Job o' the Day: Lending Responsibly!
The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is currently accepting applications from third-year law students, judicial law clerks, or recent law school graduates who are seeking a sponsoring organization for a post-graduate fellowship starting in September 2012. 
CRL was created in 2002 to protect homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate predatory lending and other abusive financial practices. CRL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization that promotes responsible lending practices and access to fair terms of credit for low-wealth families. CRL’s litigation team co-counsels a wide variety of consumer protection cases in state and federal courts.
CRL is an affiliate of Self-Help, a community development lender founded in 1980 that creates and protects ownership opportunities for low-wealth families through home and small business ownership. It has provided over $6 billion dollars in financing to help over 50,000 low-wealth borrowers buy homes, build businesses and strengthen community resources.
Applicants may propose their own project or work with CRL’s litigation team to jointly craft a project. CRL is particularly interested in sponsoring projects relating to any of the following issues: (1) abusive auto lending and/or repossession practices; (2) monitoring and challenging attempts by national banks or state housing creditors to preempt state laws in the wake of Dodd-Frank; (3) projects that focus on abusive lending practices within particular communities (e.g., military households, elderly, minority communities, or particular geographic areas); (4) abusive practices in connection with reverse mortgages.
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