All students enrolled at the Moritz College of Law who have completed at least their first semester of law school are eligible.

Students must identify an eligible sponsor either within or outside the college. The Director of Public Service and Public Interest must approve sponsors outside the college. Please note that LLM students on F-1 visas may only volunteer within Moritz College of Law or The Ohio State University in general, per visa regulation. LLM students who are permanent residents or US citizens may volunteer at organizations on or off campus. See Assistant Dean of Global Perspectives, Ukeme Awakessien Jeter for specifics of the LLM process.

Activities within the Moritz College of Law which are not paid and for which students do not receive externship or clinic credit, including but not limited to:

• Volunteering for the Income Tax Assistance Program;
• Participating in the Board Fellows Program (only hours spent working on a legal project with an attorney may count);
• Serving in an Executive Board role for the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF), for which students will earn a maximum of 50 hours;
• Participating in the Student Pro Bono Research Group (if active);
• Participating in mediation for the Truancy Mediation Project (even if the student is also receiving a Certificate in Dispute Resolution. This does NOT include hours completed for the mediation clinic course); 
• Participating in Dispute Resolution and Youth Group (if active) (only hours spent volunteering and teaching in schools may count.)

Activities from outside the Moritz College of Law which are not paid** and for which students do not receive externship or clinic credit, including but not limited to:

• Volunteering legal or mediation work for a legal services provider which is a non-profit organization or other 501(c)(3) organization;
• Volunteering for a judge, prosecutor, public defender, or other government agency;
• Hours completed beyond the curricular requirements at qualifying organizations for externships and some Washington, D.C. Summer Program placements may also qualify. Any hours completed beyond those required for these programs would count if they meet all other requirements.

**Students who receive a PILF Summer Fellowship, Moritz Public Interest Summer Fellowship, or other outside funding not provided by the organization for their volunteer hours, may be able to count some of those hours towards this program.
**The organization may reimburse the student’s out-of-pocket expenses for qualifying pro bono hours.

For all qualifying activities outside the Moritz College of Law, the duties of the student must be directly and significantly related to legal research and drafting, and/or stages of legislation, regulation, litigation or alternative dispute resolution.