George received a PILP award in 1996 and spent the summer doing environmental advocacy work.

Public Interest Law Project (PILP) is a student-run organization founded by Lewis & Clark law students in 1990 to help fill the justice gap between those who need attorneys and those who can afford attorneys. PILP helps fill this gap by providing students ways to afford to take on this work both as students and as lawyers.

For students, PILP provides stipends (PILP Summer Awards) for otherwise unpaid summer legal work at nonprofit legal advocacy organizations, legal aid clinics, public defender’s offices, and other public interest organizations.

For graduates, PILP supports Lewis & Clark’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program, which helps low-paid public interest attorneys afford to pay their student loans. Both of these programs help make public interest work an economic reality for students and alumni.

Although most law schools in the U.S. now have an on-campus group that promotes public interest work, PILP is proud to be among the first such student groups in the United States.

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