Our Legal Empowerment Fellows represent more 40 different NYC schools throughout each of the city’s five boroughs. Every Saturday, these Fellows meet at Fordham Law School to engage in rigorous legal coursework and stimulating conversation.

  • Our Legal Empowerment Fellows completes multiple weeks of each traditional first year law school course: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, and Torts.

    Along with these courses, each of our students complete courses on Critical Theory, Legal Research & Writing, Fundamental Lawyering Skills, and Negotiations.

  • We bring our students outside of the classroom to activate their knowledge within the communities. Past students have hosted material resource distributions, conducted local pools on residents’ legal knowledge, and diseminated critical legal information to members of their communities.

  • Our Fellows develop ancillary skills to help build meaningful, sustainable careers. Along with resume support and recommendations, Defying Legal Gravity works actively to build a network of legal service providers, law firms, and other legal agencies to serve as internship placements for graduated Fellows.

Our Pre-Law Programming focuses on college-aged students living in New York City. Through multi-week seminars and workshops, we allow young adults to audit the law school experience while obtaining critical knowledge to help navigate a pivotal point in their lives.

  • Our Legal Empowerment Fellows completes multiple weeks of each traditional first year law school course: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, and Torts.

    Along with these courses, each of our students complete courses on Critical Theory, Legal Research & Writing, Fundamental Lawyering Skills, and Negotiations.

  • We bring our students outside of the classroom to activate their knowledge within the communities. Past students have hosted material resource distributions, conducted local pools on residents’ legal knowledge, and diseminated critical legal information to members of their communities.

  • Our Fellows develop the ancillary skills necessary to build meaningful, sustainable careers. Along with resume support and recommendations, Defying Legal Gravity works actively to build a network of legal service providers, law firms, and other legal agencies to serve as internship placements for graduated Fellows.