Possible Federal Program to Provide Loan Relief for Public Service Lawyers

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http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/student_loan_relief_on_the_way_for_law_grads

Law school awards!!!

2009 Law School Awards

Nominations are now being accepted for the Outstanding Law School Faculty or Staff Award and the Exemplary Public Service Award for a Student or Group.
Equal Justice Works annually honors the outstanding public interest contributions of a law school faculty or staff member dedicated to public interest law and the exemplary public service work of a law student and a law student group or project.
Nominations may be self-appointed or coming from any person or group that knows the nominee well. This includes but is not limited to: deans; law school career services and public interest counselors; advisers, faculty, clinical professors, students, student groups and extern/intern supervisors.
The 2009 awards will be presented at the Equal Justice Works Luncheon in Washington, D.C. on October 24, 2009 and at the Equal Justice Works Awards Dinner on October 29, 2009.
Completed nominations should be emailed to awards@equaljusticeworks.org and are due no later than July 2, 2009 at 5 p.m. EDT. Nomination information and instructions are available online at www.equaljusticeworks.org.

Celebrate Pro-Bono

http://www.probono.net/celebrateprobono/

The ABA is encouraging the legal profession to Celebrate Pro-Bono Work during October 25-31st.  Make sure your school gets involved and register your event.

ABA Clerkships Announced!

ABA Division for Public Services: 2009-2010 Clerkship

 

The Division offers two Clerkship opportunities:

The first is a ten-week Spring/Summer Clerkship, open by competition, and offering law students entering their second or third year at an ABA-accredited law school the opportunity to design and complete a legal research and writing project in substantive areas of Division concern.  The second is a Fall/Winter Clerkship and typically involves conducting project research and writing; developing information for directories and other databases; coordinating survey development, distribution and results; or editing manuscripts for publication.

Fall/ Winter Deadline: Sept 1, 2009

Spring/Summer Deadline: Dec 1,2009

For More Info: http://www.abanet.org/publicserv/home.html

St. Thomas Student Giving Back and Hitting The Books

During the summer, St. Thomas student, Gigi  Wolf-Blanco, is giving back  and volunteering for 10-15 hours a week at the city of Miami attorneys office in an effort to expedite land use cases for citizens.  In addition to giving back to the community, she is also taking summer courses.

FIU’s Andrea Stone Working to Save The Everglades

Andrea Stone is interning with Friends of the Everglades in Miami. Friends of the Everglades was founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas as a nonprofit grassroots organization dedicated to preserve, protect and restore the Everglades through education, outreach and advocacy. Andrea is currently working on generating a master list of all litigation revolving around the Everglades and environmental issues in Florida and Federal law which would impact the Everglades. This list will be published in a newsletter later this summer.