Lively Auction Raises $50K for Public Interest Law Internships
Law students sometimes get a bad rap for supposedly being most interested in landing a six-figure salary at a swanky law firm. In reality, though, many are idealistic and interested in public service careers.
But pursuing those kinds of careers can be difficult for students who may have taken out loans to attend law school, on top of the loans they took out to earn an undergraduate degree.
Which brings us to Saturday’s auction to benefit the Public Interest Law Association, which raised $50,000 to help offset the expenses of law students who take summer jobs in public-interest law, instead of more lucrative internships with law firms.
The event, with a “Project Runway” theme (with law professors George Geis and Karen Moran portraying the roles of television hosts Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum), included items ranging from a vacation in a Vienna condo to a fire-breathing performance by first-year law student Walker Fults. A graduation dinner put on by professor Anne Coughlin for eight students and their friends and family went for $2,100.
Other items included an hour of softball coaching with U.Va. baseball coach Brian O’Connor, a lunch for four with Slate magazine’s Dahlia Lithwick and a poker game with three professors and second-year law student Leo Wolpert, who recently won a World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas.
Here’s some video from the event, too:
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