Morgan Lewis’s Public Interest and Community Service (PICS) program for summer associates is intended to encourage the pro bono commitment in our most junior lawyers. In this program, summer associates can choose to forgo the traditional full-summer law firm experience by working alongside Morgan Lewis lawyers for the first half of the summer and in a full-time assignment with a nonprofit organization for the second half. Regardless of which option is selected, summer associates receive compensation for the entire 10-week program from the firm.
In 2007, our summer associates were placed at the following organizations.
- ACLU
- Aids Law Project
- APILO (Asian Pacific Islander Legal Organization)
- Ayuda Inc.
- Bet Tzedek
- CA Women's Law Center
- Cabrini Green Legal Aide Clinic
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- Committee of Seventy
- DC Public Defender
- Federal Public Defender, Capital Habeas Corpus Unit
- Habeas Corpus Research Center
- Housing & Services, Inc (HIS)
- Human Rights First
- Juvenile Law Center (Committee of Seventy)
- Juvenile Law Center, (Support Center for Child Advocates)
- Kairys & Rudovsky
- Lambda Legal
- Legal Aid Society - Brooklyn Neighborhood Office
- Legal Aid Society - Juvenile Rights Division
- National Geographic Society
- National Public Radio
- Parent Advocates Organization with the Juvenile Court Project
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent
- Public Counsel - Advancem Project
- Public Defender’s Office - DC
- Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (Juvenile Law Center)
- Rape, Abuse & Incest, National Network (RAINN)
- San Francisco Public Defender's Office
- Support Center for Child Advocates
- The Nature Conservancy
- The University of Chicago's Mandel Legal Aide Clinic.
- VLSP
- Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
- Washington Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs
We are pleased that our lawyers apply the same entrepreneurial spirit to pro bono practice development as they do to client development. As a result, many have developed close attorney-client relationships with significant public interest organizations.