Student Hotline

The Student Hotline offers first and second year law students a valuable clinical experience in public interest law. Each summer the project recruits and trains twenty law student volunteers to staff the Hotline in a limited practice area of divorce, landlord/tenant and consumer debt/collection. Law student volunteers also receive training in client interviewing and counseling techniques. All client-student consultations are performed under the direct supervision of CARPLS senior attorneys, who talk to each client, review their issues, and direct the information given out by the law students. Currently, the program includes law students from Loyola, Northwestern, John Marshall, Chicago-Kent and DePaul.

The ten-week Student Hotline project which, runs from the beginning of June to mid-August,  allows CARPLS to serve hundreds of additional clients’ over the summer months when calls to the Hotline are at their peak.  Students need only one year of law school completed, a passion for helping others, and a desire to get some real world legal experience, in order to participate. “The law students bring a wonderful energy to CARPLS.  Their enthusiasm for helping those less fortunate is contagious, and we are thrilled to work with the students ,” says Project Manager, Pat Wrona. If you would like to be part of the summer law student program, contact Pat at for more information.