2024-2025 Corporation Counsel Honors Fellowship Program

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## Corporation Counsel Honors Fellowship Program

**Overview**

The City of New York Law Department sponsors an annual Corporation Counsel Honors Fellowship Program for one or two recent graduates a year. The recipients of this paid, highly selective one-year Honors Fellowship enjoy a behind the scenes view into the operations and governance of the City of New York with a focus on the major legal issues facing the City during the course of their fellowship year.

**Program Details**

The Honors Fellowship term will be from fall 2024 to fall 2025. The fellowship stipend will be equal to the salary of a new attorney at the NYC Law Department plus City employee benefits.

Honors Fellows are welcome to express interest in working closely with specific division(s). Past Honors Fellows have gained significant counseling, legislative, transactional, trial court level litigation, and appellate experience. They may also request to work on projects in specific areas of the law such as employment, land use, tax certiorari, constitutional, administrative, environmental, and commercial law. Learn about the 18 legal divisions at the Law Department.

**Eligibility**

Applicants for the Corporation Counsel Honors Fellowship Program must have a record of academic excellence and a demonstrable interest in urban affairs and governance. Applicants must be graduating law school or be no more than three years out of law school. Applicants must also be either admitted to the New York State bar, in the process of becoming admitted, or currently in law school.

**Application Process**

Applications should include a cover letter discussing what legal issues and experiences they would be most interested in exploring through the Honors Fellowship, a resume, writing sample, law school transcript, and a list of three references.

We are now accepting applications to our 2024-2025 Corporation Counsel Honors Fellowship Program through our application portal. The deadline to apply is September 29, 2023.

Questions regarding the Honors Fellowship may be sent to the Legal Recruitment Office.

Current law students seeking post graduation employment may also apply for our Entry-Level Attorney Positions, which is a separate application process.

**Corporation Counsel Honors Fellowship Program**

The City of New York Law Department sponsors an annual Corporation Counsel Honors Fellowship Program for one or two recent graduates a year. The recipients of this paid, highly selective one-year Honors Fellowship enjoy a behind the scenes view into the operations and governance of the City of New York with a focus on the major legal issues facing the City during the course of their fellowship year.

**Program Details**

- Program Duration: Fall 2024 to Fall 2025
- Fellowship Stipend: Equal to the salary of a new attorney at the NYC Law Department plus City employee benefits
- Areas of Focus: Counseling, legislative, transactional, trial court level litigation, and appellate experience. Employment, land use, tax certiorari, constitutional, administrative, environmental, and commercial law.

**Eligibility**

- Record of academic excellence
- Demonstrable interest in urban affairs and governance
- Graduating law school or no more than three years out of law school
- Admitted to the New York State bar, in the process of becoming admitted, or currently in law school

**Application Process**

- Cover letter
- Resume
- Writing sample
- Law school transcript
- List of three references
- Deadline to apply: September 29, 2023

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

City Employee Benefits

Academic Excellence, Demonstrable Interest in Urban Affairs and Governance

Law School

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Qualification and Experience Graduating Law School or no more than three years out of law school, Admitted to the New York State bar, in the process of becoming admitted, or currently in law school

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