The Immigration Practice at Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) seeks to sponsor rising third year law students, judicial law clerks, and recent law graduates to sponsor for post-graduate public interest law fellowships in Fall 2027.

BDS will consider proposals that support BDS’s mission to provide the highest quality legal representation and extend our work in innovative ways; we are particularly interested in developing a project focused on rapidly responding to the constant immigration enforcement and policy changes that impact BDS clients across the organization.

BDS is a public defense office representing low-income New Yorkers in criminal, family, immigration, and civil legal matters. For 30 years, BDS has worked, in and out of court, to protect and uphold the rights of individuals and to change laws and systems that perpetuate injustice and inequality. Our legal expertise and our work with clients is focused on the intersections of these legal systems that dispro...