Levy Ratner, P.C.

Law Firm
New York, NY

This is the 2024 fellowship description for this mentor organization.

Levy Ratner has successfully represented unions and working people for more than 50 years. Many of the firm's 18 active lawyers have national reputations in the field of labor and employment law and extensive expertise handling complex, precedent-setting cases. The firm is committed to expanding workers’ rights through union organizing, collective bargaining and litigation.

We currently serve as general counsel to the largest and fastest-growing local health care union in the country. Our other institutional clients are international and local unions representing workers in a wide variety of industries, employee benefit funds, and progressive community and political organizations. We also represent and advise individual employees and groups of employees.

We seek a full-time, in-person Peggy Browning Fellow with a commitment to workers’ rights, to support all areas of our practice primarily through legal research and writing, but also by interviewing clients and witnesses and drafting and/or reviewing contracts, position statements, demand letters, and other documents. Our Fellow will also have opportunities to observe and assist with collective bargaining and arbitrations, and possibly administrative or court proceedings.

Essential qualifications: excellent research and writing skills, labor law coursework, and an ability to work under short deadlines.

BIPOC students are strongly encouraged to apply and will have the opportunity to attend AFL-CIO’s Diversity, Outreach, Opportunities and Recruitment (DOOR) Law Clerk Networking Conference in D.C.

This fellowship is for rising 3Ls only. We provide a weekly stipend of $1,050/week.

Please send your cover letter, resume, unedited writing sample, law school transcript (and if not listed therein, the classes you are taking and will have taken by next summer) to:

Student Hiring
Levy Ratner, P.C.
80 Eighth Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10011