At the heart of Isabel Dufford’s interest in law is a desire to help people. Direct representation, family law and making a personal impact are at the center of her career goals after she graduates from Sturm College of Law on Saturday. “It’s the potential to make a big impact,” Dufford says. “Really tangible things that are going to help [people] right here and right now.” If a future lawyer wants to go into corporate law or the criminal justice system, there are well-trodden paths to reach those goals. But for the kind of law Dufford wants to practice public interest law the trails are murkier, especially if the legal practitioner has little interest in being a public defender. Throw in that Dufford is a first-generation law student, and it was particularly complicated. But with the Civil Litigation Clinic, a DU course where law students help low-income clients work through civil cases in housing, domestic violence, employment issues and many other areas of the law, Duffo
Equal Justice Works (EJW), the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, today recognized global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP for sponsoring more than 200 EJW fellows since 1999, when the firm began supporting EJW.