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 2011, our summer associates were placed at the following organizations:
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- Chicago Legal Clinic
- City Law Department, Philadelphia
- inMotion
- Legal Aid Association of California
- LSNY–Manhattan Legal Services
- Muslim Advocates
- NatureBridge
- NPR
- Oakland Unified School District
- Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
- Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
- Public Interest Law Center Of Philadelphia
- Sanctuary for Families
- State of NJ, Office of the Public Defender
- Support Center for Child Advocates
- The Legal Aid Society – Juvenile Rights Division
- Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
- WNYC
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.