1. Funding Sources Which May Be Appliced in Various Geographic Work Locations
2. Funding Sources Available in Specific Regions
3. Law Firm Split Summer Programs

AFL-CIO Law Student Union Summer
815 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Contact: Nancy Schiffer
Phone: 202-637-5336
Fax: 202-637-5232
E-mail: nschiffe@aflcio.org
Website:http://www.aflcio.org/aboutunions/unionsummer/lsus.cfm

• Pay: Weekly stipend of $600. Transportation and housing costs are also covered.
• 2009 Deadline: Oct. 20, 2008, for 2Ls; Jan. 26, 2009, for 1Ls.
• 10 week internship program for law students that combines front-line legal work with grassroots organizing in real, on-going campaigns by AFL-CIO unions in various regions of the country.
• For more information and for application materials, see http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/unionsummer/law_stu_app.cfm. Online application is also available from this site.

Arthur C. Helton Fellowship Program
The American Society of International Law
2223 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Contact: Veronica Onorevole 
Phone: 202-939-6000
E-mail: fellowship@asil.org
Website: http://www.asil.org/helton-fellowship.cfm 

• Pay: $1,000 micro-grants.
• 2009 Deadline: Applications must be received by February 13, 2009. Students can begin to submit applications on October 15, 2008.
• Fellows will undertake their fieldwork between April 2009 and August 2009 in association with an established educational institution, international organization, or non-governmental organization working in areas related to international law, human rights, and humanitarian affairs.
• Funded by contributions from ASIL members, this one-time award will provide financial assistance, "micro-grants" of up to $1000, for law students and young lawyers to pursue human rights work and research. Fellows will undertake their projects in affiliation with an established NGO or human rights organization.
• For more information, and for online application, see http://www.asil.org/helton-fellowship.cfm. 

Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) / AABA Law Foundation
P.O. Box 190517
San Francisco, CA 94119
Website: http://www.aaba-bay.com/

• Deadline 2009: January 12, 2009
• The AABA offers funding to qualified summer law clerks to work on legal projects that provide free legal services to the Asian American community.
• Students must work a minimum of 10 weeks.
• Applications for the 2009 grant are available on the AABA's website.

Bergstrom Fellowship - University of Michigan Law School
The Michigan Child Welfare Law Program
University of Michigan Law School
611 Church Street, Suite 4C
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3000
Contact: Alicia Lixey, Training Coordinator
Phone: 734-763-5000
E-mail: lixey@umich.edu
Website: http://www.law.umich.edu/bergstrom

• Pay: A limited number of stipends are available, and up to $500 in travel expenses for training may be provided.
• 2009 Deadline: February 1, 2009.
• The University of Michigan Law School is offering places in the Bergstrom Child Welfare Law Summer Fellowship Class of 2009. Applicants should have completed their first year of law school but not yet graduated. Fellows work in various offices around the country specializing in representation of children, parents and social service agencies.
• Placement in child welfare office can be found after acceptance into fellowship.
• Fellows must attend a three-day training from May 27-29, 2009.
• Interns must work a minimum of 10 weeks. Students can obtain information and applications from the website.

Blakemore Foundation - Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4800
Seattle, WA 98101-3266
Phone: 206-359- 8778
Fax: 206-359-9778
Email: blakemore@perkinscoie.com
Website: http://www.blakemorefoundation.org/

• 2009 Deadline: December 30, 2008.
• Eligibility: applicants should be pursuing an academic, professional, or business career that involves the regular use of a modern Asian language; have an undergraduate degree; be at or near an advanced level in the language as defined by the Grant Guidelines; be able to devote themselves exclusively to the language study during the term of the grant; be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• Selection criteria: applicants should have a focused, well-defined career objective involving Asia in which use of the language is an important aspect; the potential to make a significant contribution to a field of study or area of professional or business activity in an Asian country; good academic, professional, or business background, appropriate to the career program

Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) / CEIP Fund, Inc.
179 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-426- 4375
Fax: 617-423-0998
Email: info@eco.org
Website: http://www.eco.org/

• 2009 Deadline: There is no application deadline, but early applications generally receive the best responses.
• ECO offers a wide variety of paid internships in the fields of environmental protection, public policy and community development, and resource management.
• Applications and information can be obtained from ECO directly.
• Specific information about ECO's various placements can be located on the website.

