April 17, 2009 4:05PM # Use Your Career Deferment to Work for Liberty By Cato Editors --- SHARE Many law firms are asking their incoming first-year associates to defer their start dates (from a few months to a full year) and are offering stipends to these deferred associates to work at public interest organizations. [The Cato Institute](https://www.cato.org) invites third-year law students and others facing firm deferrals to apply to work at our [Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/research/ccs/index.html). This is an opportunity to assist projects ranging from Supreme Court amicus briefs to policy papers to the *[Cato Supreme Court Review](https://www.cato.org/pubs/scr/)*. Interested students and graduates should email a cover letter, resume, transcript, and writing sample, along with any specific details of their deferment (timing, stipend, availability, etc.), to Jonathan Blanks at [jblanks@​cato.​org.](mailto:jblanks@cato.org) Please feel free to pass the above information to your friends and colleagues. For information on Cato’s programs for non-graduating students, contact Joey Coon at [jcoon@​cato.​org.](mailto:jcoon@cato.org) ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).