Paul, Weiss Center to Combat Hate Summer 2025 1L Fellowship – March 1st Deadline

Center to Combat Hate 1L Fellowship

Paul, Weiss looks forward to hiring an NYU Law 1L for this inaugural fellowship position during summer 2025. Ideal candidates for this position will have an interest in pursuing a legal career in public service long term, and can demonstrate that their goals are aligned with the mission of the Paul, Weiss Center to Combat Hate.

Please speak to Student Financial Services about the implications of this position for scholarships, awards, and LRAP

Applications are due March 1st via CSM

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The 1L Summer Fellow Experience

• The selected 1L summer fellow will work directly with the Paul, Weiss Center to Combat Hate, supervised by attorneys working with the Center.
• As a summer fellow, they will be compensated at the same rate as all Paul, Weiss summer associates ($225,000/year prorated for the number of weeks worked) and paid directly by the firm.
• They will also:
  • Share an office with other summer associates and enjoy the same benefits as all summers;
  • Be invited to all social events and take part in all mandatory training programs;
  • Have a partner and associate mentor assigned to them who work directly with the Center; and
  • Work with our Pro Bono Department on assignments, subject to availability and giving priority to the Center.
• Feedback on work performed during the summer will be shared via a mid-summer and farewell check-in with the assigned partner mentor.
• Note: Applicants understand this role is for the 1L summer only and is not eligible for re-hire for a 2L summer position based on this experience. Consideration for a 2L summer position will require a separate application and interview process.

About the Center

• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP launched The Center to Combat Hate, dedicated to partnering with civil rights organizations and educational institutions to bring impact litigation to confront and redress hate-driven violence and intimidation.
• For nearly a century, Paul, Weiss has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to advancing civil rights and combatting racism and xenophobia. Its contributions have ranged from Walter Pollak’s successful appeal overturning the conviction of the Scottsboro Boys in 1935; the firm’s assistance to Thurgood Marshall in overturning the doctrine of “separate but equal” in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education; to its lawyers’ work in securing a groundbreaking verdict in 2021 in Sines v. Kessler against white supremacist groups for conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence in Charlottesville.
• The Center to Combat Hate will facilitate even closer partnerships with co-counsel and civil rights partners in efforts to fight hate-based extremism through the court system and other avenues of legal advocacy, with the goal of safeguarding vulnerable communities and groups and fostering a more just and equitable society.
• The Center is led by Daniel Kramer and Karen Dunn, two senior Paul, Weiss lawyers who have helped spearhead groundbreaking lawsuits to hold white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups accountable for violence and intimidation. Kramer teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League and States United Democracy Center in representing the District of Columbia in its lawsuit seeking recovery against the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for harm to police officers during the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol; and Dunn, who serves as Co-Chair of the Litigation Department, tried the Sines v. Kessler case, winning a historic jury verdict against the leaders of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements in America responsible for the racially motivated violence at a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017. The two will serve as co-executive directors, with Kramer also serving as Chair of the Advisory Board and Dunn serving as a member of the Advisory Board.
• The Center’s prestigious Advisory Board also includes Paul, Weiss Chairman Brad Karp, Deputy Chair Valerie Radwaner, and other prominent firm partners, including Litigation Department Co-Chair and legendary trial lawyer Ted Wells, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, and prominent litigator and former prosecutor Jeannie Rhee.
• To learn more about the team, its partners, and recent legal cases, please visit the Center’s website, www.centertocombathate.com.