Welcome to Disability Rights Advocates
Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) seeks to sponsor third-year law students, judicial law clerks, and where appropriate, recent law graduates, for fellowships in disability rights law. DRA has sponsored over 25 fellowships since its inception in 1993 including Skadden, Equal Justice Works, David Boies/LD Access and Disability Rights Advocates Fellowships. All are 2-year fellowships. In 2009, the starting fellowship salary will be $46,796 plus partial loan repayment and excellent benefits.
DRA was founded in 1993 by Larry Paradis and Sid Wolinsky to protect and defend the rights of people with all types of disabilities to education, employment, transportation, recreation, housing and public accommodations. DRA is best known for high-impact litigation and advocacy that affects large numbers of individuals with disabilities.
Our Law Fellows make significant contributions to DRA's precedent-setting work. Each Fellow receives intensive training and considerable litigation experience. Some of our fellowship projects in the past years have been:
If you are interested in being sponsored for a post-graduate fellowship, please submit your application to DRA. Fellowships will begin in September 2009.
