Supporting employee justice and representation in the legal profession.
Promoting diversity within the plaintiffs’ employment bar in California.
Your donations truly have a huge impact on the lives of the recipients, providing opportunities to work in dream jobs pursuing a career fighting for employee rights.
The average law school student graduates with $120,000 in student loan debt. Without these fellowships and scholarships, many diverse law students would never get the opportunity to pursue their dream careers fighting for employees’ rights.
Our Mission
FAIR’s mission is to promote diversity within the plaintiffs’ employment bar in California, so the attorneys representing California’s workers are as diverse as those they seek to represent. FAIR also seeks generally to raise public consciousness about worker’s rights and remedies, to provide educational opportunities and programs to individuals who seek to advance the rights of workers, including but not limited to fellowships, internships, and scholarships, and to carry on other educational activities associated with FAIR’s goals.
Mark Rudy Mediators’ Match
Top employment mediator Mark Rudy of San Francisco helped initiate the "challenge" campaign, in which employment mediators around California are donating a day's mediation proceeds (or the plaintiffs share of day's proceeds) to FAIR, to support the organization's diversity recruitment efforts. FAIR's leadership believes that the mediators who work with CELA members every day and whose practices benefit so much from the support of the plaintiffs' employment law community, should give back, by means of a tax deductible donation, to show support for the cause of increasing diversity in the plaintiffs' employment bar. Learn more and accept the challenge here:
Fellowships
FAIR supports diversity within the plaintiffs’ employment law bar through two fellowship programs. The FAIR Fellowship is a unique fellowship that enables a new attorney to work full-time for two consecutive terms: 12 months at Legal Aid at Work and six months at a law practice affiliated with the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), an organization of more than 1200 workers’ rights advocates throughout California. The Employee Justice Summer Clerkship grant provides diverse law students with an opportunity to work for CELA members and learn how to be fervent litigators and advocates for workers. We work to inspire these law students to join the CELA family and continue their careers as workers' rights attorneys fighting for workplace fairness and equality.
FAIR was created in 2009 by members of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA). FAIR is exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is incorporated in California as a nonprofit public benefit organization. All contributions to FAIR are deductible to the maximum extent permitted by the law.