Equal Justice America Legal Service Fellowships
Building 2, Suite 204
13540 East Boundary Road
Midlothian, VA 23112
Phone: 804- 744-4200
Fax: 804-744-6789
E-mail: dan@equaljusticeamerica.org
Website: http://www.equaljusticeamerica.org/

• Pay: $4,000 stipend.
• 2009 Deadline:  All applications must be postmarked no later than March 23, 2009. Awards will be announced by email no later than April 24, 2009.
• Students may work anywhere in the United States, provided that the hiring organization is a non-profit organization providing direct civil legal services to the poor. Equal Justice America generally funds over 175 students per summer.
• Students must work full-time (35-40 hours per week) for at least 10 weeks.
• To apply, applicants must send a cover letter describing their commitment and interest in providing legal services to the poor, a resume, two letters of recommendation, and an employment confirmation letter from the hiring organization to Equal Justice America at the above address. All application materials must be sent together.
• Equal Justice America sponsors fellowships for law students at more than 60 law schools.  Applicants must attend one of these law schools to be eligible for this program.  A list of these schools can be found at http://www.equaljusticeamerica.org/LawSchools.htm.
• Students should indicate on the cover letter whether or not they have work-study funding. Students may apply prior to securing a placement, but an employment confirmation letter is required before a fellowship will be awarded.
• NYU students should apply directly through the PILC office.
• Application materials are available at: http://www.equaljusticeamerica.org/prev_applications/ApplicationSummer2006.htm

Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Program
2120 L Street, NW
Suite 450
Washington, DC 20037-1541
Contact: Jessica Heaven, Americorps Program Assistant
Phone: 202-466-3686
Fax: 202-429-9766
Email: summercorps@equaljusticeworks.org
Website: http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/

• Pay: $1,000 education award voucher
• 2009 Deadline: April 1, 2009.
• Summer Corps is an AmeriCorps-funded program that provides 315 law students with the opportunity to earn a $1,000 education award voucher for spending the summer in a qualifying internship at a non-profit, public interest organization.
• Students must complete 300 service hours to receive the education award voucher, which can be used to pay current educational expenses or qualified student loans.
• County, state, and nonprofit public defenders offices now qualify for Summer Corps funding; Current AmeriCorps Fellow Host Sites each may receive up to 5 guaranteed funded Summer Corps members.
• For more information about eligibility criteria and the application and selection process, visit http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/programs/summercorps/general

Federal Communications Bar Association Foundation/ Robert E. Lee Scholarship and Internship Fund
1020 19th Street, NW, Suite 325
Washington, DC 20036-6101
Phone: 202-293- 4000
E-mail: heidi@fcba.org
Website: http://www.fcba.org/

• Pay: Stipend is $5,000.
• 2009 Deadline: March 6, 2009.
• The FCBA will award at least four summer stipends to law students employed as unpaid summer interns in positions with the FCC and other government agencies or entities with jurisdiction over the communications industry (i.e., broadcasting, cable television, telephony, satellite and information technology).
• Applicants will be considered based on their demonstrated interest in the communications field; having secured or having pending, an unpaid summer position for at least eight (8) weeks with a government agency; their involvement in community activities; and, their dependence on financial assistance in order to accept an unpaid internship.
• For more information and application materials, see http://www.fcba.org/foundation/internship_stipends.shtml.

Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowship for Social and Economic Justice
National Lawyers Guild, National Office
132 Nassau Street, Suite 922
New York, NY 10038
Phone: 212-679-5100
E-mail: membership@nlg.org
Website: http://www.nlg.org/

• Pay: The stipend is $2,000 and is paid in two installments by the project. The stipend may be supplemented with work-study grants and student fellowships.
• Duration: Fellows are required to work full-time for ten weeks. Starting and ending dates are negotiated between the fellow and the project.
• 2009 Deadline: January 16, 2009.
• The Summer Projects Committee has expanded to place hundreds of students with public interest organizations that are working to protect and further the civil and criminal rights of oppressed people in the United States.
• Students apply for either an internship with a sponsoring organization or may submit a proposal for a student-initiated project.
• For more information and for application materials, see http://nlg.org/resources/HB_Packet_2008FULL.pdf.

