PILI is excited to welcome eight fall Law Student Interns who will work 200 hours during the semester at legal service agencies in Chicago.
PILI will grant $312,000 to fund 60 Law Student Interns at 30 public interest law organizations across Illinois during the 2020-21 academic year and the summer of 2021. Learn more »
In addition to funding these Interns, PILI ensures quality supervision by experienced agency attorneys, and provides extra educational, networking and mentoring opportunities. This program helps Interns launch successful public interest law careers while also helping the Intern’s agency increase their impact.
Four of the fall Internship placements are made possible by special funding commitments from organizational champions for public interest law:
O’BRIEN-ANDERSEN NAMED INTERN
Michael Abraham from University of Illinois College of Law is the Fall 2020 Andersen-O’Brien Named Intern at the Legal Aid Society. This Internship is generously funded by Justice Sheila M. O’Brien (Ret.) and Judge Wayne R. Andersen (Ret.) because of their strong commitment to public interest law and, specifically, to the work and mission of Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services.
BAKER MCKENZIE INTERN
Hasan Cetin from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law is the Fall 2020 Baker McKenzie Intern at the Center for Disability and Elder Law (CDEL). Baker McKenzie has had a special relationship with CDEL for decades, with many lawyers at the firm serving on CDEL’s Board of Directors and generously donating their time and talent on dozens of legal matters for CDEL clients. Funding a school-year Internship placement at CDEL through PILI further supports their important work.
CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION INTERN
Lauryn Woodward from DePaul University College of Law is the Fall 2020 Chicago Bar Foundation Intern at Chicago Volunteer Legal Services. As the charitable arm of the CBA, The Chicago Bar Foundation brings the legal community together to improve access to justice for people in need and make the legal system more fair and efficient for everyone. Learn more about the CBF’s support of PILI’s Law Student Internship Program on their website.
LAGBAC INTERN
Fernanda Hererra Speiler from Loyola University Chicago School of Law is the Fall 2020 LAGBAC (Lesbian And Gay Bar Association of Chicago) Intern at the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) in their LGBT Immigrant Rights Initiative. The LAGBAC Foundation’s mission is to improve access to the legal and judicial system for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed and questioning persons by giving law students the opportunity to learn valuable, practical legal skills while giving back to our community.
Click here to see the full list of Fall Interns and where they will be working this semester »