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Clinics

  • The Andy and Gwen Stern Community Learning Clinic 
    • The Andy and Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic allows students to help Drexel’s neighbors in the Mantua and Powelton Village communities address problems they face with employment, housing, mass incarceration and other legal issues.
  • Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic 
    • offers students the unique opportunity to represent indigent individuals in immigration matters, at both the trial and appellate level.
  • The Civil Litigation Field Clinic
    • Operates in tandem with the Family Law Unit of Philadelphia Legal Assistance, allows students to engage in a broad array of activities, including representing survivors of family violence in protection from abuse and custody matters. Students handle a case from the initial intake through representation and will act as the clients lead counsel.
  • The Criminal Litigation Field Clinic
    • Operates in partnership with the Defender Association of Philadelphia, allows students opportunities to represent clients in preliminary hearings on felonies and to argue legal motions and try misdemeanor cases in municipal court.​​​​​​​

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Public Interest Summer Funding

Drexel's Public Interest Experience (PIE) provide stipends to our students who are taking unpaid, summer public interest positions. These students must demonstrate their commitment to the public interest and intend to pursue a public interest career after law school. The purpose of the prize is to offset the costs of living for students who incur significant financial burden by taking an unpaid position for the summer. The Public Interest Experience Prizes Board (PIE Prizes Board) hopes students will gain invaluable experience, skills, contacts, and insight to further enable them to find employment after law school in the competitive practice of public interest law. Both 1L and 2L students who volunteer with the Public Interest Auction Committee are eligible to apply.

Each year, the law school hosts the Public Interest Experience Auction, an auction for our students who take unpaid summer jobs with public interest organizations. Prizes funded by our auction help our students make a crucial difference in their communities.

Contact Rashida West, Director of Pro Bono and Public Interest 

Summer Public Interest Programming