The Skadden Fellowship Foundation is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that was launched in 1988 to commemorate Skadden's 40th anniversary. The program provides two-year Fellowships to recent law graduates to pursue the practice of public interest law on a full-time basis. Skadden Fellows address unmet civil legal needs of people living in poverty in the US. They apply, having already designed their job, and secured a strong, non-partisan host organization, which is the non-profit that will supervise their work. This year, the Foundation achieved the milestone of funding over 1,000 fellowships. Our goal is to launch public interest careers, and the vast majority of former Fellows devote their whole careers to public service, building on the expertise they developed in their original Fellowship projects.
