Capitol Hill Job Website http://HillZoo.com
This site contains information on jobs in
the capitol area. Some of these positions
are unpaid, while others pay minimally.
AALS Pro Bono Website http://www.aals.org/probono
This site contains information on the pro
bono programs at different law schools,
the AALS Commission on Pro Bono and Public
Service Opportunities report, Learning to
Serve, and a list of pro bono-related
publications.
ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono
and Public Service Website http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/probono/home.html
This site offers a variety of resources
relating to pro bono and public service
programs and opportunities.
Alliance for Justice http://www.afj.org/
The Alliance for Justice is a national association
of environmental, civil rights, mental health,
women's, children's, and consumer advocacy
organizations. Since its inception in 1979,
the alliance has worked to advance the cause
of justice for all Americans, strengthen
the public interest community's ability
to influence public policy, and foster the
next generation of advocates. The Alliance
for Justice sponsors a national "First
Monday" campaign each year to raise awareness
about a particular issue of social justice.
On Monday, October 1, 2007, AFJ will
release a new short documentary entitled
"Supreme Injustices." Following this
release, activists will use Supreme
Injustices as the centerpiece for
educational forums, debates, classroom
discussions, and other campus programs
focusing on the Roberts court.
American Civil Liberties Union www.aclu.org
This website contains information on membership
and contributions, the latest news about
issues the ACLU champions, contact information
for local affiliate ACLU chapters, ACLU
and the Supreme Court cases dating back
to 1994, legislative updates searchable
by issue and region, activism tools in the
Take Action Center, highlighted topics like
Get Busy, Get Equal and Reproductive Rights,
and forums for discussing all these topics
and much more.
Amnesty International www.amnesty.org/actnow/
Amnesty International works independently
and impartially to promote respect for all
the human rights set out in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty International
believes that human rights are interdependent
and indivisible - all human rights should
be enjoyed by all people at all times, and
no one set of rights can be enjoyed at the
expense of other rights. It concentrates
on ending grave abuses of the rights to
physical and mental integrity, freedom of
conscience and expression, and freedom from
discrimination.
Bazelon Center for Mental Health
Law www.bazelon.org
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
is a national legal advocate for people
with mental disabilities. Through precedent-setting
litigation and in the public policy arena,
the Bazelon Center works to advance and
preserve the rights of people with mental
illnesses and developmental disabilities.
Boston Resource Net http://www.bostonresourcenet.org/
ResourceNet represents a special collaboration
between two very different human service
organizations in Boston: Action for Boston
Community Development, Boston's anti-poverty
agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission,
the nation's first public health department.
These two organizations have come together
to provide visitors with accurate and up-to-date
information on the wide variety of human
services available across the city of Boston.
Center for Law and Education http://www.cleweb.org/
The Center for Law and Education strives
to make the right of all students to quality
education a reality throughout the nation
and to help enable communities to address
their own public education problems effectively,
with an emphasis on assistance to low-income
students and communities. For more than
a quarter of a century, the Center has worked
to bring about school- and district-wide
change across the country in order to improve
educational outcomes, particularly for low-income
students.
Center for Law and Social Policy http://www.clasp.org/
CLASP is an organization of program staff
whose work is concentrated on family policy
and access to civil legal assistance for
low-income families. Family policy projects
include welfare reform, workforce development,
child care, child support enforcement, child
welfare, couples and marriage policy, and
reproductive health and teen parents.
City Limits http://www.citylimits.org
City Limits is recognized for its authoritative
investigations into the city housing, welfare,
and healthcare bureaucracies and the criminal
justice system, as well as their hard-hitting
economic and environmental reporting. Lauded
as "an essential metro resource"
by the Village Voice, City Limits is a must-read
"for anyone who needs to understand
the politics of poverty and race in New
York City," according to Jonathan Kozol,
author of Rachel and Her Children and Savage
Inequalities. "I've found City Limits
the most useful, energized, politically
dynamic source of news on New York City,"
he adds.
civilrights.org http://www.civilrights.org
Home to socially-concerned, issues-oriented
original audio, video, and written programming, civilrights.org is committed to serving
as the online nerve center not only for
the struggle against discrimination in all
its forms, but also for building the public
understanding that it is essential for
this nation to continue its journey toward social
and economic justice.
Coalition on Human Needs http://www.chn.org/
The Coalition on Human Needs is an alliance
of national organizations working together
to promote public policies that address
the needs of low-income and other vulnerable
populations. The Coalition's members include
civil rights, religious, labor, and professional
organizations and those concerned with the
well being of children, women, the elderly,
and people with disabilities.
Equal Justice Works (EJW) http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/
202-466-3686
Equal Justice Works is a national organization
focused exclusively on providing opportunities
for law students to pursue careers in public
interest law. Our student group APIL (Association
for Public Interest Law) is a chapter member
of Equal Justice Works. EJW hosts a public
interest career fair each October which
brings together more than 200 employers from
around the country. EJW also sponsors both
summer and post-graduate fellowship opportunities
for law students. (This organization was
formerly known as the National Association
for Public Interest Law, NAPIL.)
Farmers' Legal Action Group http://www.flaginc.org/
Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. is a nonprofit
law center dedicated to providing legal
services to family farmers and their rural
communities in order to help keep family
farmers on the land. Since its inception,
FLAG has provided an extensive array of
legal services to financially distressed
farmers and their advocates and attorneys
nationwide.
Human Rights Internet http://www.hri.ca/index.aspx
The HRI site has become
the portal for human rights in cyberspace.
As such it constitutes an on-line resource,
information, and documentation center for
human rights activists and organizations,
and it is a center for education
around human rights issues and the role of
civil society.
Human Rights Resource Center http://www.hrusa.org/
The Human Rights Resource Center is an
integral part of the University of Minnesota
Human Rights Center and works in partnership
with that University's Human Rights Library
to create and distribute Human Rights
Education resources; train activists,
professionals, and students as human rights
educators; build advocacy networks to
encourage effective practices in human
rights education; and support the World
Programme for Human Rights Education (2005 -
2007) and the United Nations Decade for
Human Rights Education (1995 - 2004).
Human Rights First http://www.humanrightsfirst.org
Human Rights First works in the U.S. and
abroad to create a secure and humane world
by advancing justice, human dignity, and
respect for the rule of law. It supports human rights activists who fight for basic
freedoms and peaceful change at the local
level; protects refugees in flight from persecution
and repression; helps build a strong international
system of justice and accountability; and
works hard to ensure that human rights laws and principles
are enforced in the U.S. and abroad.
Legal Services Corporation http://www.lsc.gov/
This site was developed to inform about LSC's work and the services available;
increase the efficiency and client services
within grantee programs; and establish an
interactive exchange among Corporation staff,
grantees, clients, and potential clients.
Massachusetts Bar Association http://www.massbar.org/
National Center on Poverty Law http://www.povertylaw.org
The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty
Law, a national resource, champions law
and policy promoting equal opportunity and
support for low-income individuals, families,
and communities so that they can escape
poverty permanently. The Shriver Center
takes action to end poverty. From idea to
law to practice to monitoring, The Center
works to overcome the myriad issues that
combine to cause poverty.
National Center for Youth Law http://www.youthlaw.org
The National Center for Youth Law uses the
law to protect children from the harms caused
by poverty, and to improve the lives of
children living in poverty. The law can
offer hope and help for vulnerable children
and youth, but children need advocates to
make these laws work for them. NCYL speaks
for those children and their families, insisting
that they receive the benefit of laws that
offer them access to safety, shelter, health
care and hope for a better future.
National Consumer Law Center http://www.consumerlaw.org
The National Consumer Law Center is the
nation's consumer law expert, helping consumers,
their advocates, and public policy makers
use powerful and complex consumer laws on
behalf of low-income and vulnerable Americans
seeking economic justice.
