3/15/06-Boston College Law School’s 18th Annual Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) Auction will be held on Thursday, March 30th, 2006 in the Stuart House snack bar. This year’s auction includes such unique items as Red Sox tickets in the new Home Plate Club, hotel stays and meals at hotels in Boston and Cape Cod, "pool" parties at downtown bars like Jillian's and Felt, beer and wine tastings at local pubs and vineyards, “Dean-for-a-Day, ” an auction tradition donated by Dean Garvey, restaurant gift certificates, spa delights, theater and ball tickets, and gift baskets of all shapes and sizes.

The auction's proceeds go to help fund PILF's summer stipends. This is PILF's major fundraiser for the program.

Auctioneers include Professor Bob Bloom, Dean Norah Wylie, Mike Cassidy, Kent Greenfield , Ray Madoff, and Joan Shear. Doors open at 3:00 p.m. this year. The silent auction begins at 3:00 pm and runs to 5:30 pm. The Live Auction begins at 3:30 p.m. There will also be a raffle. Refreshments are available throughout the auction.

Additionally, PILF will be holding an online auction. The online auction will open Wednesday, March 22. The auction will be located at http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/pilf/pilfpages/auction.html

There will also be a BC Law alumni auction event to be held in downtown Boston, time and place TBA.

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.