Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) seeks rising third year law students, judicial law clerks, and recent law school graduates to sponsor for a post-graduate public interest law fellowship. The fellow will join the Seizure and Surveillance Defense Project in the Criminal Defense Practice and will work collaboratively with BDS to design a project envisioning direct advocacy, policy, and litigation projects to challenge the increase in law enforcement surveillance of young people in schools. BDS regularly sponsors fellows for Justice Catalyst, Echoing Green, and school-based fellowships.

BDS is a public defense office representing low-income New Yorkers in criminal, family, immigration, and civil legal matters. Our work with clients is focused on the intersection of the legal systems that disproportionately impact Black and brown communities living below the poverty level in Brooklyn.

BDS represents thousands of people each year who have diverse, complex, and multi-facete...