Public Interest Program
Lewis & Clark is home to several pro bono campus organizations and two public interest coordinators. The law school encourages pro bono involvement by providing additional honors on the transcripts of students who document 30 or more hours of pro bono legal work, or 30 or more hours of community-service work during the course of the school year.
In addition, the law school is host to the Public Interest Law Project (PILP). PILP was founded by L&C students in 1990 to encourage law students to pursue careers in public interest. It is a funding organization for pro bono legal work done by students and graduating students. The organization also helps graduates of the school establish loan repayment programs for graduates who work in public interest. Each year PILP holds a charity auction and a funding application process in order to provide pay for summer work and loan repayment. In summer 2006, 18 students were provided with a summer stipend for legal work. The annual auction, combined with other fundraising, typically provides stipends to 10 to 15 students per summer.
For the past 7 years, Lewis & Clark law students and alumni have participated in the annual Rose Festival dragon boat races on the Willamette River sponsored by the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association. The school's dragon boat team is named "Scales of Justice."
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