Internship available
The Oregon State Bar Pro Bono Committee considers part of its mandate to increase law student participation in pro bono activities. Last year, our big idea for how to do this was to create a bulletin board website that would allow students to search and look up lawyers who sought assistance with pro bono projects. After (seemingly endless) consultation with representatives of all three Oregon law schools, we created (or, more properly, got Bill Penn, the IT guy at Lewis & Clark, to create) orprobono.org. You can use this site, as a lawyer, to post openings for student interns needed for pro bono projects, and you can search these postings if you're a student at Lewis & Clark, U of O Law School, or Willamette.
I don't know how many people are using it yet. There hasn't been much of a push to publicize it. I keep suggesting that we should create a Facebook page for it, since that's where all the kids hang out on the internets these days, but I keep getting shouted down in subcommittee teleconferences. The Bar is very conservative, and not quite ready to put its official stamp on a Facebook group. Maybe now that I'm chair of the committee, I can change that. Maybe now that I'm chair of the committee, I don't want to. Ah, that's how conservatism works...
I'm terribly overworked this month, and I suddenly have a big pro bono project on my hands, so I put up a posting on the site a few days ago. But I don't know how likely that is to be seen. So I thought, I might have better odds to reproduce it here, in a less formal way...
Basically, I'm looking for someone to help me do document review and maybe a little research on a pro bono personal injury case in Federal court. The ideal candidate will have some understanding of torts and civil procedure, and not mind working for free (hey, I am, after all) for a few hours a week in a spiffy downtown office, in exchange for glowing recommendations and resume brownie points. Also I'll probably buy you lunch, and you'll get to see first-hand how a small law office operates. The project is likely to last no more than two or three months at most, and will take no more than five hours a week (though I'm sure we can make more work if you really want it).
If you're interested or know someone who might be, please do say something.
I don't know how many people are using it yet. There hasn't been much of a push to publicize it. I keep suggesting that we should create a Facebook page for it, since that's where all the kids hang out on the internets these days, but I keep getting shouted down in subcommittee teleconferences. The Bar is very conservative, and not quite ready to put its official stamp on a Facebook group. Maybe now that I'm chair of the committee, I can change that. Maybe now that I'm chair of the committee, I don't want to. Ah, that's how conservatism works...
I'm terribly overworked this month, and I suddenly have a big pro bono project on my hands, so I put up a posting on the site a few days ago. But I don't know how likely that is to be seen. So I thought, I might have better odds to reproduce it here, in a less formal way...
Basically, I'm looking for someone to help me do document review and maybe a little research on a pro bono personal injury case in Federal court. The ideal candidate will have some understanding of torts and civil procedure, and not mind working for free (hey, I am, after all) for a few hours a week in a spiffy downtown office, in exchange for glowing recommendations and resume brownie points. Also I'll probably buy you lunch, and you'll get to see first-hand how a small law office operates. The project is likely to last no more than two or three months at most, and will take no more than five hours a week (though I'm sure we can make more work if you really want it).
If you're interested or know someone who might be, please do say something.