the new Legal Services Corporation. His rapid rise in national prominence culminated in his selection as President of the Legal Services Corporation in 1980. Thanks to Dan's tireless advocacy and charismatic leadership, the national effort to expand and equalize access to justice for the poor was very successful.

To honor Dan's legacy and the principles for which he stood, the goal of the Fellowship is to offer law students, particularly those from low-income or working class backgrounds, the opportunity to consider a career in legal services and other public interest law while providing legal services and other programs with a new source of dedicated and energetic staff.

Deadline: April 4, 2008