National Employment Lawyers Association http://www.nela.org/home.cfm
The National Employment Lawyers Association
advocates for employee rights and workplace
fairness while promoting the highest standards
of professionalism, ethics and judicial
integrity. NELA is dedicated to promoting
the interests of individual employees and
assisting the lawyers who represent them.
National Fair Housing Advocate
Online http://www.fairhousing.com/
The National Fair Housing Advocate Online
is a resource designed to serve both the
fair housing advocacy community and the
general public with timely news and information
regarding the issues of housing discrimination.
National Health Law Program http://www.healthlaw.org/
The National Health Law Program is a national
public interest law firm that seeks to improve
health care for American's working and unemployed
poor, minorities, the elderly and people
with disabilities. NHLP serves legal services
programs, community-based organizations,
the private bar, providers and individuals
who work to preserve a health care safety
net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured
low-income people.
National Housing Law Project http://www.nhlp.org/
NHLP works to achieve its missions through
public policy advocacy and by providing
research, legal assistance, training, publications,
and technical assistance to a broad audience
of housing lawyers and advocates. NHLP focuses
on issues and problems that will have the
greatest impact on the housing rights of
the poor.
National Immigration Law Center http://www.nilc.org/
The National Immigration Law Center is dedicated
to protecting and promoting the rights of
low income immigrants and their family members.
NILC has earned a national reputation as
a leading expert on immigration, public
benefits, and employment laws affecting
immigrants and refugees. Their extensive
knowledge of the complex interplay between
immigrants' legal status and their rights
under U.S. laws is an essential resource
for legal aid programs, community groups,
and social service agencies across the country.
National Legal Aid & Defender
Association
http://www.nlada.org/
NLADA is the nation's leading advocate for
front-line attorneys and other equal justice
professionals - those who make a difference
in the lives of low-income clients and their
families and communities. Representing legal
aid and defender programs, as well as individual
advocates, NLADA is proud to be the oldest
and largest national, nonprofit membership
association devoting 100 percent of its
resources to serving the broad equal justice
community.
National Law Center on Homelessness
& Poverty http://www.nlchp.org/
The mission of the Law Center is to prevent
and end homelessness by serving as the legal
arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.
To achieve its mission, the Law Center pursues
three main strategies: impact litigation,
policy advocacy, and public education. To
amplify the work of its small staff, the
Law Center relies on interns, volunteers,
and the pro bono assistance of the private
bar.
National Legal Center for the Public
Interest
http://www.nlcpi.org/
The Center contributes to the development
of public debate and policy through its
educational publications, and educational
radio program, and educational forums, which
bring senior federal governmental and judicial
officials together with members of its constituency.
The Center also sponsors a legal intern
program for students of law and government.
National Senior Citizens Law Center http://www.nsclc.org/
The National Senior Citizens Law Center
advocates nationwide to promote the independence
and well being of low-income elderly individuals
and persons with disabilities. As a national
support center, NSCLC advocates through
litigation, legislative and agency representation,
and assistance to attorneys and paralegals
in field programs. NSCLC maintains a national
reputation for professional quality and
successful advocacy.
National State Attorney General
Program www.stateag.org
The Columbia Law School has created the
National State Attorney General Program.
The program is designed to help educate
students and the general public about current
state attorneys general throughout the
country. The
website contains a wealth of useful information
and has interactive maps that guide visitors
to the actual attorneys general websites.
Visitors to this website can also sign up
to receive the Program's newsletter.
National Veterans Legal Services
Program http://www.nvlsp.org/
The National Veterans Legal Services Program
is an independent, non-profit veterans service
organization that has been assisting veterans
and their advocates for more than 25 years.
NVLSP achieves its mission through education,
advocacy, litigation, training advocates
who represent veterans, and publications.
