Career Development: Fellowship Applications Due to Borchard April 15

The Borchard Foundation Center for Law and Aging reminds us that the application window is now open to apply for 2014-15 Borchard fellowship funding.  The program provides three law school graduates the opportunity to pursue their research and professional interests for a year in law and aging. 

The fellowship is $42,500 and is intended as a full-time position only. The fellowship period runs from July 1 to June 30 each year, or for the calendar year beginning the month after the fellow’s completion of a state bar examination. 

Examples of activities and projects by Borchard Fellows: 

·     Working with an established legal services program to enable vulnerable, isolated, low-income seniors to age-in-place by addressing their unmet legal needs; 

·     Providing holistic services to older clients facing consumer debt and foreclosure-related concerns; 

·     Implementation of a courthouse project to help elderly pro se tenants achieve long-term housing stabilization through the interdisciplinary use of legal representation and social services, allowing more elderly tenants to “age in place” at home; 

·     Development of a non-profit senior law resource center providing direct legal services and public education; 

·     Development of an interdisciplinary elder law clinical program at a major public university law school; 

·     Development of a mediation component for a legal services program elder law hotline; 

·     Development of an interdisciplinary project for graduate students in law, medicine, and health advocacy to foster understanding and collaboration between professions.

For more details on how to apply before April 15, 2014 deadline, see details here.