You have a lot more leeway in your choice of employment and in your working hours. Several national organizations have fellowship programs. Some of these are highlighted below. For a more comprehensive list of fellowships and a very informative introduction to seeking fellowships, see the widely-used Yale Law School Fellowship Opportunities Guide . Copies of this book are located in the Office of Career Services and the Public Interest Resource Center.
Fellowships come in many forms.
Some are sponsored by law firms and allow recipients to do public interest work while in the firm or on leave from the firm. Some of these law firm fellowships promise a position back in the firm after the public interest work, while some, like the prominent Skadden Arps fellowship, award the fellowship for public interest work with no connection to working in the firm after the fellowship. Some fellowships are provided by law schools for teaching in clinics, doing public interest work, or research and writing, and may or may not lead to an LL.M. degree. Most notably, Georgetown University Law Center offers nine LL.M. fellowship programs. Some students raise grant money directly from foundations and outside the fellowship process for a projects of their own design.