Public Interest Law

PREVIOUS FELLOWSHIP PLACEMENTS
Students are responsible for initiating and arranging their own fellowship placements. While there are many local, national and even international organizations that qualify as fellowship placements, the following is list of a few organizations that have accepted our fellowship recipients in the past. Use this list to get some initial ideas for placements of interest. Where available, links are provided so students can begin to collect information on specific organizations.
ACLU of Texas (Austin and Houston)
http://www.aclu-houston.org/
http://www.aclutx.org/chapters.austin.php
Advancement Project (Washington, D.C.)
http://www.advancementproject.org/
Advocacy, Inc. (Austin and Houston)
http://www.advocacyinc.org/index.cfm
Aids Law of Louisiana
Associated Catholic Charities, TX Center for Immigrant Legal Assistance (Houston)
http://www.catholiccharities.org/ccservices.html
Center for Disease Control (Atlanta)
Children's Assessment Center (Houston)
City of Houston Legal Department
http://www.houstontx.gov/legal/intern.html
Cleveland Works (Cleveland)
http://www.clevelandworks.org/
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Houston)
http://www.eeoc.gov/
Harris County Attorney's Office (Houston)
http://www.co.harris.tx.us/coatty/
Harris County District Attorney's Office (Houston)
http://dao-web.dao.hctx.net/ie/front.cfm
Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program (Houston)
http://www.ehvlp.org/pages/volunteer.htm
Liberty Counsel (Orlando)
Lone Star Legal Aid (Houston, Galveston and other East Texas offices )
Southwest Regional Juvenile Defender Center (Houston)
http://www.law.uh.edu/juveniledefender/
Texans for Lawsuit Reform (Houston)
http://www.tortreform.com/join
Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (Houston)
http://www.talarts.org/volunteer.htm
Texas Attorney General (Austin, Houston and other major Texas cities)
Texas Defenders Service (Houston and Austin)
Texas Parks and Wildlife (Austin)
Texas Rural Legal Aid (Central and South Texas)
Travis County Juvenile Public Defender (Austin)
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/juvenile_public_defender/default.asp
U.S. Attorney's Office (Houston and Chicago)
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txs/
http://uspirg.org/uspirg.asp?id2=5268&id3=USPIRG&
Women’s Advocacy Project (Austin)