The Blackstone Legal Fellowship
Ideas Have Consequences, But People Change Culture
A UNIQUE & INFLUENTIAL COMMUNITY CHANGING THE WORLD
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is a fellowship in the truest sense, a community bound by friendship, faith, and the pursuit of excellence. From its founding, Blackstone has drawn together some of the most gifted Christian law students from around the globe and set them on a path toward influence at the highest levels of the profession. Blackstone is not simply a summer program. It is a rigorous formation for leaders whose integrity will shape courtrooms, boardrooms, legislatures, and universities. Here, intellectual seriousness is joined with character, and professional ambition is tempered by a larger vision of justice and the common good. Fellows are formed to think with clarity, to act with courage, and to lead with humility—habits of mind and soul rooted in faith, enduring long after the summer ends. Those who walk through Blackstone’s doors join a Fellowship that extends far beyond one season. Its alumni serve as partners in leading law firms, advisors in government, and leaders in business and education. Yet Blackstone’s measure of success is not ambition alone, but vocation: men and women whose lives testify that the practice of law can be a calling—marked by wisdom, excellence, and service to God and neighbor.
The mission
The Process
After a careful and discerning selection, those welcomed into the Blackstone community enter a summer that shapes their hearts, minds, and spirits. Interns are invited into a fellowship where rigorous learning meets deeper purpose.
Phase 1
Blackstone interns are welcomed into a community where faith and intellect are inseparable. They engage in conversations with their peers and faculty about the law shaped by history, philosophy, culture, and the wisdom of Scripture. Guided by prayer and mentors who model courage and humility, they discover a fellowship that calls them to lifelong learning, friendship, and service.
Phase 2
Guided by Blackstone’s professional development team, each intern receives thoughtful counsel and connections to internships that align with their skills, convictions, and aspirations as they apply to the Fellowship. These opportunities carry both significance and purpose, often within leading law firms and corporations, judges’ chambers, government offices, or influential policy institutions. Far more than resume builders, they are moments of clarity and formation—gateways that sharpen judgment, expand knowledge, and open doors into the very institutions that shape law and culture.
Phase 3
At the heart of this phase is a deeper formation: an understanding of the theology of work that frames the practice of law as vocation. Law is not simply a career or a set of professional milestones, but a craft with moral weight and civic consequence. Each case, argument, or piece of counsel carries the potential to advance justice, preserve order, and shape the lives of communities.
“Blackstone was literally life-changing for me. I arrived with confusion about my future, exhaustion toward my school experience, and discouragement about my generation and my country. I am leaving with none of these things. Because of the dedicated staff, superb faculty, and strategic organization of the entire schedule, I am leaving Blackstone with a much sharper vision for my future in terms of both my career and my faith. I have been so encouraged and convicted as a law student and a Christian, and given practical ways to better myself in all those areas. Perhaps most importantly, I am leaving Blackstone with renewed hope for the future of my generation and my country.”
Blackstone Fellow, Class of 2020
Completion & Commissioning
The summer does not end with conclusion but with commissioning. Those who complete the program in good standing are invited to apply to become Blackstone Fellows—joining a community that stretches across the world and into every corner of the legal profession. Commissioning is a passage into a Fellowship that endures. Beyond career counsel and the building of credentials, there is something more enduring at work: one that shapes vision, integrity, and vocation. What begins in one summer opens into a network that offers not only professional support but enduring friendship, trust, and shared purpose. This is more than a resume line—it is a fellowship that lasts a lifetime.
Fellows gather in city chapters and professional circles, sustaining one another with encouragement, wisdom, and opportunity. This alumni community now extends Blackstone’s influence into the very places where decisions are made and culture is shaped. From courtrooms to legislatures, from leading firms to boardrooms and universities, their presence carries weight. Together they amplify one another’s work and extend the reach of the Fellowship far beyond a single season. The impact is enduring: a generation of leaders who bring clarity, courage, and character to the practice of law.