Public Interest Law Program \u2013 Spring 2016: Each semester (spring, summer and fall), the Law School awards a stipend to a number of students who have secured a public interest internship. Applications for funding for the Spring 2016 Public Interest Law (PIL) Program will be accepted beginning Monday, January 11, 2016. <\/p>\n
Students interested in applying for a Spring 2016 Public Interest Law award should begin thinking now about securing a placement for their spring PIL work experience. The Public Interest Law Program supports and encourages those students who would like to gain experience in public interest areas. Recent local placements have included:<\/p>\n
Cleveland Homeless Legal Assistance Program
\nCommunity Legal Aid Services of Akron
\nCity of Canton, Public Safety and Service Departments
\nCouncil of International Programs USA Mahoning County Prosecutor
\nNational Labor Relations Board Ninth District Court of Appeals Ohio
\nCivil Rights Commission U.S. Attorney’s Office
\nStark County Public Defender’s Office
\nStow Law Department
\nSummit County Prosecutor
\nUniversity of Akron Legal Clinic\/Appellate Review Office
\nU.S. Attorney’s Office
\nU.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit<\/p>\n
If you think you would like to obtain a public interest internship, but have no idea how to line up a placement, please feel free to call upon Career Planning Director, Alisa Benedict O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n
The deadline to submit your application for SPRING 2016 PIL funding is Friday, January 25 at 12:00 Noon. You must secure a public interest placement before submitting your application. Visit for http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/law\/curriculum\/extern-register.dot application materials and more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Public Interest Law Program \u2013 Spring 2016: Each semester (spring, summer and fall), the Law School awards a stipend to a number of students who have secured a public interest internship. Applications for funding for the Spring 2016 Public Interest Law (PIL) Program will be accepted beginning Monday, January 11, 2016. Students interested in applying … Continue reading “Spring Public Interest Fellowship application opens 1\/11\/16”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-bono-community-service"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31687\/revisions\/31691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}