Convening, equipping, and encouraging Christian legal practitioners
Distinctively Christian and broadly ecumenical
Multiethnic and nonpartisan
Regionally focused and nationally connected
The Legal Vocation Fellowship is a practically-oriented discipleship program focused on forming Christian lawyers for the next generation.
Led by Christian law faculty and senior practitioners over a 15-month period, LVF seeks to convene, equip, and encourage early-career attorneys wanting to integrate their Christian faith into the practice of law and restore the social fabric for love of neighbor and faithfulness to God.
Our fellows will find a community of like-minded attorneys—some of them peers and others of them mentors. Our community and content will not only shape their approach to the practice of law but also how they apply their legal training to churches, nonprofits, and neighborhoods, how they invest in friends and family, and how they pursue spiritual disciplines in their lives.
These experiences and perspectives will be anchored in their participation in the fifteen-month program, and they will be nurtured and sustained through regular regional alumni gatherings and touchpoints with the growing national cohort. Over time, the relationally based cohorts launched and cultivated through the Legal Vocation Fellowship will be locally rooted and nationally connected.
Our Values
Distinctively Christian and broadly ecumenical
Our mission is to cultivate a community of attorneys committed to growing in spiritual maturity and discernment, encouraging one another in their faith and vocation, being a faithful presence in the legal profession, and pursuing the flourishing of society for the sake of the Kingdom.
For that reason, we ask that fellows, mentors, faculty, and speakers posses a mature Christian faith, have a commitment to multiethnic and nonpartisan engagement, and be active participants in a community that affirms the Apostles’ Creed.
Multiethnic and nonpartisan
We are committed to building a diverse cohort of fellows along with cultivating a diverse panel of local mentors, national faculty, and speakers. The program is relationally oriented, and will wrestle with opportunities, tensions, and challenges that Christians confront in the practice of law. As such, the program is also intentionally nonpartisan to encourage discussion amongst differences.
Regionally focused and nationally connected
We develop cohorts currently spanning seven regions through fellows, mentors, faculty, speakers, donors, and alumni.
As each region grows over time, alumni from different cohort cycles will interact locally, including through regional alumni gatherings. Each cohort of fellows will continue to grow a national network of Christian lawyers dedicated to improving the practice of law.
Our Process
Convene
Equip
Encourage
Fellows meet monthly in regional mentoring groups to learn from our faculty and guest speakers over Zoom and to discuss the program materials.
For each Zoom meeting in Phases I and III, we assign a brief advance reading and ask fellows to offer written reflections on it. We then provide substantive content, followed by discussions within each of the regional cohorts. This model mitigates two common risks of many existing mentoring groups. First, by providing structure and content, we frame the mentoring relationship around a specific set of ideas. Second, by meeting as cohorts, we reduce the incompatibility that often accompanies one-to-one mentoring programs that depend on the right personality matches.
We build our cohorts around geographic regions to emphasize community and continuity. Each of our regions pairs four mentors with four fellows.
Engage
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Fellows
We ask that fellows are attorneys about 2-5 years out of law school and working in one of our seven regions. We are looking for fellows who want to integrate their Christian faith into the practice of law and committed to the core values of LVF. If you are interested in becoming a fellow, applications for the next cohort open Summer 2026. Meanwhile, you can learn more about our fellowship and what it offers.
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Mentors
We plan for 4-5 attorneys from each of our regions who will walk alongside the fellows during their 15-month fellowship. The principal commitment will be joining monthly in-person gatherings with the fellows and other mentors and hosting 3-4 of those gatherings. There is no cost to be a mentor. Mentors are welcome to join the May in-person gathering in St. Louis, but are not required to attend. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please reach out to us below.
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Donors
We are looking for donors who are excited about our mission and would like to sponsor one or more fellows from these regions or contribute to the larger program. Our donors, both individuals and institutional, are an integral part of our mission. All donation are tax-deductible.