For the sixteenth consecutive year, the Federal Communications Bar
Association (FCBA) Foundation will award stipends to law students
from its Chairman Robert E. Lee Scholarship and Internship Fund. In
2009, the Foundation will award at least five $5,000 stipends to
law students employed as unpaid summer interns in positions with
the FCC and other government agencies or entities with a connection
to the communications industry (i.e., broadcasting, cable
television, telephony, satellite, wireless, and information
technology). In addition, the Foundation will select one
outstanding intern among those chosen to receive an additional
stipend of $600 for the summer—the “Max Paglin Award.” Mr.
Paglin was the former General Counsel and Executive Director of the
FCC, and the founder of the Golden Jubilee Commission on
Telecommunications, which compiled a definitive legislative history
of the Communications Act. Applicants will be selected on the basis
of: (1) a demonstrated interest in the communications field, (2)
having secured or having pending, an unpaid summer position
(internship) for at least 8 weeks in communications with a
government agency, (3) dependence on financial assistance in order
to accept the unpaid internship in a government agency or entity
involved in communications; and, (4) community activities. To the
extent a recipient receives unanticipated funding for the unpaid
internship, the FCBA Foundation’s general policy is to reduce its
scholarship awards by any amount that a recipient’s total funding
(including all sources) for the internship would otherwise exceed
$7,000.
Applications
for a Lee Fund scholarship should be submitted to Kerry Loughney ,
FCBA Foundation, 102019th Street, N.W., Suite 325, Washington, D.C.
20036, by Friday, March 6, 2009. Applicants may be asked to
interview with members of the Foundation Board; interviews may be
conducted by telephone. Winners will be notified by Friday, April
17, 2009.
Submitted by Jane Heymann, Assistant Dean for Career Services on February 25, 2009 12:11 pm
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