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The Appellate Practice Section is taking applications for its subsidized fellowship program aimed at attracting and cultivating young, diverse leadership to the section.
One fellowship is awarded each year and the selected attorney fellow will serve a two-year term. Fellows will have the opportunity to gain appellate experience, and, if permitted, take on an appellate pro bono case with assistance of a mentor. If the attorney fellow’s practice prohibits pro bono representation, the fellow will assist in planning a section CLE presentation, instead. Fellows may also elevate their presence in the appellate bar by publishing an article in one of the section’s publications.
“Our diversity efforts aim to attract members from a wide variety of practice areas,” said Courtney Brewer, co-chair of the Fellowship Program Committee for the 1,500-member section that includes civil and criminal lawyers, plaintiff and defense lawyers, and others interested in the appellate process. “Therefore, although applicants should have an interest in appellate practice, they need not have any experience.”