Loyola Law School Center for Juvenile Law and Policy W.M. Keck Summer Fellowship
Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at Loyola  Law School
919 Albany Street
Los Angeles, California 90015

• 2009 Deadline:  November 18, 2008 by 5pm.
• Application Process: Submit cover letter, resume, official law school transcript and one letter of recommendation to the contact above.
• Fellowship provides a generous stipend for two months beginning June 1, 2009 to law students who have demonstrated a committment to public interest law, criminal defense nad children's issues.

Peggy Browning Fund Summer Internship
1818 Market Street, Suite 2300
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Contact: Mary Anne Moffa
Phone: 215-665- 6815
Fax: 215-564-2262
Email: mmoffa@peggybrowningfund.org
Website: http://www.peggybrowningfund.org/

• Pay: minimum $4,500 stipend for 10 weeks.
• 2009 Deadline: January 15, 2009.
• The Peggy Browning Fund will support between 40 and 50 funded Summer Fellowships in labor-related organizations throughout the United States.
• Participating labor organizations and application materials are available at: http://www.peggybrowningfund.org/apply.html
• Only students from certain law schools are eligible to participate. See website or visit your career services/public interest office to determine if you are attending an eligible law school.
• A cover letter, resume and completed application form must be sent to each eligible work site to which you wish to apply. A copy of each complete application must also be sent to the Peggy Browning Fund.
• Both the Fund and the specific sites to which students are applying must have received your applications by the deadline. Students can apply for up to 3 postions.
• All recipients of summer funding are required to attend a one day (expenses paid) early Fall 2009 wrap-up program/evaluation session.

Political Economy Research Center for Graduate Fellowship Program
2048 Analysis Drive, Suite A
Bozeman, MT 59718
Phone: 406-587-9591
E-mail: perc@perc.org
Website: http://www.perc.org/

• Pay: Fellows receive a monthly stipend of $1,600 in addition to reimbursement for reasonable domestic round trip travel expenses to Montana.
• Duration: Three months.
• 2009 Deadline: 2009 Applications are due by February 15th for early decision and March 15th for regular decision.
• PERC'S fellowships for graduate students and law students offer the ideal opportunity for those who are interested in researching issues related to natural resources and the environment.
• Graduate fellows spend three months at PERC in Bozeman, Montana, researching and writing a paper under the supervision of a PERC senior fellow. While there, fellows are required to present two to three seminars to outline, report on, and summarize their research findings. A paper of publishable quality is the expected result.
• For more information and application materials see http://www.perc.org/enviroprog/students/grad/basics.php

Pride Law Fund Fellowship
Pride Law Fund Summer Fellowship
P.O. Box 2602
San Francisco, CA 95126- 2602
Phone: 415-788- 0900
Email: info@PrideLawFund.org
Website: http://www.pridelawfund.org/fellowships/summer.html

• 2009 Deadline: All applications must be postmarked by March 19, 2009. 
• The Roberta Achtenberg, Steven Block, Mary Morgan, and Richter Fellowship Programs are open to law students working under the supervision of an attorney at a 501(c)(3) organization anywhere in the country. Applicants may apply for more than one fellowship by submitting a written proposal for a Summer project on which they seek to work, together with a letter of sponsorship by an attorney from a 501 (c)(3) organization, setting forth the attorney's commitment to supervise the applicant on the project.
  1. The Achtenberg Fellowship supports the work of concern to the lesbian and gay community in the public sector, regarding public policy or of a public service nature.
  2. The Block Fellowship supports work in the area of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered civil rights and education.
  3. The Morgan Fellowship supports legal work on issues of concern to lesbians and bisexual women.
  4. The Richter Fellowship supports work in the area of HIV/AIDS, including legal services to people with HIV and/or AIDS.

QLaw Summer Public Interest Grant Program
Spencer Anderson & Buhr, PLLC
1700 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2100
Seattle, Washington 98101
Contact: Cynthia Buhr
Phone: 206-328-8048
Fax: 866-592-8490
E-mail: cynthia@spenceranderson.com
Website: http://www.q-law.org/

• Pay: Up to $500 per week for 10 weeks.
• 2009 Deadline: Applications and all supporting materials must be submitted by March 20, 2009.  Applications are available online.  For more information about the application process, go to http://www.q-law.org/Default.aspx?pageId=167804.
• The GLBT Bar Association of Washington (“QLaw”) will sponsor law student summer internships beginning in the summer of 2009. Law students seeking low or unpaid summer internships serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (“LGBT”) community or people with HIV/AIDS are encouraged to apply. The Public Interest Summer Grant Program is designed to encourage innovative new projects while developing the critical skills necessary for law students developing careers in the public interest. Students will design legal projects to be sponsored by a non-profit, government, or tribal organization. The sponsoring organizations will provide the student with legal supervision and administrative support over the course of the ten (10) week internship.

Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties, The Nation Institute 
116 East 16th Street, 8th Floor 
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-822-0252
E-mail: info@nationinstitute.org
Website: http://www.nationinstitute.org/

• Pay: $1,000 honorarium.
• 2009 Deadline: All applicaitons must be postmarked by May 15, 2009. 
• The Masur Fellowship enables a first year law student to pursue significant summer activities in the practice areas of civil rights or civil liberties.
• Proposed activities may include a writing or research project, work with a public interest organization, work on a case under the supervision of a law faculty member or lawyer, or any other work in the areas of civil rights or civil liberties.
• Applicants should send a one-to-two page proposal to the Institute describing their intended summer project, along with a resume and the name of their faculty or organization sponsor. For more information, visit http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/masur.

FUNDING SOURCES AVAILABLE IN SPECIFIC REGIONS

ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Fellowships in Environmental Law
Contact: Julie Connell, Section Assistant
Phone: 312-988-5625
E-mail: connnellj@staff.abanet.org

• The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources is pleased to announce the sponsorship of several Fellowships for eligible law students during the summer of 2009.
• Each successful recipient will receive a $5,000 stipend ($6,000 for New York fellows) in exchange for participation in the Fellowship program.
• 2009 Deadlines: January 15, 2009 for California, Georgia, and Louisiana fellowships. Please check website for other states' deadlines.
• The Fellowship program is available to first and second year law students or third year night students from economically or socially disadvantaged or other underrepresented groups, including, among others, age, ability/disability, sexual orientation, cultural, linguistic, or geographic backgrounds.
• There is an 8-10 week minimum commitment wherein the Fellow will work on legal matters for a government agency or public interest organization in the fields of environmental, energy, or resources law, with emphasis on air pollution.
• For more information, visit the ABA website. 
  

Asian American Law Fund of New York
c/o Sylvia Fung Chin, Esq.
White & Case LLP
1155 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Contact: Sylvia Fung Chin
E-mail: schin@ny.whitecase.com
Website: http://www.aabany.org/

• Pay: $5,000 scholarship.
• 2009 Deadline: March 20, 2009.
• AALF of NY will fund up to three scholarships of $5,000 each. Each student is expected to volunteer at least 6 weeks, 35 hours per week, during the summer of 2008 at such project and to apply the award to the payment of law school tuition.
• Projects must be with non-profit organizations and must serve New York's Asian American community. Proposed projects for the summer of 2009 are included with the application. Applicants may propose their own projects. A proposed project should involve legal work and have a supervising attorney.
• Contact AALF for an application: http://www.aabany.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=83.

Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund (AEF) - Washington, DC
P.O. Box 23124
Washington, DC 20026-3124
Phone: 202-347-5634
E-mail: aefboard@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.aefdc.org/

• Pay: Stipends are generally $2,500 for 10 weeks or 400 total hours.
• 2009 Deadline: April 30, 2009. 
• AEF awards summer fellowships each year to law students from around the nation. The primary purpose of the fellowships is to fund a student’s internship with a public interest organization that benefits either the metropolitan Washington, D.C. community-at-large and/or the Asian Pacific American community.  Such organizations include governmental organizations and other non-profits serving the public interest. The internship must be unpaid (except for nominal payment for such items as transportation), arranged by the student, extend at least ten weeks or a total of 400 hours, and be based in the Greater Washington, D.C. area.
• Students must secure sponsorship, then apply to AEF for funding.
• Application materials and information are available on the Fund's website, at law schools, or from AEF, http://www.aefdc.org/.

