2024 Summer Pro Bono & Public Interest Forum
Our Summer Pro Bono & Public Interest Forum is an annual tradition that brings together lawyers, summer associates, summer interns, and others interested in using their law degrees to help those in need. It’s also a great way to highlight the importance of pro bono and public-interest work throughout one’s legal career.
You may register to attend the Summer Forum anytime before Thursday, June 27. If you missed previous sessions, we will send you links to the recordings of those earlier events.
We kicked off the forum with an in-person and live-streamed keynote conversation with Fatima Goss Graves, President & CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. Ms. Goss Graves is a nationally recognized leader in the fight for gender justice and an expert in law, policy, and culture change. We enjoyed discussing her work across a broad set of issues central to the lives of women and girls – including income security and COVID relief, equal pay, ending sexual harassment and violence, health and reproductive rights, education access, and workplace justice – with a particular focus on outcomes for women and girls of color. A recording of our discussion is available to all registrants.
We now dive deeper into six substantive practice areas through virtual panel discussions where you will learn more about pro bono and public-interest work in DC and across the country. Each panel focuses on a different practice area, featuring presentations by national and local experts in that legal specialty. All discussions will take place from 12:00-1:30 pm ET. The panel topics will include:
- June 26 – Non-Litigation Pro Bono
- June 26 – Environmental Justice
- June 26 – Criminal Law & Death Penalty
- June 27 – Poverty Law
- June 27 – Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
- June 27 – Immigration & Human Rights
The Summer Forum is open to Washington Council of Lawyers members (join), participants in summer associate and summer intern programs, lawyers in law firms, government and public-interest organizations, law students, and others interested in learning more about incorporating public-interest law into their practice.
You can attend from anywhere! A single registration provides access to all three days of Summer Forum sessions, and recordings of each session will be sent to all registered attendees.
The cost is just $45 for WCL Members; $65 for Government & Public-Interest Lawyers, Interns, and Individual Law Students; and $105 for Law Firm Lawyers, Summer Associates, Corporate Law Department Lawyers, Law Department Interns, and the General Public.
Bulk registrations are available. Please email Christina Jackson (at cjackson@wclawyers.org) if you need any assistance.
Look for updates and join the conversation about the Summer Forum using #SumFo24 on Instagram, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn!