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Public Interest

Aug. 4, 2009

Making Summer Associates Useful

Giving summer associates pro bono provides them a meaningful experience instead of a treadmill of memoranda, write Brent D. Sokol, Andrei Iancu and Kara Backus.

By Brent D. Sokol, Andrei Iancu and Kara Backus

Perhaps a lawyer's greatest joy comes from knowing that she has helped a client who understands and appreciates the help. If the client expresses, in some palpable manner, a heart-felt thanks to the lawyer, it probably doesn't get any better than that. But lawyers most often experience the law's arguably greatest content later in their careers, once they have forged direct relationships with the ...

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