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Seeking Fall 2027 Applications for Sponsorship of two-year Skadden and Equal Justice Works Fellowships and Externally-Funded Fellows 

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta (Advancing Justice-Atlanta) is pleased to accept applications for sponsorship of two-year Skadden and Equal Justice Works Fellowships and any other externally-funded legal fellowships for Fall 2027. Legal Fellowships with Advancing Justice-Atlanta will offer the unique opportunity to gain meaningful experience in critical aspects of Advancing Justice-Atlanta's diverse docket at the frontlines of immigrant rights and a multiracial democracy. 

About Us

Founded in 2010 as the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center (AALAC), our organization became part of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliation in 2014. Since then, we have re-organized our focus areas more specifically into four groups: Policy Advocacy, Civic Engagement & Organizing, Impact Litigation, and Legal Services.

Our mission is to advance justice in a broad multiracial movement and build power within Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA), and immigrant communities across Georgia and the Southeast. We envision a just world that embraces self-determination, transformative solidarity, and thriving communities.

The Legal Services Department provides comprehensive and direct immigration legal services to low-income and underserved immigrants across Georgia. Our multilingual, trauma-informed team provides culturally competent representation across a broad range of immigration relief-from naturalization, adjustment of status, and DACA/Deferred Action renewals to detention release advocacy, removal defense, and humanitarian protections such as asylum, VAWA, T visas, and U visas for survivors of persecution, violence, and trafficking. We extend our impact through free immigration legal application assistance clinics, Know-Your-Rights workshops, court watch program, and community educational resources and programming.

Our Impact Litigation work includes strategic litigation & administrative advocacy, collaborative civil rights enforcement, and coalition leadership & public education. Our work focuses on immigrant justice and voting rights, using impact litigation as a critical strategy to advocate against and challenge unjust, oppressive and discriminatory laws and policies, protect and defend vulnerable communities, hold institutions accountable and drive systemic change.

Fellowship Summary:

The Skadden Fellowship and Equal Justice Works Fellowship are both two-year fellowships for 2027 law school graduates, outgoing judicial law clerks/bridge and gap fellowships, and LL.M. candidates who are eligible to to work in 2027. We also have a rich history working with other externally-funded fellowships.  

At Advancing Justice-Atlanta, Fellows would have the unique opportunity to serve at the frontlines of our intersection of direct legal services and impact litigation. We have ideas on what project proposals could look like, but are also open to fellowship proposals that would be at the nexus of our two legal practices. Fellows will be expected to practice in either immigration, federal court, or before administrative bodies and/or a combination of these in addition to other duties agreed upon in the final proposal.  

Qualifications:

• Licensed to practice law in Georgia or eligible to sit for the July 2027 bar examination; 

• A strong and demonstrated commitment to civil rights and work with immigrant communities;  

• Creative approach to civil rights work and ability to take initiative during the project development and implementation stage;  

• Excellent research, writing, and analytical skills as demonstrated through writing samples, internship and clinical experience, and academic record;  

• Ability to work cooperatively on a variety of projects with all Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta staff and to develop and maintain positive relationships with diverse clients and community organizations; and  

• Effective written and oral communication skills in both legal and non-legal settings.

To Apply: 

Please email cover letter, resume, law school transcript, and brief outline of a project no more than 3 pages to hr@advancingjustice-atlanta.org; if you do not have an idea for a project, please submit your cover letter, resume, law school transcript, and express your interest in discussing a proposal further. Please put "Post-Graduate Legal Fellowship" in the subject line. Please do not send application materials by mail. 

Applicants will be contacted only in the event that we wish to further discuss your qualifications. Open until applicants for sponsorship are selected, but preference given to those who apply on or before July 20, 2026. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

Once an applicant is chosen, they will work with Advancing Justice-Atlanta to further develop a fellowship proposal to submit. Please note that selection by Advancing Justice-Atlanta does not guarantee final selection for fellowship by a funder.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply, regardless of race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, age, height, weight, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, HIV status, marital or domestic partner status, or religious affiliation. For any accommodations requests in the application process, please contact HR@advancingjustice-atlanta.org