Asian Pacific Bar Association of the Silicon Valley
White & Case LLP
3000 El Camino Real 5 Palo Alto Square, 9th Floor
Palo Alto, California 94306
Contact: Bijal V. Vakil
E-mail: apbasv@gmail.com
Website: http://www.apbasv.org/

• Pay: Up to four scholarships of $3,000 each.
• 2009 Deadline: By 5:00pm on Friday, March 20, 2009 
• APBA will award up to four scholarships of $3,000 each to recognize law students in the Bay Area who have overcome personal hardships or challenges, shown excellence and acheivement in law school; or demonstrated leadership and service to the Asian Pacific American community. 
• For more information, please visit http://www.apbasv.org/lawstudents/Scholarship%20APBASV%202009%20FINAL.pdf.

Charles H. Revson Law Students Public Interest Fellowship Program (LSPIN) - New York City Metropolitan Area
Public Interest Law Center
New York University School of Law
245 Sullivan Street, Room 430
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-998-6686
E-mail: pilc.info@nyu.edu or lspin@juris.law.nyu.edu
Website: http://www.law.nyu.edu/publicinterestlawcenter/financialassistance/revsonlspinprogram/index.htm

• Pay: $4,500 stipend.
• 2009 deadline: applications must be received by the applicant’s school by November 13, 2008 by 3pm.
• Students must work full time (35 hours per week) for ten weeks.
  

Florida Bar Foundation Legal Services Summer Fellowship Program
P.O. Box 1553
Orlando, FL 32802-1553
Contact: Margaret Hepworth
Phone: 407-843- 0045 or 800-541- 2195
Fax: 407-839-0287
Website: http://www.flabarfndn.org/
Contact: Margaret Hepworth, mhepworth@flabarfndn.org

• Pay: $5,500 stipend for first year students, $7,000 stipend for second year students.
• 2009 Deadline: January 22, 2009.  Application information will be located on the Foundation's website by November 15, 2008.
• Students must work full time for eleven weeks at a legal services organization in the state of Florida. Approximately 40 positions are available. 
• The fellowship commences with a two-day mandatory training and orientation seminar - to be held May 21 and 22, 2009 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - prior to the fellows arriving for work at the programs.  Housing, meals, and reaosnable travel expenses for the two-day training will be provided.  Fellows are scheduled to report to work at their programs on Monday, May 25, 2009 with the fellowship ending on Friday, August 7, 2009.

Goldmark Equal Access to Justice Summer Internship
Legal Foundation of Washington
1325 Fourth Ave, Suite 1335
Seattle, WA 98101-2509
Phone: 206-624-2536
Fax: 206-382-3396
Email: dtheories@legalfoundation.org
Website: http://www.legalfoundation.org/pages/goldmark_internship

• Pay: $8,000 stipend
• 2009 Deadline: Applications must be received by 5pm on October 17, 2008.
• A ten-week internship to be scheduled between May and August 2009 at the convenience of the intern and the program.
• Check the Legal Foundation's website for future host programs for the internship.

Google Policy Fellowship 
Email: policyfellowship@google.com
Website: http://www.google.com/policyfellowship/index.html

• Pay: $7,000 stipend for 10 weeks for the summer (June - August)
• 2009 Deadline: Applications must be received by December 12, 2008.
• Fellows will have the opportunity to work at public interest organizations at the forefront of debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation, copyright and trademark reform, consumer privacy, open government, and more.
• Check the Google  Policy Fellowship website for future host programs for the internship.

Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia - Washington, DC
P.O. Box 1011
Washington, DC 20013-1011
Phone: 202-388-4990
E-mail: info@hbadc.org
Website: http://www.hbadc.org/

• Pay: Stipend is $3,500.
• Deadline: Application must be postmarked by April 3, 2009. 
• Funds two fellowships for first and second year law students to work in a non-profit legal services agency in Washington, D.C.
• Students must secure sponsorship on their own, then apply to the HBA-DC for funding.
• For application procedures, see http://www.hbadc.org/site/page/foundation.

Janet Steiger Fellowship
ABA Section of Antitrust Law
321 North Clark
Chicago, IL 60610-4714
Phone: 312-988-5606
Email: Deborah Douglas - douglasd@staff.abanet.org
Website: http://www.abanet.org/antitrust

• Pay: $5,000 stipend. Please note that the Project in its discretion is able to provide Steiger Fellows with limited funds (up to $2000) for both travel and housing where a clear need is demonstrated.
• 2009 Deadline: January 30, 2009.
• Full-time, eight week minimum, summer fellowship program open to all first and second year law students. Through a working partnership with the National Association of Attorneys General, students will work in the consumer protection departments of the offices of state attorneys general. The following states are selected to receive a Steiger Fellow for the summer of 2009: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
• Applicants must submit an application form; resume; writing sample; and, statement of interest. The application form is available at http://www.abanet.org/antitrust/at-law-student/at-js-project.shtml.

