Skadden Foundation
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Skadden Foundation-
Kathleen Rubenstein Executive Director at Skadden Fellowship Foundation
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Rising Star
Kathy Quijije Skadden Fellowship Program Legal Assistant Coordinator-
New York, New York, United States
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Rising Star
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Overview
The Skadden Fellowship Foundation launched in 1988 to commemorate Skadden's 40th anniversary and has since become the largest public interest law firm in the United States. The program provides two-year Fellowships to talented young lawyers to pursue the practice of public interest law on a full-time basis. Our guiding principle is to improve legal services for the poor and encourage economic independence. To date, the Foundation has funded over 900 fellowships. Ninety percent of former Fellows remain in public service, and almost all of them continue working on the same issues they addressed in their original Fellowship projects.