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PILF President Bianca Gutierrez (left) and auction emcee Davis Blount
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State Law Public Interest Law Fund (PILF) hosted its fourteenth annual auction on Thursday, February 4, raising more than $9,000 to provide economic assistance to students pursuing public interest internships over the summer. For the first time, the auction took place in a virtual setting—but the excitement surrounding the event, and its positive impact on students, remained as high as ever.
Penn State alumna Christie Tillapaugh
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A Penn State alumna has recently made a gift to Penn State Law in University Park students who participate in the Public Interest Law Fund’s Summer Fellowship program. This program promotes the practice of law in the public interest arena. 
Modern-day slavery still exists in the world today in the form of human trafficking. Occurring in every state of the U.S., as many as 17,500 people are trafficked to the United States each year.
Penn State Law student Sean Jorgensen was awarded a ten-week summer fellowship from the Peggy Browning Fund. Jorgensen will be working at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., which has 1.6 million working and retired members.    
Family Law Clinic Director Jill Engle and student Kira Lecznar '13
Most cases handled by the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic are student-identified ones in which they think the clinic could play an important role. Not so in a case on appeal before the U.S. Third Circuit in which the clinic was appointed as amicus in a suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
In introducing Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams to his professional responsibility classmates, James Hendershot '14 said that Williams personifies the characteristics of a professionally responsible prosecutor the class had been studying. "We have learned that a prosecutor is more than just an advocate for victims of crime, but a minister of justice.
Students in the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic are awaiting a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Vance v. Ball State University, which could have a widespread impact on how employment discrimination cases are handled throughout the country. At issue in the case is whether the person who allegedly harassed Vance qualifies as a "supervisor" under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  
Across the bay from the University of California at Santa Cruz where Geoff Trautman ’13 studied politics as an undergraduate, the Watsonville office of California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) serves the state’s rural poor. Trautman works there providing legal support to the rural residents of Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.

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