AmeriCorps Fellows are encouraged to serve for two years. In exchange for completing each 11-month term of service as an AmeriCorps Fellow, you will receive:

• Valuable program management, community organizing and supervisory experience;
• Hands-on opportunities to provide direct legal services and representation for people in need;
• Access to Equal Justice Works' professional network of public interest professionals, legal service agencies, law schools, law firms and judges;
• A network of peers across the country and in your community, working together to make a difference;
• A living allowance of $22,800;
• Health care insurance;
• Child care assistance (if income eligible);
• A $4,725 education award voucher to apply toward payment of federally backed educational loans and other expenses;
• Eligibility to place all qualified student loans into forbearance and receive an interest-accrual payment at the end of service;
• The opportunity to attend a national training program to develop leadership skills, learn effective practices to accomplish your projects and meet colleagues from across the country;
• Depending on the site, supplemental benefits may be offered such as bar dues, relocation reimbursement, housing assistance and/or a cash supplement to the education award; and,
• The chance to make a difference by building capacity in low-income communities and developing a future generation of lawyers committed to pro bono service.