Legal Aid Association of California, Dan Bradley Summer Fellowship Program
47 Kearny Street, Suite 705
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: 415-834 -0100
Fax: 415-834-0202
Email: cmoulton@pic.org 
Website: http://www.calegaladvocates.org/

• Pay: $3,500 Stipend.
• 2009 Deadline: April 10, 2009.
• Fellows must work a minimum of ten full time weeks at one of the LAAC member organizations and will receive a stipend of $3,500.
• Applicants must have a strong interest in working to defend and expand the legal rights of the poor and disadvantaged. People of color and students from low-income or working class backgrounds are paticularly encouraged to apply.
• For more information, see: http://www.calegaladvocates.org/about/item.Dan_Bradley_Fellowships.

Massachusetts Bar Foundation - Legal Intern Fellowship Program
Grants Administrator
Massachusetts Bar Foundation
20 West Street
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-338-0534
E-mail: foundation@massbar.org
Website: http://www.massbarfoundation.org/

• Pay: Stipends have a maximum amount of $6,000. Students may receive funding from other sources to finance the internship.
• 2009 Deadline: March 13, 2009.
• Offers approximately 6 stipends to law students who intern during the summer months at nonprofit organizations providing civil legal services to low-income clients in Massachusetts.
• Students must work 10 weeks.
• To apply, students must submit a resume, an official law school transcript, one letter of reference, applicant information form, essay (details on applicant information form), and an organization supporting statement form. Applications may be obtained on-line. For the 2009 application, see http://www.massbarfoundation.org/grant_programs/legal_intern/

New Jersey Summer Public Interest Legal Intern Program
PO Box 1357
Edison, NJ 08810-1357
Phone: 732-572-9100
E-mail: pkoncius@lsnj.org
Website: http://www.lsnj.org/internprog.htm

• Pay: 2008 Interns were paid at a rate of $550 per week for rising 2nd year students and $750 per week for rising 3rd year students.
• 2009 Deadline: All applications will be considered in the order in which they are received. Hiring decisions will be made on a rolling basis, beginning Fall 2008.
• The program places law students in public interest legal organizations in New Jersey. Students must apply directly to Legal Services of New Jersey, which will refer prospective candidates to participating employers for final selection. Every year, over 20 public interest and government organizations in New Jersey participate in the program.
• Program requires 10 weeks of work.

New York State Bar Association - Minority Fellowships in Environmental Law
New York State Bar Association
Environmental Law Section
One Elk Street
Albany, NY 12207
Contact: Lisa Batille
Phone: 518-463-3200
Website: http://www.nysba.org/

• Pay: Recipient will receive a $6,000 stipend for a minimum of ten weeks of summer employment.
• 2009 Deadline: November 17, 2008.
• For more information, see www.nysba.org/EnviMinorityFellowship 
• Law students are eligible for consideration if they are enrolled in a law school in New York State or are permanent New York State residents enrolled in a law school in another state.
• The winner of the fellowship must find his/her own placement.

Pennsylvania Legal Aid, Inc. - Martin Luther King Internship and Fellowship Program
118 Locust Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101- 1414
Contact: Cynthia Newcomer
Phone: 800-322-7572
E-mail: cnewcomer@palegalaid.net
Website: http://www.palegalaid.net/

• 2009 Deadline: January 31, 2009.
• Martin Luther King (MLK) Interns are assigned to local legal service programs across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Interns are selected and assigned by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Hiring and Training Committee.
• The Hiring Committee will assign selected interns to local legal service agencies.
• Salary and benefits are determined by the host program.
• Minority law students from any law school are invited to apply.
• For more information, see http://www.palegalaid.net/mlk_program.htm

Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) of Chicago Summer Internship Program - Chicago
c/o Foley and Lardner
321 North Clark Street, 28th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60610-4764
Contact: Susan Curry, Executive Director
Phone: 312-832- 5127
E-mail: scurry@pili-law.org
Website: http://www.pili-law.org/

• Pay: $5,000 stipend for ten weeks of full-time employment.
• 2009 Deadline: Beginning on October 15, 2008 the application period for summer of 2009 will open.  Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through March 2009.
• PILI recruits law students from across the nation for summer internships with public interest law agencies in the Chicago metropolitan area.
• For more information about participating public interest law agencies in the Chicago area, and for application materials, please see http://www.pili-law.org/PILIStudentInternships.htm
• Applicants should be first or second year law students.

