The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights has created a fellowship program to honor Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel name partner Marvin Frankel, a founding member and long-time chairman of its board, who passed away last March. Judge Frankel, who spent the last 19 years of his career at Kramer Levin, serving as chairman of the firm and head of the litigation department, was a hands-on participant in the Lawyers Committee's work, traveling the globe to monitor human rights violations and even being briefly imprisoned in Kenya during a trip in the 1980's. In a tribute at its October 23 annual Human Rights Award dinner, the Lawyers Committee said that "Marvin's life and work were a guide and inspiration to all who believe that law should be used as a tool to protect human rights, in the U.S. and internationally." The Marvin Frankel Fellowships will be awarded to law students working in the Lawyers Committee's Asylum Program -- a program Judge Frankel helped establish and through which Kramer Levin lawyers have represented dozens of refugees seeking asylum. The fellowship program was established with contributions from the firm and other supports of the Lawyers Committee, which also announced that it will soon change its name to Human Rights First.