Cumberland Students Learn, Serve in Public Interest Program

A record 100 Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law students are volunteering part of their summer vacation to work at a public interest entity.

The students are serving judges, state and federal prosecutors, state and federal public defenders, environmental and public policy groups and volunteer lawyer programs at 59 sites throughout Alabama, seven other states and D.C. The fellowship program, a part of Cumberland’s Public Interest Project, provides a stipend of about $1,500 to each student. Stipends are awarded based on the educational benefit of the proposed work experience, the benefit to the community and the student’s expressed interest in pursuing public interest work. The fellowships are made possible through the generosity of Cumberland alumni, the Henry G. Sims and Henry Upson Sims Foundation, Beasley Allen law firm and Miles McGrane, J.D., ’75.