Rappaport Honors Program in Law and Public Policy 
Suffolk University School of Law
Career Development Office
120 Tremont Street, Suite 120
Boston, MA 02108-4977

• Pay: Fellows receive a $7,000 stipend for ten weeks of full-time employment.
• 2009 Deadline: January 22, 2009.
• A total of twelve Rappaport fellows are selected each year from the six law schools in the Greater Boston region: Boston College, Boston University, Suffolk, Harvard, New England, and Northeastern.
• The program includes year-round components, including educational programming in public interest law and public policy, participating in a mentoring program, and completing a paper on a public policy issue at the close of the fellowship.
• For more information visit: www.law.suffolk.edu/offices/career/fellowships/rapp/ .

Robert M. Takasugi Summer Fellowship Program (California)
c/o Edwin Prather
Clarence & Dyer LLP
899 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone: 415-788-9000
E-mail: ekprather@takasugifellowship.com
Website:http://www.takasugifellowship.com/

• Pay: The Fellowship funds one or more summer law fellows in amounts up to $5,000.
• 2009 Deadline: March 27, 2009. 
• The Robert M. Takasugi Public Interest Fellowship was established to honor the Honorable Robert M. Takasugi (C.D. Cal.) for his service on the federal bench and a lifetime of community activism and leadership. The Fellowship encourages future generations of attorneys to embrace the qualities of selfless struggle, courage, intellect, and compassion that Judge Takasugi has exemplified through his many years as a state and federal judge, and as a member of the bar.
• All fellows must work at a public interest “sponsoring” organization, subject to approval by the Fellowship. In the past, the Fellowship has approved organizations classified as 501(c)(3)s (by the IRS Code) and public defenders’ offices. The organization must be in either the San Francisco Bay Area or the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. The fellows must work at a sponsoring organization for at least ten weeks during the summer of 2009. 
• Applications are available at http://www.takasugifellowship.com/.

South Asian Bar Association of New York Public Interest Fellowship
Contact: Gowri Krishna 
Email: gkrishna@urbanjustice.org

• 2009 Deadline: March 27, 2009 by 5pm. 
• SABANY annually awards four fellowships of $4,000 to outstanding law students who have demonstrated a commitment to public service so that they may spend their summer working unpaid in the New York area public interest sector.  Fellowships are awarded to first- and second-year law students either of South Asian descent working in an unpaid legal internship or those spending at least six weeks of the summer in an unpaid legal internship focusing on the needs of the South Asian community.
• To be eligible for the fellowship, candidates must be a first or second year law student either (i) of South Asian descent who will be spending at least ten weeks of the summer of 2009 in an unpaid legal internship in New York State, or (ii) who will be spending at least ten weeks of the summer in an unpaid legal internship in New York State which specifically focuses on the needs of the local South Asian community. 
• Applications are available on the SABANY website.

South Asian Bar Association of Washington D.C. Public Interest Fellowship
c/o Mr. Padma Shah
The H.T. Law Group
Waterfront Center
1010 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Suite 560
Washington, DC 20007

• 2009 Deadline: May 8, 2009.
• SABA-DC provides financial assistance in the form of summer fellowships to law students working at public interest organizations in the metropolitan D.C. area. The primary purpose of the fellowship is to help fund a student’s internship with a public interest organization for the benefit of the South Asian community and the metropolitan D.C. area. The number of Fellowships awarded, as well as the amount of each grant, will be determined by the SABA-DC Fellowship Committee and is based on SABA-DC’s fundraising efforts and the number of quality applicants it receives. SABA-DC will be sponsoring at least one fellowship grant of at least $1500 this year.
• Applications are available on the SABA-DC website.
  

