Harvard Law Will Pay $35K Public Interest Stipends for Up to 12 Grads
The job market is bad for law students everywhere—including Harvard.
“In the past year, the job market has been particularly difficult,” says Alexa Shabecoff, assistant dean for public service at the school. She spoke to the National Law Journal about a new fellowship program for Harvard 2010 law grads who can’t find a job.
The school will pay stipends of $35,000 to up to 12 jobless graduates to work in public interest law for a year, the National Law Journal reports. Graduates who have deferred law firm jobs lined up aren’t eligible.
“This targets those students who have tried and tried and tried to get a job or fellowship and just weren’t able to,” Shabecoff told the NLJ.
Public interest organizations will have to sponsor the students receiving stipends. “We’re hoping that the organizations will provide health care, because the amount we can provide won’t be enough to cover everything,” Shabecoff told the legal publication.
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