O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP
Law Firm
Washington, DC
This is the 2023 fellowship description for this mentor organization. This fellowship position has been filled.
O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP is one of the oldest and largest union-side labor law firms in the United States, with approximately 30 attorneys engaged in the representation of labor unions and employee benefit plans. Since its founding in 1935, the firm has served as counsel for both international and local unions. For instance, the firm has long served as general counsel for three international building trades unions and a department of the AFL-CIO. In addition, the firm has served as counsel on a regular basis, or for special projects, for a variety of other unions, including those representing insulators, broadcast technicians, communications workers, electrical workers, emergency medical technicians, federal government employees, ironworkers, judges, letter carriers, machinists, pilots, pressmen, stagehands, teachers, teamsters and others.
During the 1950s, the Firm helped to establish some of the first jointly-administered employee benefit plans in the construction and printing industries. In the years to follow, the firm's employee benefits practice has grown extensively to include the representation of national, regional and local employee benefit plans in a wide range of industries.
O'Donoghue has also been at the forefront of developing progressive legislation - at the federal, state and local level - to assist labor organizations and employee benefit plans.
The Peggy Browning Fellow will conduct research, writing and other substantive work at the direction of the firm's attorneys. Previous Fellows have worked on research and client memoranda, benefit plan documents, and briefing papers, as well as pleadings, motions and other documents at all stages of the litigation process. The Fellow will gain exposure to a wide range of legal issues in the fields of labor law and employee benefits law, and to legislative, regulatory and policy issues of consequence to unions, employee benefit plans and the workers and families they serve.
We prefer second-year students who have experience in the areas of labor law and/or employee benefits or who demonstrate a strong interest in these areas.
The stipend for this ten-week fellowship will be $1,200 per week (i.e., $12,000 in total for the 10-week period).
The Fellow would work from our Washington, DC office and be encouraged to participate in networking opportunities, organized events and workers' rights workshops offered by the AFL-CIO and other labor organizations.
Please address the cover letter to:
Michael Powers, Esq.
O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP
5301 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20015
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