Certain of the law schools participating in the Program have agreed to review applications and, by a mechanism selected by them, assist us with the initial screening and identification of applicants for the PDLG Program. Please check with your school's Career Services Office to determine if it has a committee in place this year.

Where such a law school committee is in place, it will review applications and select a predesignated number of candidates to be interviewed by the PDLG Selection Committee (the "PDLG Committee"). All of those students will be interviewed by the PDLG Committee. The law school will evaluate applicants based on the criteria listed above and based on their familiarity with the applicants and the applicant’s work. At these schools, the applications will be submitted to the person designated by the career services office. No applications from those schools should be sent to the PDLG directly by the applicant - they will only be returned to the school committee.

Some law schools have decided that they would prefer that the initial screening be performed by the PDLG Committee. For applicants from those schools, the PDLG Committee will review the applications and select those to interview based on the criteria listed above. At these schools, the applications will be submitted to the PDLG Summer Program Committee, c/o Lois Kimbol, Esquire, Dechert LLP, CIRA Centre 2929 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2808.

If your law school does not participate in the PDLG Program and you are interested in applying, please contact Lois Kimbol at Lois.kimbol@verizon.net for further information before preparing and submitting your application.

The applications for summer 2010 are due on January 22, 2010.