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PI/PS DAY

What it is:
Public Interest/Public Sector Legal Careers Day (PI/PS Day) is hosted each February by the Public Interest Clearinghouse and nine Northern California Law Schools: Golden Gate University School of Law, New College of California School of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, Stanford Law School, University of California Berkeley School of Law, University of California Davis School of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, and University of the Pacific McGeorge School of the Law. 

The Northern California Consortium of Law Schools' policy requires that employers use Formal Interviews as a formal step in their hiring processes and that informational or optional interviews be reserved for the Meet the Advocates portion of PI/PS Day.

Participating employers at PI/PS Day must have at least one paid, licensed attorney on staff who is willing and able to supervise the students. Additionally, the bulk of the work performed by law students and entry level attorneys must be of a substantive legal nature.

When:
The 25th Annual Northern California Public Interest/Public Sector Legal Careers Day will be held on Saturday, February 7, 2008 at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Why:
PI/PS Day provides law students an opportunity to meet and interview with public interest and public sector legal organizations.  The event also gives organizations exposure to a large group of people dedicated to public service, a chance to speak with and formally interview a large, diverse group of law students, and a forum for interacting with other public service organizations and government agencies. 

PI/PS Day consists of:

1. Formal Interviews: Organizations conduct formal, pre-screened interviews at PI/PS Day for paid, work-study or volunteer positions.  These interviews are open only to students at the nine sponsoring schools.

2. Meet the Advocates: During Meet the Advocates, representatives from various organizations and agencies sit at tables and students circulate and speak with them informally.  Students do not need to make any advance arrangements with individual organizations for these sessions.  Meet the Advocates is an excellent chance to learn about the work done by a large number of organizations and to explore opportunities with them.  Each year, many students attending the MTA sessions are offered interviews after PI/PS Day – and these often result in jobs. MTA is from 9:30am - 2pm.

For more information, please email PIPSDay [at] pic.org.

Below is a list of employers who participated in the 2008 event:

Formal Interviews:

1. AIDS Legal Referral Panel
2. AIDS Legal Services, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
3. API Legal Outreach
4. Asian Law Alliance
5. Bay Area Legal Aid
6. Bet Tzedek Legal Services
7. Brayton Purcell
8. California Appellate Project
9. California Coastal Commission
10. Center for Biological Diversity
11. Center for Food Safety
12. Center for WorkLife Law
13. Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
14. Centro Legal de la Raza
15. Child Care Law Center
16. Children's Law Center of Los Angeles
17. City & County of San Francisco Human Rights Commission
18. Columbia Legal Services
19. Communities for a Better Environment
20. Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
21. Consumers Union
22. Contra Costa County Office of Public Defender
23. County Counsel - San Mateo County
24. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
25. Disability Rights Education & Defense
26. Disability Rights Legal Center
27. DNA – People’s Legal Services
28. Drug Policy Alliance, Office of Legal Affairs
29. East Bay Community Law Center
30. Environmental Law Foundation
31. Eviction Defense Collaborative
32. Fair Housing Law Project
33. Family Law Facilitator/ Self-Help Center
34. Family Violence Law Center
35. Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc.
36. Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection ( Washington, DC)
37. Franchise Tax Board
38. Habeas Corpus Resource Center
39. HomeBase
40. Homeless Action Center
41. Justice First, LLP
42. Justice Now
43. Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Lyons & Greenwood
44. La Raza Centro Legal
45. Lambda Legal
46. Lawyers for Clean Water, Inc.
47. Legal Advocates For Children and Youth
48. Legal Aid Association of California
49. Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
50. Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
51. Legal Community Against Violence
52. Legal Services for Children
53. Legal Services of Northern California
54. Los Angeles County Public Defender
55. Maricopa County Attorney's Office
56. Mental Health Advocacy Project
57. National Center for Lesbian Rights
58. National Center for Youth Law
59. National Employment Lawyers Association
60. National Housing Law Project
61. National Labor Relations Board ( San Francisco)
62. National Labor Relations Board, Region 32 ( Oakland)
63. Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
64. Office of General Counsel, State Bar of California
65. Office of the State Public Defender ( San Francisco)
66. Prison Law Office
67. Prisoner Legal Services
68. Pro Bono Project Silicon Valley
69. Protection and Advocacy
70. Public Advocates
71. Public Counsel Law Center
72. Public Health Institute
73. Public Interest Law Firm
74. Public Interest Law Project
75. San Diego County Public Defender's Office
76. Schneider & Wallace
77. State Bar of California, Office of Chief Trial Counsel
78. Superior Court of California, County of Alameda
79. Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project
80. Transgender Law Center
81. Tri-Valley CAREs
82. U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division
83. U.S. Dept. of Labor - Office of Administrative Law Judges
84. U.S. Department of Labor/Office of the Solicitor
85. USDOJ -- Environmental Enforcement Section
86. Volunteer Legal Services Program (VLSP) / Homeless Advocacy Project
87. Watsonville Law Center
88. Youth Law Center

Meet the Advocates: