Now she is a public interest student, but she was arguing on behalf of all students there".
The Stanford University Law School invited the lawyer Lynne Stewart to be a Mills Public Interest Mentor in a program the school says is meant "to provide public-interest students the opportunity to meet and learn from practitioners and scholars in public service".
Equal Justice Works is a national leader in creating public interest opportunities for law students and lawyers.
Without public interest internships, young law students may miss an opportunity to learn about the joys and challenges of long-term public interest careers from experienced attorneys.
We work to provide public interest opportunities for law students and lawyers and to reduce the financial barriers preventing many from pursuing public service careers.
Which explains why most students still end up shopping on campus, said Dave Rosenfeld, a spokesman for Maketextbooksaffordable.org, a site operated by a coalition of student public interest research groups.
Equal Justice Works provides support to public interest attorneys, and helps law students learn more about all aspects of managing their student debt.
Some law schools offer loan repayment assistance programs, known as LRAPs, which help law school graduates who pursue public interest law to repay their student loans.
"These programs overpromise, underdeliver and load vulnerable students up with way too much debt," said Chris Lindstrom, higher education program director at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, part of a coalition of education, consumer, student and public interest groups supporting the regulations.
The State PIRGs for Higher Education, a public interest research group, estimated a student holding $20,000 in educational loans at today's rate would spend an additional $7,807 on a 20-year loan if the rate was allowed to fluctuate.
