The Newsletter of the Public Interest Law Initiative
Happy Valentine's Day!
We wouldn't want to miss this chance to express our love for the PILI community across Illinois that helps us increase access to justice for people in need!
Register for Upcoming Pro Bono Roundtables Each year, PILI holds several Pro Bono Roundtables to bring together pro bono leaders from law firms, corporations, legal service agencies and law schools.
We'll be hosting the Legal Service Agency Roundtable on March 13th. Register now.
We'll be hosting the Corporate Pro Bono Roundtable on April 24th. Register now.
Each year, PILI selects one Intern and one Fellow to serve a 2-year term on PILI's Board of Directors.
Pilar Mendez is a second-year law student at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She was an Intern at the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois.
Irene Hickey Sullivan is a first-year associate at Kirkland & Ellis. She recently graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and completed her PILI Graduate Fellowship at Chicago Volunteer Legal Services last summer.
In 2017, low-income, rural residents received inadequate or no professional help for 86 percent of their civil legal problems. This article discusses some strategies to help increase legal services in rural areas.
Read more.
If you want to live a long and happy life-and of course you do-there's a growing body of evidence that volunteering can improve your physical and mental health and even increase longevity.
Read more.
PILI often is asked to pass along job postings looking for candidates with a commitment to service that might be of interest to our former Interns and Fellows. These opportunities might be in the public or private sectors. We will post opportunities on our website as we receive them.
View them here.
