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 2008, our summer associates were placed at the following organizations.
- ACLU
- ACLU National Prison Project
- ACLU of Florida
- Aids Law Project
- Association of Corporate Counsel
- California Attorney General, Consumers Division
- Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Hastings
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- Children's Law Center
- Education Law Center
- Goddard Riverside SRO Law Project
- Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program
- inMotion
- Juvenile Court Project
- Juvenile Law Center
- La Raza Centro Legal
- Legal Services for Children
- Lone Star Legal Aid
- National Veterans Legal Service Program
- RAINN
- Santa Cruz Public Defender's Office
- Smithsonian
- South Brooklyn Legal Services Foreclosure Prevention Project
- Support Center for Child Advocates
- Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs
- Yosemite National Institute
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.