{"id":42087,"date":"2017-02-01T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=42087"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:58:11","slug":"public-interest-law-program-applications-being-accepted-beginning-february-6-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/02\/01\/public-interest-law-program-applications-being-accepted-beginning-february-6-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Interest Law Program Applications Being Accepted Beginning February 6, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Public Interest Law Program \u2013 Summer 2017:<\/u> <\/strong>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 <strong>Summer 2017 <\/strong>Public Interest Law (PIL) Program will be accepted beginning Monday, February 6, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Students interested in applying for a <strong>Summer 2017 <\/strong>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<p>Cleveland Homeless Legal Assistance Program<\/p>\n<p>Community Legal Aid Services of Akron<\/p>\n<p>City of Canton, Public Safety and Service Departments<\/p>\n<p>Council of International Programs USA Mahoning County Prosecutor<\/p>\n<p>National Labor Relations Board Ninth District Court of Appeals Ohio<\/p>\n<p>Civil Rights Commission U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Stark County Public Defender&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Stow Law Department<\/p>\n<p>Summit County Prosecutor<\/p>\n<p>University of Akron Legal Clinic\/Appellate Review Office<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit<\/p>\n<p>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 Asst. Dean of Career Planning, Alisa Benedict O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to submit your application for <strong>SUMMER 2017 <\/strong>PIL funding is<strong><em><u> Monday, April 10\u00a0at 12:00 Noon.<\/u> \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>You must secure a public interest placement <em>before <\/em>submitting your application. Visit for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/law\/curriculum\/extern-register.dot\">http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/law\/curriculum\/extern-register.dot<\/a> application materials and more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Interest Law Program \u2013 Summer 2017: 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 Summer 2017 Public Interest Law (PIL) Program will be accepted beginning Monday, February 6, 2017. Students interested in applying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/02\/01\/public-interest-law-program-applications-being-accepted-beginning-february-6-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Public Interest Law Program Applications Being Accepted Beginning February 6, 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42087","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\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42087\/revisions\/42103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}