Summer Internships in Public Interest Law

Application Process Continues for Public Interest Law Initiative's (PILI) Summer 2010 Law Student Internship Program

Each summer, PILI funds dozens of 400-hour internships for first and second-year law students from across the country to work at public interest law agencies in the Chicago area.  Many PILI Interns provide low-income and disenfranchised clients with critically needed legal assistance. Other PILI Interns conduct advocacy, policy-based work or impact litigation that enhances the health, safety and welfare of the disenfranchised. All PILI Interns gain valuable work experience that distinguishes their education and ultimately their careers.  PILI raises the funds necessary for each agency to pay its PILI Interns, ensures quality supervision by experienced agency lawyers, provides an educational luncheon seminar series, hosts social events and offers networking opportunities.  Through PILI Internships, law students work at and learn about public interest law, and begin what PILI hopes is a lifelong commitment to public interest law and pro bono work.  PILI's Summer Law Student Internship application period opened on December 1, 2009 and will be open through March 31st, or until every eligible agency has completed its hiring. Read more...