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 program from the firm.

In 2012, our summer associates were placed at the following organizations:

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• BoardSource
• Cabrini Green Legal Aid
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• City of Philadelphia Law Department
• Juvenile Law Center
• Legal Aid Society – Brooklyn Neighborhood Office
• Legal Aid Society of Orange County
• LegalArt
• National Center for Lesbian Rights
• National Georgraphic Society
• National Public Radio
• New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
• Open Society Justice Initiative
• Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (NY)
• Sancutary for Families
• SF Public Defender's Office
• Sierra Club
• Smithsonian
• VLSP

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.