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2010 PHILADELPHIA DIVERSITY LAW GROUP FIRST-YEAR SUMMER
PROGRAM
The Philadelphia Diversity Law Group is
pleased to invite first-year law students to submit applications for
participation in the PDLG First-Year Summer Program for the summer of 2010. The
PDLG First-Year Summer Program (the "PDLG Program") offers first-year students
an additional route to summer employment in
outstanding law firms and corporate law departments. Application through this
program will not preclude a student from otherwise seeking or accepting a job
at any participating organization or preclude the organization hiring the
student outside of the program.
The PDLG Program is designed to
identify first year law students who have overcome obstacles in pursuing a
legal career or come from disadvantaged backgrounds or from
backgrounds that are underrepresented in the Philadelphia legal community and
who have demonstrated the ability - based on academic achievement, writing
ability and other accomplishments - to succeed in the summer programs run by
our member organizations. The PDLG hopes this program will enable a group of
those students to get summer clerkships in Philadelphia and thus allow them to
experience the law firm or corporate law environment in Philadelphia and,
perhaps, help them "kick-start" their legal careers.
The law firms that
participated in the PDLG Program in 2009 were Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP; Pepper Hamilton, LLP; Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP; Reed Smith LLP; Dechert LLP; Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP; Cozen O'Connor, PC.; Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP;
Dilworth Paxson LLP, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP; Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP; Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, LLP; Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP; DLA Piper US LLP; Ballard Spahr, White and Williams, Blank Rome LLP, Archer & Greiner, P.C., and Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC. The law departments that
were participating this year are those of Sunoco, Inc., Temple University, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company,
Comcast Cable, ACE, and Vanguard. We anticipate that many
will also participate in 2010.
PDLG and
Student Contacts for More Information
The PDLG is committed to increasing the
number of attorneys of diverse backgrounds working at law firms and corporate
law departments in the Philadelphia area to make our members stronger, more
productive, and better equipped to address the challenges of the twenty-first
century. We have implemented this program to foster that diversity. We look
forward to your participation.
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