Clinical Teaching Fellow for Family Law Clinic

Clinical Teaching Fellow for Family Law Clinic
To apply: Visit www.ubalt.edu/hr/careers and select Clinical Teaching Fellow – Family Law Clinic – JR101329
The University of Baltimore School of Law invites applications for a Clinical Teaching Fellowship in its Bronfein Family Law Clinic to start on or about December 2025. This public interest fellowship program offers practicing attorneys exposure to law school clinical teaching. For more information about UB's clinical program and the Bronfein Family Law Clinic, https://www.ubalt.edu/law/law-clinics/all-clinics/fellowships/index.cfm.
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The Bronfein Family Law Clinic represents low-income individuals and organizations in domestic violence and family law litigation, as well as domestic violence, family law and reproductive justice legislative advocacy, legal reform and community education. The Clinic handles a wide variety of cases, which include civil protection order, divorce, custody, support, adoption, paternity, Special Immigrant Juvenile Cases and name changes. The Family Law Clinic is dedicated to serving low income clients residing in Baltimore City, and places a special focus on persons subjected to abuse and the LGBTQ community. In the clinic, law students are licensed to practice law under the supervision of the faculty director and faculty fellow and serve as first-chair lawyers on their clients' matters and on community-based projects.
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 Bronfein Family Law 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. 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 breaks. This position is a three-year contractual appointment.
Required Qualifications: Excellent oral and written communication skills; a J.D. and at least two years of experience as a practicing lawyer preferably in family law litigation; a strong academic record and/or other indicia of high-performance ability; commitment to work for low income clients; and 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.
Salary: The current salary is $70,000. The position includes full benefits, including retirement (while subject to change, in past years this has included a generous match) and tuition remission. Benefits are listed here (see under “Faculty and Regular Employees”): https://www.ubalt.edu/about-ub/offices-and-services/human-resources/bene.... In addition, this position includes research support (for example, research assistant support and/or book allowance) and a travel allowance to attend relevant conferences and workshops. Candidates interested in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program are encouraged to investigate whether employment at The University of Baltimore, a state educational institution, may qualify.
Position is open until filled, and applications submitted by September 15, 2025 will receive priority consideration. For more details about the Fellows’ Program, please view our website at https://www.ubalt.edu/law/law-clinics/all-clinics/fellowships/index.cfm
To apply: Visit Careers at UBalt and select Clinical Teaching Fellow – Family Law Clinic – JR101329
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