{"id":2780,"date":"2012-01-06T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2012-01-06T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:51:08","slug":"visit-public-counsel-for-various-public-interest-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"Visit Public Counsel for Various Public Interest Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Counsel is the largest <em>pro bono<\/em> law office in the nation and works with major law firms to change people&#8217;s futures.\u00a0Their staff of fifty-one attorneys and forty-six support staff &#8211; including five social workers &#8211; along with over 5,000 volunteer lawyers, law students and legal professionals assisted over 32,000 low-income children, youth, adults and families, as well as eligible community organizations last year. The value of these free legal services provided during 2010 is conservatively estimated at over $88 million.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1970,\u00a0Public Counsel is\u00a0the public interest law firm of the Los\u00a0 Angeles County and Beverly Hills Bar Associations, as well as the Southern\u00a0 California affiliate of the Lawyers&#8217; Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.<\/p>\n<p>Public Counsel&#8217;s activities are far-ranging and impact a wide spectrum of people who live at or below the poverty level.\u00a0 Volunteer attorneys have the opportunity to work on a variety of different projects-large and small, litigation and transactional matters.\u00a0\u00a0Staff provides training, model pleadings and forms and consultations to volunteers.\u00a0 The substantive areas in which Public Counsel\u00a0works include Veterans Advocacy, Appellate Law, Community Development, Early Care and Education Law, Homelessness Prevention Law, Children\u2019s Rights and Consumer Law.<\/p>\n<p>For information and opportunities, please visit the <a title=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publiccounsel.org\/about_us?id=0004\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Counsel is the largest pro bono law office in the nation and works with major law firms to change people&#8217;s futures.\u00a0Their staff of fifty-one attorneys and forty-six support staff &#8211; including five social workers &#8211; along with over 5,000 volunteer lawyers, law students and legal professionals assisted over 32,000 low-income children, youth, adults and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,24,11,17,29,9,7,15,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1l-information","category-2l-information","category-3l-information","category-alumni","category-general-announcements","category-ll-m-info","category-post-graduate-opportunities","category-public-interest-opportunities","category-school-year-opportunities","category-summer-opportunities","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}