Legal Vocation Fellowship

We are excited to welcome our second cohort of fellows and launch Phase I of our program - where fellows are exploring the deeper questions of meaning, purpose, and service in their legal careers! Read more about what we're up to at LVF, and join us in St. Louis on May 1st if you are in the area for a conversation with Gary Haugen, CEO and founder of International Justice Mission, and John Inazu about how Christian lawyers can integrate their faith and work to create a true sense of vocation. https://lnkd.in/eFtmu7Cz

We are excited to announce that the Legal Vocation Fellowship is bringing in partnership with the Weidenbaum Center at WashU, the Public Interest Law and Public Policy Speaker Series at WashU Law, The Carver Project, and One Family Church two events with Ben Spencer and Barbara Bradley Hagerty on November 18, 2024 in St. Louis, MO. "Out of the Darkness // Into the Light: A Story of Injustice and Redemption" feature Ben Spencer and award winning journalist and author Barbara Bradley Hagerty in conversation about Ben's story and the faith it took to endure the long journey to freedom from an unjust conviction for a murder he did not commit that left him wrongfully imprisoned for 34 years. We look forward to you joining us if you are in the St. Louis area.

We are pleased to announce our speakers for the upcoming cohort cycle, including our keynote speaker for Phase II of the fellowship,?Gary Haugen, CEO and founder of International Justice Mission. He will be speaking with our fellows in this spring 2025. We are also excited to be welcoming back: ? Andy Crouch, Partner for Theology and Culture at Praxis ? William Dailey, C.S.C., Leep Family Rector, Graham Family Hall at University of Notre Dame ? Justin Whitmel Earley, Author and Founder of Earley Business Legal ? Justin Giboney, President/Executive Director at AND Campaign ? Ebony McCain, Assistant Circuit Executive Court Policy & Research at Federal Judiciary ? Raija Munk, Former Counsel, U.S. Senate We are grateful to hear from them again about how they understand the practice of law and faith! We are also thrilled to welcome newly onboard as speakers: ? Robert F. Cochran Jr., Author and Professor Emeritus at Pepperdine Caruso Law ? Haejin Shim Fujimura, Founder/Managing Partner at Shim & Associates, P.C. and Co-Founder/CEO of Embers International ? Elisabeth Kincaid, PhD, JD, Director of the Institute for Faith and Learning at Baylor University We look forward to sharing their insights with our fellows! Read more about Gary and the rest of our speakers here: https://lnkd.in/dSVxWvWd Finally, we have added an additional faculty member,?Pepperdine Caruso Law associate professor and Co-Director for the Nootbaar Institute for Law, Jennifer Lee Koh, to our faculty. She joins Richard Garnett (ND Law), John Inazu (WashU Law), Elizabeth Schiltz (UST Law), David Skeel (Penn Law), and Ruth L. Okediji (HLS). ?? REMINDER ?? Applications for our next cohort class close at the end of this month (Sept. 30th)! We welcome early-career Christian attorneys (2-5 years into practice) to apply as fellows in one of our?eight regional cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, New York City, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. - https://lnkd.in/e5cac-iU!

Today, we launched applications for our next cohort of fellows for the Legal Vocation Fellowship. If you or someone you know is an early-career attorney wanting to understand role of faith and vocation in your life, we invite you apply or share our application at: https://lnkd.in/e5cac-iU - applications close Sept. 30, 2024. This year, we are excited to announce we have expanded our cohort to Atlanta, Minneapolis, and New York City - adding to Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington, DC. We are distinctly and broadly Christian, intentionally multiethnic and nonpartisan, regionally focused and nationally connected. To learn more about LVF and what we do read more in our quarterly field notes linked below, or visit our website at: https://lvf.carverstl.org/