Legal Vocation Fellowship Field Notes: Fall 2024 Update

Applications closing soon, and introducing our panel of speakers, including our keynote speaker, Gary Haugen

We are excited to be moving closer to the start of our second cohort of the Legal Vocation Fellowship. Applications for the next class of fellows close on September 30, 2024. We are welcoming early-career Christian attorneys with two to five years of experience 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.

With that, we are pleased to announce our upcoming speakers, including our keynote speaker for Phase II of the fellowship, Gary Haugen, CEO and founder of International Justice Mission (IJM).

For over 25 years, IJM has worked to protect people in poverty from violence by rescuing victims, bringing criminals to justice, and strengthening local law enforcement. IJM has rescued thousands, protected millions, and now aims to rescue millions more and protect half a billion, making justice for the poor unstoppable.

We are grateful to have Gary’s voice as part of the Legal Vocation Fellowship, and we look forward to welcoming him to share with our fellows this spring in St. Louis. In Gary’s own words:

The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction – our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

LVF exists to cultivate and sustain a network of practitioners dedicated to engaging with the redemptive aspects of legal practice, while also learning to challenge and reimagine the more destructive aspects of our legal system and workplace. In fostering intergenerational communities connecting Christian lawyers, we aim to empower attorneys to be a more faithful presence in their workplaces and to develop a holistic understanding of how their profession intersects with their lives, and how their faith informs it all.

We are also excited to announce our speakers for the upcoming cohort cycle:

We welcome back:

• Andy Crouch, Partner for Theology and Culture at Praxis

• Father Bill Dailey, 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 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 Rain Kincaid, Director of the Institute for Faith and Learning at Baylor University

We look forward to sharing their insights with our fellows!

Finally, we have added an additional faculty member, Pepperdine Caruso Law associate professor and Co-Director for the Nootbaar Institute for Law, Jennifer Koh, to our faculty. She joins Richard Garnett (ND Law), John Inazu (WashU Law), Ruth Okediji (HLS), Elizabeth Schiltz (UST Law), and David Skeel (Penn Law).

To learn more about our speakers and faculty or to submit your application today, please visit our website here.