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- Take the public interest oriented courses offered at NU and get to know the professors who teach those courses.
- Seek out a professor who is writing about a public interest topic and offer to be a research assistant for that faculty member.
- Join the club! Get involved at NU with Public Interest Law Group (PILG) and get funding with a Student Funded Public Interest Fellowship (SFPIF). On the national front, check out the National Lawyers Guild and National Association for Public Interest Law.
- Volunteer to help with public interest projects that interest you. Best of all, seek out work for an organization which you'd like to work after school.
- Go to public interest career fairs, especially the National Association of Public Interest Law (NAPIL) career fair, which takes place every fall in Washington, D.C. and the Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference (MPILCC) which takes place each winter in Chicago.
- Go to conferences where you can meet and talk with public interest lawyers and students. These include the Initiative for Public Interest Conference at Yale Law School, the National Lawyers Guild Convention (early fall), and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association's Conference (every December).
- Find a public interest mentor. For more information on developing a relationship with a public interest attorney, attend PILG meetings or contact the PILG Mentor Program Director, Henry Stark.
- Go to every seminar and hear every public interest-related speaker you can. Talk with the speaker afterwards, express your interest in public interest law, and ask for a business card. Don't miss PILG's Public Interest Law Week in November and the PILG Spring Speaker Series!
- Keep your eye on relevant publications and web sites for openings in public interest law.
- Get your name in print! Write an article on a public interest topic and submit it for publication in Northwestern's Public Interest Law Bulletin.
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