In June 2008, the Labor and Employment Law section (LELSC) awarded two stipends to a deserving student and an organization. Brian Lowinger chaired the ad hoc committee that established the criteria for the stipend selection process and recommended the nominees to the section steering committee. Several steering committee members assisted him in the process, and by vote, the full steering committee awarded the two stipends to:

• The D.C. Employment Justice Center, which inter alia offers low-cost bilingual legal services to low-income workers in the metropolitan D.C. area on employment law matters. The D.C. Employment Justice Center received a $3,000 stipend, which it will utilize to pay a summer law clerk.
  
• Maria Comé, who will be an intern at Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services in Washington, D.C. She will be entering her second year of law school in the Fall at Washington College of Law, American University.  She is receiving a $3,000 stipend.

The LELSC has awarded stipends to students for the last four years and seeks to continue to assist future students and nonprofit public interest organizations in their labor-and employment-related endeavors.