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 2009, our summer associates were placed at the following organizations:

AARP: Legal Counsel for the Elderly
ACBF Parent Advocates (Juvenile Court Project)
AIDS Law Project
Alliance for Children's Rights
Anti Defamation League
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Center for Justice and Accountability
City Of Philadelphia Law Department
Colorado Legal Services Program
Committee Of Seventy
Communities for a Better Education
Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program
Enterprise Community
Federal Community Defender
Goddard Riverside SRO
Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law
Housing Court
Houston Volunteer Attorney Program
Human Rights Watch
Immigrant Legal Resources
InMotion
LA CAN (Community Action Network)
Legal Aid Society - Brooklyn Office for the Aging
Legal Clinic For Disabled
Mental Health Advocacy
MFY Legal Services
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)
National Veterans Legal Service Program
Northern California Innocence Project
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
NYLPI
Philadelphia Museum Of Art
Philadelphia VIP
PILCOP
Project H.O.M.E.
RAINN
Safe Horizon
Sanctuary for Families
Smithsonian
Solicitor General's Office
South Brooklyn Legal Services
Supoort Center for Child Advocates
Teach For America
WA Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs: EEO Project
Women Against Abuse
Women's Way

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.