Helpful Public Interest Links

 

National and Area Public Interest Organizations

Equal Justice Works

- Equal Justice Works organizes, trains and supports public service-minded law students and is the national leader in creating summer and postgraduate public interest jobs.

Public Interest Law Initiative

- PILI, a non-profit organization, offers Internships and Fellowships for law students and new graduates who want to work at public interest law agencies in Chicago

Chicago Volunteer Net

- Online search service of volunteer opportunities and non-profit organizations in the Chicagoland area

Chicago Cares

- Provides an opportunity to improve the Chicago community through creative, structured group volunteer programs designed to address Chicago’s most pressing needs

Volunteer Match

- A nonprofit, online service that helps interested volunteers get involved with community service organizations throughout the United States

 

Law School Organization

Public Interest Resource Center

Located in Room 654, PIRC is staffed by student counselors who can aid in your search for volunteer opportunities

Chicago-Kent Lambdas

- CKl is an association formed by GLBT students and their allies to provide a forum for those interested in the legal issues that affect the GLBT community and to provide a climate of mutual support, protection, and professional advancement

Environmental Law Society

 - ELS strives to create an atmosphere of lively and unbiased discussion concerning important issues in environmental law 

National Lawyers Guild

 - NLG brings together law students and others in the legal community who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers and minority groups, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends

 

 

 

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Last Update - 08/30/2006