Annual Summer Public Interest Fellowship Auction

Please join us at our Annual Summer Public Interest Fellowship Auction:

Thursday, March 25, 6 pm
UDC Windows Room
4200 Connecticut Ave., NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20008

Your donation or purchase of items does QUADRUPLE duty, supporting the individual student, helping the School of Law as a whole, providing support for the host organization or agency, AND helping the individual clients or public interest cause!

As always, this year's Auctionwill feature live music, beer and wine, and great food! There will be both live and silent auctions. And there is no admission charge.

Please plan to join us, consider donating an item, and, of course, feel free to foward this e-mail!

Thanks!

- Joe Libertelli

About the Joe RauhSummer Public Interest Fellowship Program

Experience tells us that summer jobs are among the most effective training grounds for building student expertise and commitment, make valuable professional contacts, and provide vitally needed legal services - often to individuals who otherwise could not afford a lawyer. Unfortunately, the very organizations and agencies most engaged in this type of work, and most in need of student support, often cannot afford to pay students for their work. To address this operational paradox, several years ago, our School of Law began to raise funds from law firms, friends and alumni to provide Summer Public Interest Fellowships. Based on the success of this experience, the School of Law now supports Fellowships for all qualifying first year students - and for as many second year students as possible.

Students receiving the Fellowships work full-time, for a minimum of ten weeks, supervised by an attorney, in support of a public interest, governmental or judicial office. The School of Law provides stipends to Fellows in the amount of $3,000. Recent placements have included: Advocacy Incorporated; AFGE Local 12; Cache County Attorney; CAIR Coalition; Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services; Center for Constitutional Rights; Childon County District Attorney's Office; The Children's Law Center; Clark Co. Public Defender's Office; Community Service and Development Clinic; D.C. City Council; D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings - Judge Mahon; D.C. Office of the Attorney General; Montgomery County Public Defender's Office - Juvenile Division; Neighborhood Legal Services Program; Polaris Project; Public Defender's Office of Santa Clara County, CA; Public Defender Service of DC; Rappahannock Legal Services; UDC-DCSL HIV/AIDS Clinic; and UDC-DCSL Juvenile and Special Education Clinic.

Please consider offering one or more items and coming on out to the Auction on Thursday March 25. If you can't join us, you can still help - your financial contributions are gladly accepted via www.law.udc.edu/donations or by check made out to the "DC School of Law Foundation" with a note to "Summer Fellowships" and sent:

c/o Shelley Broderick, Dean

UDC David A. Clarke School of Law

4200 Connecticut Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20008

Thank you - and I hope to see you on March 25!!

Joe Libertelli
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
4200 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 274-7338