Native American Rights Fund http://www.narf.org
The Native American Rights Fund is a non-profit
organization that provides legal representation
and technical assistance to Indian tribes,
organizations, and individuals nationwide
- a constituency that often lacks access
to the justice system. NARF focuses on applying
existing laws and treaties to guarantee
that national and state governments live
up to their legal obligations.
Pro Bono Institute http://www.probonoinst.org/
The Pro Bono Institutes is a small non-profit
organization housed at the Georgetown University
Law Center that provides research, consultative
services, analysis and assessment, publications,
and training to a broad range of legal audiences.
The Pro Bono Institute is mandated to explore
and identify new approaches to - and resources
for - the provision of legal services to
the poor, disadvantaged, and other individuals
or groups unable to secure legal assistance
to address critical problems.
Rhode Island Bar Association
http://www.ribar.com/
Senior Law http://www.seniorlaw.com/
Here, senior citizens,
their families, attorneys, social workers,
and financial planners can access information
about Elder Law, Medicare, Medicaid, estate
planning, trusts, and the rights of the elderly
and disabled.
Federation of State Public Interest Research
Groups
http://www.uspirg.org/
The Federation is an alliance of state-based, citizen-funded
organizations that advocate for the public
interest. They uncover threats to public
health and well-being and fight to end them,
using the time-tested tools of investigative
research, media exposes, grassroots organizing,
advocacy, and litigation.
Public Justice (formerly Trial Lawyers for Public Justice)
http://www.tlpj.org/
Public Justice is the
trial law firm of the public interest community.
Supported by more than 3,000 trial lawyers and
public interest advocates throughout the
world, their cutting-edge litigation has
made new law and won justice for thousands.
National Center for Law and
Economic Justice (formerly the Welfare Law Center) www.nclej.org
The Center works with and on behalf of low-income
people to ensure that adequate income support
is available whenever and to the extent
necessary to meet basic needs and foster
healthy human and family development.
Equal Justice Works (EJW)
http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/
Equal Justice Works is a national organization
focused exclusively on providing opportunities
for law students to pursue careers in public
interest law. Our student group APIL (Association
for Public Interest Law) is a chapter member
of Equal Justice Works. EJW hosts a public
interest career fair each October which
brings together over 200 employers from
around the country. EJW also sponsors both
summer and post-graduate fellowship opportunities
for law students. (This organization was
formerly known as the National Association
for Public Interest Law, NAPIL.)
Peggy Browning Fund
http://peggybrowningfund.org/
This is a nonprofit corporation established
in memory of Margaret A. Browning, a prominent
labor attorney and member of the National
Labor Relations Board. The Fund's mission
is to provide law students with diverse,
challenging work and educational experiences
in the area of workers' rights. Roger Williams
University School of Law is a participating
law school in the Fund, and therefore, our
law students are entitled to apply for eighteen
summer internships in the field of labor
law. The internships pay $4000 for a ten-week
summer. Deadline is January 17, 2002. In
addition, the Fund hosts a National Student
Labor Rights Conference each fall, and one
RWU SOL student is entitled to attend, with
all expenses paid. Two other students have
the opportunity to have conference fees
waived.
PSLawNet (Public Service Law Network) http://www.pslawnet.org/
PSLawNet is a comprehensive database of
public interest jobs, fellowships, internships,
and pro bono opportunities. 120 law schools
and 10,000 law-related public service organizations
are members of this network. Roger Williams
University School of Law subscribes to this
database for the use of our law students.
You must register your user profile and
then you will have access. Instructions
for use are available in the Feinstein Institute
for Legal Service.
Society of American Law Teacher
(contains announcements, public interest
job openings) www.saltlaw.org
Click on "job openings"
Swearer Center for Public
Service
http://swearercenter.brown.edu/
The Brown University Swearer Center for
Public Service web site lists a number of
public service opportunities, community
projects, and resources in Rhode Island
in addition to public interest job opportunities.
