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Creating Your Public Interest Career: A Path to Legal Innovation

Explore opportunities in public interest law and policy, featuring guest speakers sharing insights on legal entrepreneurship, social ventures, and innovative approaches to addressing legal needs. Learn about initiatives like Legal Job Corps, Justice Entrepreneurs Project, and incubator projects nurturing new lawyers. Discover impactful strategies for advocating social change and building a rewarding legal career. Find inspiration from success stories in wage theft cases, B Corps legislation, and social enterprises driving positive impact. Join the movement to shape a better world through law and innovation.

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Creating Your Public Interest Career: A Path to Legal Innovation

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  1. Public Interest Law & Policy Class 9 Ronald W. Staudt February 19, 2013

  2. Create Your Own Public Interest CareerGuest Speakers: Chris Williams and Sarah Kaplan Introduction: Too many lawyers yet massive unmet legal need… ABA- President Elect Silkenat proposed Legal Job Corps CBF- Justice Entrepreneurs Project Chicago-Kent's Incubator Project Nurtures New Lawyers Dawn Young, Chicago-Kent Director of Institutional Projects

  3. Chris Williams Winning Wage Theft cases- talking pointshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/wage-theft-illinois-restaurant_n_869296.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/quinn-signs-law-penalizin_n_665410.html

  4. Sarah Kaplan Being in business for profit can be a great wayto make the world a better place.http://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps/legislationMany of the social ventures I've been hearing about lately have the purpose of helping start other businesses. Here's an example with a good, illustrative video.http://unreasonableinstitute.org/we-believe/I heard the founder of The Stewards Market speak at a symposium at UIC last week.This non-profit was started by a man who quit futures trading in order to do this.  He's taking a business approach to lifting people up.http://www.stewardsmarket.com/social-enterprisesWindy City Harvest is training new farmers  At the same symposium, they spoke about their plan to start an incubator farm, where people with brand new farming businesses will be able to lease farmland and use shared equipment, while their business grows to the point that they can scale up and move on.http://www.chicagobotanic.org/windycityharvest/Check this out too.  It could lead to ways to get involved.https://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Enterprise-Alliance-Chicago-Chapter/163165077030369

  5. Next No Class on Thursday - Field Work for Case Study Presentations Rewrites and Addenda to Case Study Reports Due February 24, 2013 Class 11 — Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Fee Shifting Guest Speaker: Josh Karsh

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