From 1989 through 2016, more than 1,500 Yale Law School graduates have participated in COAP, receiving over $54 million in benefits. In 2016 alone, COAP disbursed $5.2 million in benefits to over 452 graduates.
YLS alumni in COAP have recently worked for (among many others):
The U.S. State Department
The ACLU
Human Rights Watch
Private firms in Washington, D.C., Jackson, Mississippi, and Seattle, Washington
The Texas Defender Service
The New York State Attorney General
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Note: Deferred students should refer to COAP terms specific to the class year to which they were originally admitted.
