Come learn about project-based and organizational fellowship opportunities on Monday, March 24th at 12:30 in D’Agostino Hall, Lipton Hall. Fellowships are a primary route to careers in impact litigation, legal services, and other public interest work. This information session will offer important insights into fellowship opportunities, what graduates gain from fellowships, and the application processes – as well as free pizza! We encourage 1Ls, 2Ls, and 3Ls to attend. In particular, 2Ls and 3Ls who are clerking should be planning for fellowship applications now and are strongly encouraged to attend.
The panel on March 24th will include the following speakers:
Andrew Beck is a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberty Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project. He joined the project as a fellow in 2010 and became a staff attorney in 2011. His practice focuses on protecting reproductive rights through impact litigation in federal and state courts. Prior to his work at the ACLU, Andrew served as a law clerk to Judge Julio Fuentes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and to Judge Jerome B. Simandle, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Andrew received a J.D., Order of the Coif, from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Haverford College.
Allison Guttu is the Staff Attorney & Pro Bono Coordinator at Advocates for Children of New York. Allison provides direct legal representation for children with special needs and coordinates Advocates’ pro bono attorney program. Allison is a 2007 graduate of New York University School of Law and 1998 graduate of Harvard College. While at NYU, Allison received the Davis-Putter Scholarship for Activists, for her grassroots political organizing. She was an associate editor of the Review of Law and Social Change, member of the Black Allied Law Students Association and the Coalition for Legal Recruiting, as well as a student in the Juvenile Defender Clinic. Allison’ Equal Justice Works fellowship at NAPW was at the intersection of drug policy and reproductive justice, to reform punitive child welfare policies allowing newborn removal based solely on a positive drug test at birth. She organized Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: What the experts in Medicine, Social Work and the Law Have to Say, for 500 lawyers, child welfare workers and drug counselors. Allison presented at conferences, linked dozens of underserved clients throughout the U.S. with local advocates, community organizations and lawyers and documented child welfare statutes, pending legislation and arrests of pregnant drug-using women across the country.
Amanda Jaret is the 2013-14 AFL-CIO Law Fellow. Amanda graduated from Binghamton University with high honors in Philosophy in 2010. She attended St. John’s University School of Law and graduated magna cum laude in 2013. While at St. John’s, Amanda served as the Symposium Editor for the St. John’s Law Review, received the Samuel M. Kaynard Memorial Service Award from the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and co-authored several published articles as a Junior Fellow of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at St. John’s. She received the Cesar Chavez Memorial Scholarship for earning the highest grades in the labor and employment law curriculum and the ABA-Bloomberg BNA Award for Excellence in Labor and Employment Law at graduation. During law school, Amanda worked as a law clerk for the United Auto Workers in Detroit, Michigan and at Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, a union-side labor law firm in Manhattan. Next year, Amanda will be joining Chairman Pearce’s staff as a staff attorney at the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C.
Nancy S. Marks is a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., a public-interest environmental advocacy organization, in its New York City office. Working as a member of NRDC’s litigation team, she specializes in citizen enforcement litigation under federal environmental statutes. Ms. Marks has brought dozens of cases against major industrial polluters throughout the country, as well as against federal and state agencies that violate environmental laws. She is also co-director of NRDC’s environmental law clinic with the New York University School of Law. Before coming to NRDC in 1986, Ms. Marks spent two years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. Prior to that, she was a legal fellow in NRDC’s San Francisco office. Ms. Marks earned her J.D. in 1983 from Harvard Law School. Ms. Marks also holds an M.S. in geology from Stanford University (1979), where she specialized in marine geology, and a B.A. in geology from Williams College (1976).