Southern District of Texas Fellowship Grants
Federal Bar Foundation, Southern District of Texas
c/o Mary Richardson
P.O. Box 17145
Sugar Land, TX 77496-7145

• Pay: Grants of up to $3,000 are available for a limited number of law students who serve as interns for a minimum of six weeks during the summer of 2009.
• 2009 Deadline: April, 3 2009.
• Interns must work in the offices of any Southern District of Texas courts or agencies located within the Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Laredo, McAllen, or Victoria Divisions: U.S. District Court; U.S. Bankruptcy Court; U.S. Magistrate Judges; U.S. Trustee; FBI; Federal Public Defender; U.S. Attorney; EEOC; U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; U.S. Customs Service.
• Eligibility requirements: full-time student at any accredited U.S. law school; U.S. citizen; completion of at least 30 hours of course work by June 1, 2007; GPA which ranks in the top half of law school class (measured at time of application); have secured or will secure an internship with one of the courts or agencies listed above.
• To apply, send resume and a cover letter describing your interest in federal public service and any special circumstances you would like considered.
• The applicant must provide a letter to the Federal Bar Association from one of the participating agencies or courts stating that the recipient has been accepted for a summer internship.
• For more information, http://www.fbasouthtexas.org/Blask%20Flyer.pdf.

Virginia Law Foundation Fund for Justice and Education Public Service Internships
Virginia Law Foundation
700 East Main Street
Suite 1501
Richmond, VA 23219
Phone: 804-648-0112
Fax: 804-643-6340
Email: valawfdn@infionline.net
Website: http://www.virginialawfoundation.org/

• Funds are provided to each of Virginia’s eight American Bar Association (ABA)-accredited law schools, which include Appalachian School of Law, College of William and Mary, George Mason University, Liberty University School of Law, Regent University, University of Richmond, University of Virginia, and Washington and Lee University.  Applicants for the internships must be students at one of the above listed Virginia law schools and must apply to the law school (through career services office) for internship consideration.  The 2009 interns will be selected in the spring of 2009.  All internships must be served within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

WLALA Fran Kandel Public Interest Grant, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles

c/o Bet Tzedek
145 South Fairfax Ave, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Contact: Michelle Williams Court (mcourt@bettzedek.org)
Phone: 323-549-5840
Fax: 323-939-1040
E-mail: info@wlala.org
Website: http://www.wlala.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=25

• Pay: The maximum stipend/grant amount is $5,000.
• 2009 Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2009 by 5pm.
• The Foundation will make grants to law students for projects that make governmental and social services agencies more accessible and responsive to individuals or groups whose needs are not adequately met. The Foundation is interested only in proposals that will produce some tangible program, such as information booklets, brochures, educational curriculum and videotapes.
• Projects must benefit residents of Southern California.
• Application available at: http://www.wlala.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=25

** This list includes outside funding sources for students working in unpaid public interest summer positions as well as summer internship programs at organizations that hire a set number of paid interns/fellows each summer. Please be sure to check PSLawNet regularly for other current paid and unpaid summer internships.

** PSLawNet would like to thank the following member schools for their assistance in the creation of this list of summer funding sources: American University, Washington College of Law; City University of New York Law School; Loyola University Chicago School of Law; New York University School of Law; Stanford Law School; University of California at Davis School of Law; University of San Francisco School of Law; University of Virginia School of Law; and William and Mary School of Law.

LAW FIRM SPLIT SUMMER PROGRAMS

Several law firms have instituted programs that enable law students to work part of the summer with the firm, and part of the summer with a public interest organization, with the firm paying the students’ salaries for the entire summer. These generous plans allow law students to explore two types of legal practice and demonstrate the firms’ strong commitment to pro bono work.  See Yale Law School's Guide to Split Public Interest Summers, an annually updated listing of firms offering split summer programs.

Kirkpatrick and Lockhart Public Interest Fellowship Program
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson & Graham
Henry W. Oliver Building
535 Smithfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Contact: Jessica Schneider or Deborah Turner
E-mail: jschneider@klng.com or turnerd@pghfdn.org
Website: http://www.klng.com/lawstudents/studentspublicservice/fellowship.

• Sponsors three 4 week fellowships. $1,000 per week.
• The Pittsburgh Foundation and K&L Gates LLP are proud to offer the K&L Gates Public Interest Fellowship Program.  The fellowship was established in September 1999 to offer law students the opportunity to assist public service organizations located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Each summer, the program awards up to three successful candidates a fellowship that enables them to spend four weeks of their summer working at one of four designated public interest organizations.