UNLV Student selected Janet D. Steiger Fellowship

Rachel Bickle-Stone, a student at the William S. Boyd School of Law was selected for a Janet D. Steiger Fellowship.   The Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project is a full-time, eight week minimum, summer fellowship program open to all first and second year law students throughout the United States. The project is part of an overall effort by the ABA Section of Antitrust Law and the National Association of Attorneys General ("NAAG") to provide unique training opportunities to law students who may wish to consider public service as a profession, while at the same time, assisting the states that are in substantial need of additional resources to fulfill their consumer protection mission. The Section also seeks to honor the memory of one of America's great public servants, the late Janet D. Steiger, who served with such distinction as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 1989 to 1995. Chairman Steiger was instrumental in elevating the status of consumer protection in this country, while dramatically improving the level of communication, cooperation and coordination between the FTC and the National Association of Attorneys General. Through a working partnership with NAAG, Steiger Fellows will serve during the summer of 2006 in the consumer protection departments of the offices of attorneys general in Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, the Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. After reviewing nearly two hundred applications nationwide in this, the second year of the program, students were selected as Steiger Fellows.