Tycko & Zavareei LLP offers a post-JD Public Interest Fellowship for recent law school graduates with a demonstrated commitment to public interest litigation and advocacy. The Fellowship is a two-year program, with a new fellowship term beginning each fall. Fellows are full-time salaried employees of TZ throughout the duration of the program and work closely with the firm’s seasoned attorneys largely on complex class action and qui tam whistleblower matters across all litigation stages and levels.
The Fellowship is an in-person position, with a flexible hybrid work arrangement. Fellows receive the same core benefits available to the firm’s full-time employees, as well as certain fellowship-specific professional development support including bar costs and professional development allowances.
Recruitment for the Fellowship occurs once annually during the summer preceding prospective fellows’ final year of law school or qualifying postgraduate clerkship/fellowship experience. Applications for the 2027–2029 Tycko & Zavareei LLP Public Interest Fellowship will be accepted in Summer 2026 through an online application process. Applications are expected to remain open through late July 2026, with initial interviews anticipated to begin in August. Final hiring decisions will be made in Fall 2026. The selected Fellow will begin the program in Fall 2027 and conclude their Fellowship in Fall 2029.
Additional details regarding the 2027–2029 Fellowship application process, including application instructions and deadlines, will be posted here once available.
Founded in 2012, the Tycko & Zavareei LLP Public Interest Fellowship provides talented new lawyers with the opportunity to work side-by-side with experienced litigators dedicated to public interest advocacy. Fellows are fully integrated into the firm’s litigation teams and receive substantive mentorship, hands-on training, and meaningful responsibility across all phases of litigation, including factual development, legal research and writing, discovery, motion practice, hearings, trial preparation, appeals, and client and coalition engagement.
The Fellowship is designed to provide broad exposure to plaintiff’s side litigation practice while supporting fellows’ long-term professional development as litigators and advocates. Fellows work on matters spanning a range of public interest issues primarily in the consumer protection area and collaborate closely with attorneys across the firm throughout their two-year term.
In addition to their work within TZ, Fellows spend three consecutive months of the program serving as visiting pro bono fellows with leading nonprofit organizations across the country. These placements provide fellows with the opportunity to contribute directly to the work of mission-driven legal advocacy organizations while developing additional substantive expertise and professional relationships within the broader public interest legal community.
TZ has partnered with a number of exceptional nonprofit organizations through this program, including:
The Tycko & Zavareei LLP Public Interest Fellowship reflects TZ’s longstanding commitment to mission-driven work and to training the next generation of public interest litigators.
Meet Current TZ Public Interest Fellows:
We look forward to welcoming our selected 2026–2028 Fellow, Alinnah Qiao (Harvard Law School, ‘26), in September 2026.
We look forward to hearing from you.
