PILI Summer Internships (for 1st and 2nd year law students)

The Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) sponsors a Summer Internship Program for first and second year law students. Each summer, PILI funds dozens of internships at public interest law agencies in the Chicago metropolitan area. The program is open to law students from across the country. Agencies hosting a PILI Summer Interns receive $5,000 to pay an Intern for 10 full-time weeks of work. PILI ensures quality supervision by experienced lawyers at the agencies, and provides a lunch-time educational program. The program seeks to have law students work at and learn about legal institutions serving the public interest, and to engender a life-long participation in public interest law and pro bono work.

PILI School-Year Spring Semester Internships (for 2nd and 3rd year law students)

The Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) offers a School-Year Spring Semester Internship Program that is limited to Chicago area law students. PILI recruits law students from area law schools for internships with one of five public interest law agencies in the Chicago metropolitan area. In the 2009-10 academic year, agencies hosting selected interns will receive $2,500 to support 200 hours of intern work. These internships are limited to second and third year law students.

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