Clinical Teaching Fellow - Civil Advocacy Clinic

University of Baltimore (MD) • Baltimore, MD

51d • $70,000 - $70,000

About The Position

Position is open until filled, and applications submitted by January 15, 2026 will receive priority consideration. The University of Baltimore School of Law invites applications for a Fellowship in its Civil Advocacy Clinic to start on or about July 1, 2026. This public interest fellowship program offers practicing attorneys exposure to law school clinical teaching. For more information about UB's clinical program and the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic, please go here: https://www.ubalt.edu/law/law-clinics/index.cfm. The Civil Advocacy Clinic represents low-income individuals and organizations in poverty law litigation, legislative advocacy, and legal reform. The Clinic handles a wide variety of cases, which include housing, public benefits, consumer, and employment law. The Clinic is also engaged in a Medical-Legal Partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine Med-Peds Urban Health Primary Care Residency Program, in which we work jointly to serve the medical and legal needs of low-income Baltimoreans, while providing interdisciplinary training to residents and student attorneys. The Fellow's duties include direct supervision of clinic students' client, case, legislative advocacy and community education work, co-teaching a weekly clinic seminar, and engaging in course planning and preparation with the other faculty members in the Clinic. The Fellowship focuses its first year on the skills of teaching, from crafting and leading seminars, to facilitating supervision meetings with student-attorneys. The second year of the fellowship focuses on developing legal scholarship. In the third year, we support the Fellow to go on the clinical teaching job market. In addition to teaching, supervision, and legal scholarship, the Fellow is responsible for case coverage during school vacations. This position is a three-year contractual appointment.

Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• A J.D. and at least two years of experience as a practicing lawyer primarily in litigation
• A strong academic record and/or other indicia of high-performance ability
• Commitment to work for low income clients
• A strong interest in law school teaching and scholarship
• Fellows must be members in good standing with the Maryland Bar or another State bar and willing to complete the necessary documentation to be permitted to supervise law practice by students.

Responsibilities

• Direct supervision of clinic students' client, case, legislative advocacy and community education work
• Co-teaching a weekly clinic seminar
• Engaging in course planning and preparation with the other faculty members in the Clinic
• Case coverage during school vacations

Benefits

• regular benefits, including retirement contributions, research support, and a travel allowance to attend relevant conferences and workshops
• health, life, prescription, and dental plans, tuition remission benefits, paid leave (22 days of annual, 15 days of sick, 3 days of personal, and 14-15 holidays) and retirement plans with employer contributions
• For the optional retirement plan, a defined contribution plan, the state has a contribution rate of 7.25%. This state contribution is made even if you do not contribute to your own retirement plan.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree