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PILI Graduate Fellowships
If you are graduating from law school and will be joining a Chicago law firm, you may be interested in a PILI Graduate Fellowship. Through this program, new law school graduates work, during the summer after their graduation, at one of 50 public interest agencies in the Chicago area. Graduate Fellows are sponsored by one of nearly two dozen Chicago law firms, and these law firms absorb the salary costs of their new associates working as PILI Fellows. PILI Fellowships also provide the scheduling flexibility to allow Fellows to participate in formal bar review and take the bar examination during their Fellowships. PILI ensures quality supervision by experienced lawyers at the agencies, provides a ten-week educational luncheon seminar series, and hosts social and networking events throughout the summer. Ask your firm's recruitment personnel whether your firm participates in the program. New firms are added each year. If your firm is not listed, ask whether you might participate anyway. |
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"I would recommend participation in the PILI program. First, it immerses you in a legal working environment without much of the accompanying stress of firm life. Second, it gives you the opportunity to understand non-profit organizations. Third, it provides an outlet for your future pro bono work. Finally, you get a chance to meet interesting people who you would likely not encounter otherwise."
Oscar Marerro, 2007 Jenner & Block Fellow at Alliance for the Great Lakes