3/27/03-Boston College Law School’s 15th Annual PILF Auction will be held on Thursday, April 3rd, 2003. This year’s auction, sponsored by the school’s Public Interest Law Foundation, includes such unique items as "tea in the library’s Rare Book Room," a football signed by Doug Flutie, one week of valet parking by BC Law faculty and staff, and vacation packages in Lake Tahoe, South Beach, Maine and New Hampshire.

View the PILF Auction program at http://www2.bc.edu/~newhalsa

"The Annual PILF auction has become one of the year’s most anticipated events," said BC Law Professor Mary Bilder, who will once again serve as a faculty auctioneer at the event. "PILF goes to the heart of what Boston College Law School is all about--a true sense of community, and a commitment to funding public service law careers, while having fun in the process."

The auction's proceeds go to PILF's summer stipends and other PILF programs, such as the immigration law trips to Miami and Los Angeles. The target of this year’s auction will be to raise $25,000 for summer stipends. This is PILF's major fundraiser for the program.

Other auctioneers in addition to Professor Bilder include Professor Ray Madoff, Professor Mike Cassidy, Professor Judy McMorrow, Professor Robert Bloom, Librarian Joan Shear, and PILF President Jachyn Davis.

Doors open at 2:30 p.m. this year. The Silent Auction and Blind Auctions are open for bids from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. The Live Auction begins at 3:30 p.m. Beer and food is available throughout the auction.

This year’s other donated items up for auction include roundtrip Airfare for two, Bruce Springsteen, Red Sox, Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and Boston Symphony Orchestra tickets, Dean-for-a-day, Tea in the Rare Book Room, Baked goods, goodie baskets, gift certificates, and spa items, and much more.

The Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) is a student organization dedicated to providing public interest law opportunities to students at Boston College Law School. These opportunities including funding student projects that work to help the needy, sponsoring speakers' series throughout the year, and providing students with summer stipends so that they can afford to work at legal services centers and public interest law jobs after their first and second law school years. In addition, PILF works with faculty and administration to encourage the addition of public interest law classes at Boston College Law School, provide loan forgiveness funds to graduating law students who are committed to practicing public interest law, and ensure that the law school continues its commitment to public interest law.

PILF's greatest strength, however, is its many different student projects that look to give law students practical legal experience, while helping the poor and disadvantaged. These projects include the Miami/El Paso Immigration Asylum Projects, the Domestic Violence Outreach Project (DVOP), and the Children's Rights Project, BC Law Against the Death Penalty, the Criminal Law Group, the Civil Rights Group, PILF Work Weekends and the Community Economic Development Group- as well as projects like the Animal Rights Group and the Indian Law Group.