Overview
The purpose of the Public Interest Law Fellowship Program is to encourage students to consider public interest legal employment. The program is designed to offer Fellowships, covering a ten week period (35 hours per week maximum) during the summer, to qualified students with a demonstrated commitment to public interest law and who have been accepted for unpaid service during the summer. Through their service, students will learn about the many and varied need for lawyers to engage in public service and will learn valuable skills needed for the practice of law. The Fellowship can be used to allow you to volunteer in any organization that qualifies under the following definition:
Responsibilities
- Poverty law includes legal services in civil and criminal matters of importance to a client who does not have the financial resources to compensate private counsel.
- Civil rights law includes legal representation involving a right of an individual which society has a special interest in protecting.
- Public rights law includes legal representation involving an important right belonging to a significant segment of the public.
- Charitable organization representation includes legal service to charitable, religious, civic, governmental and educational institutions in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of customary legal fees would be otherwise inappropriate or impossible.
- Government Agencies: These definitions include legal work affecting broad areas of public concern including the prosecution of crimes, the legal rights of consumers, the elderly, minorities, the poor, and groups whose legal rights are not otherwise adequately represented and who traditionally lack access to the courts.
Qualifications
N/A
Maximum Salary
USD $19.00/Hr.
Minimum Salary
USD $19.00/Hr.
