BC Law’s PuBC Law’s Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) set out this year to duplicate for public service aspirants the kind of networking event so common in the big law sector. Co-presidents Audrey Vila ’26 and Sam Raymond ’26 led the effort, which turned out to be a precedent-setting success.
More than 80 attorneys and students gathered at Alumni House on the Newton campus for the first ever Public Interest Networking Night on November 12. By reorganizing its alumni engagement and communications teams, PILF effectively tapped into the Law School’s public interest network, yielding a high turnout. That in turn gave students the chance to explore the scope and range of career paths with the pros: judges, clerks, legal aid and government lawyers, as well as attorneys in practice areas like consumer protection, immigration, and civil rights.
The event not only gave 1Ls an early opportunity to better understand what public interest means and gave internship and job applicants in all class years in-person connections, it also laid the foundation for future “networking nights.”
“Thank you, thank you, thank you to our Alumni Engagement team [Caroline Drysdale ’27 and Julia DiMartino ’28] for putting on this event,” Raymond said in recognition of the team effort the event took.
Vila expressed gratitude to the alumni attendees. “Countless attorneys went out of their way to tell students that they truly love their jobs,” she said, “and we couldn’t be more grateful for their advice and support.”
