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SUPPORT OUR FOUNDATION | OUR FELLOWSHIP CLASS OF 2020
Racial Justice Sustained Impact Fellowships | Puerto Rico Sustained Impact Program
A Preference for Veteran Fellowship Applicants
We maintain a long-standing commitment to corporate responsibility. By providing a meaningful investment in law students and legal professionals to engage in law, public policy and public service, the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation embodies this commitment.
The Foundation is rooted in a history of civil rights advocacy. Established in 2000, the Foundation honored the retirement of the firm’s founding partner James R. Patton, Jr. To endow the Foundation, we dedicated lawyers’ fees from a 25-year pro bono case, the Ironworkers case, won by Foundation President John Oberdorfer. In the case, a federal court in Washington DC struck down racial barriers faced by African-American construction workers.
The Foundation’s endowment has continued to grow through the proceeds of a second large pro bono victory, the Yachtsman case, won when we successfully settled a federal racial discrimination suit against a hotel resort that discriminated against African-American bikers during Black Bike Week in Myrtle Beach.
Throughout the years, the Foundation has also been supported by generous individual contributions from partners and friends of the firm.
Public Policy Fellowship Program
The cornerstone of the Foundation is the Public Policy Fellowship Program, which launched in 2005. Each year, the Fellowship Program awards fellowships to exceptional first- and second-year law students who demonstrate a steadfast commitment to public service and a developed interest in public policy. These law students commit their summers to advancing public policy issues through non-profit institutions, government agencies and domestic or international organizations.
To date, the Foundation has provided fellowships to 298 law students at 24 schools located throughout the US and overseas. The Fellowship Program reflects the firm’s industry-leading Public Policy Practice and its commitment to public service.
The 2021 Fellowship Program has 28 Fellows. In addition to 22 Public Policy Fellows, there are three Fellowship programs that are the product of the Foundation’s collaboration with the Deans’ Circle, created in 2018.
Under our Sustained Impact Fellowship Program, three Fellows are working on Racial Justice; one is focusing on Black community- police relations, another on voting rights, and a third on juvenile justice in minority communities. Two are working on Puerto Rican post-Hurricane Maria recovery issues that still stand in the way of insurance and financing to rebuild homes destroyed by the hurricane. And, in conjunction with the Case Western Reserve University Law School, a Fellow is working at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, combining law and journalism.
The 2021 Public Policy Fellows Are:
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Sustained Impact Puerto Rico Fellow |
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Sustained Impact Puerto Rico Fellow |
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Sustained Impact Racial Justice Fellow |
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Sustained Impact Racial Justice Fellow |
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Sustained Impact Racial Justice Fellow |
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Pulitzer Center Fellow |
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American University Washington College of Law |
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Case Western Reserve University School of Law |
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Case Western Reserve University School of Law |
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Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law |
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Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law |
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Georgetown University Law Center |
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Georgia State University College of Law |
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Howard University School of Law |
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Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law |
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The George Washington University Law School |
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The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law |
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University of Arkansas School of Law |
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University of California Hastings College of the Law |
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University of Cincinnati College of Law |
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University of Colorado Law School |
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University of Denver Sturm College of Law |
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University of Denver Sturm College of Law |
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University of Miami School of Law |
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University of Texas School of Law |
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University of Virginia School of Law |
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University of Virginia School of Law |
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Yale Law School |
