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EJW Summer Corps
If you're a law student doing public interest legal work this summer, be sure to check out the Equal Justice Works Summer Corps. It only takes 10 minutes to complete the online application, and you could get a cool $1000 for your efforts, so long as your job qualifies. EJW started taking applications Wednesday, and they're considering them on a rolling basis, so the sooner you apply, the better your chances. Think of it as a $1000 study break. Who wouldn't want that?
Posted April 30, 2004 05:35 AM | law school
YAY! I actually applied a few days ago -- our Public Interest office sent me that link. For those of us working in P.I., this is so cool.
Posted by: Cinnamon at April 30, 2004 06:56 PM
Of course, those of us who work on the prosecution side are left out, as usual.
Posted by: justin at April 30, 2004 10:30 PM
Left out? You have the resources of the state behind you, my friend.
Ok, I'm kidding, but only partly. I still don't exactly understand the distinction, but my hazy interpretation of why some public interest grants and scholarships exclude people working on the prosecution side is that prosecutors aren't providing direct service to indigent or otherwise underserved clients. Does that distinction make sense? I'm not sure; certainly not all the time. But it's a simple way for an organization like EJW to limit the pool of applicants.
Out of curiosity: Are you working the prosecution side this summer b/c you'd like to be a prosecutor or do you just think the experience will be good for whatever you eventually hope to do?
I'm working the defense side primarily for the experience. I'm highly ambivalent about whether either side is "better" than the other (perhaps because the point of the system is supposed to be that the "better" side depends on the case), but I do think it would be harder for me to be a prosecutor than a defender for most cases.
Posted by: ambimb at May 1, 2004 07:20 AM
