Two Yale Law Students Receive Skadden Public Interest Fellowships

The Skadden Fellowship Program named two Yale Law School students as 2026 Skadden Fellows. The Skadden Fellowship Foundation awarded Bill De La Rosa ’26 and Bryce Morales ’26 two-year fellowships to pursue the practice of public interest law full-time. 

According to the Skadden Foundation, the new fellow hail from 20 law schools across the country. The 34 recipients were selected in December 2025 to begin their public interest careers by addressing a broad range of civil legal issues affecting people living in poverty throughout the United States. 

Bill De La Rosa ’26

De La Rosa will work at Florence Immigrant Rights and Refugee Project in Tucson, providing universal representation for detained immigrants in Eloy and Florence, Arizona, representing primarily indigent clients against deportation and building a coalition to sustain its expansion.

Bryce Morales ’26

Through the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C., Morales will work to combat private voter suppression of low-income individuals by challenging schemes using digital disinformation to deceive, defraud, and disenfranchise marginalized communities.

The Skadden Fellowship Foundation provides two-year fellowships to recent law graduates to pursue the practice of public interest law on a full-time basis and to address unmet civil legal needs of people living in poverty in the U.S. Since 1988, the foundation has funded more than 1,000 fellowships. Ninety percent of Skadden Fellows remain in public service, and many are still working on the same issues as their original fellowship projects, according to the foundation. View a complete list of this year’s fellows.