At Cal State Fullerton, a student-run agency trades pro-bono PR for something a classroom cannot supply: a client with an actual problem. The lessons include a barbershop move, a clothing drive and one missing screenshot.
At UC Berkeley, Innovative Design pairs campus creative work with a place to learn. Its most useful lesson may be how to make room for people who are still figuring out what they can do.
The Los Angeles law firm puts experienced lawyers close to consequential problems. Its record shows both the appeal of that approach and the expense of getting a major case across the finish line.
America’s largest voluntary legal network does more than convene lawyers. It trains them, connects them, helps set their ethical baseline and quietly builds parts of the justice system’s operating manual.