The Virginia Law Foundation provided $72,000 in grants to support 28 internships during the summer of 2007.

To encourage young lawyers toward careers in public service and to support universal access to legal representation, the Virginia Law Foundation provided Public Service Internship stipends to twenty-eight selected students in seven of Virginia's ABA-accredited law schools, enabling them to work at law-related public service jobs during the summer of 2007. These summer internships provide needed services in areas where funding may not otherwise be available. As a result of the internship experience, many students pursue an increased commitment to ongoing public service throughout their legal careers.

Since the Virginia Law Foundation made its first public service internship awards in 1989, over $1,007,000 has been provided to support hundreds of internships throughout Virginia.

The Virginia Law Foundation is pleased to have the continued support of Williams Mullen and Dominion, both designated sponsors of the Virginia Law Foundation Public Service Internship program.

For more information about the Virginia Law Foundation's Public Service Internship Program, including sponsorship opportunities, please contact Sharon Tatum, Executive Director, at 804-648-0112 or by email at statum@virginialawfoundation.org.

Four law students say what the internship grant has meant to them.
(To view statements from all participants please download this pdf.)

	"My work was primarily focused on family law matters...I was able to work on a variety of tasks encompassing the gambit of civil procedure...this renew[ed]...my already strong personal commitment to public service." Matthew Lee (UVA '09) Rappahannock Legal Services
	"I worked on school discipline cases...assisted in editing the manual Education Law and Advocacy.(and) worked with attorneys on juvenile justice matters...to ensure that children held in correctional facilities were receiving the...services entitled to them. ...Just Children was a great way to begin my legal career and it will, no doubt, shape my career for years to come." Lindsay McCaslin (UVA '09) JustChildren, LAJC, Charlottesville
	"I wish every law student could have the experience that I had this past summer..I believe there would be many more pro bono hours volunteered each year...." Robert Brooks (ASL '08) Legal Services of Eastern Virginia, Norfolk
	"I learned about an array of legal issues common to the practice of 'poverty law' and I was humbled by the challenge of attempting to do so much in so little time." Ashley Brott (GMU '08) Legal Services of Northern Virginia, Fairfax