Legal Intern Placement Program

In 1995, the Foundation created its signature Legal Internship Placement Program (L.I.P.P) to assist in fostering and sustaining a viable presence of women in the legal profession throughout the Greater Washington D.C. area. The L.I.P.P. program is designed to sponsor summer internships for minority law students with financial need and offer law students the opportunity to gain invaluable legal experience that they would otherwise be unable to obtain. L.I.P.P. award recipients are awarded a stipend that is distributed during the summer of the internship program, at the start and finish of the internship.

Nikolas Ferreyra is a rising second year law student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.  He is a native Washingtonian and earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Miami in International and Latin American Studies. 

Ferreyra’s legal interests include administrative law, international law, immigration law and labor law.  At Case Western, he is involved in several student organizations, including the ACLU chapter, the Student Bar Association, and the International Law Society. 

This summer, he is interning in Washington, D.C. with the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings, where he is excited to strengthen his legal research, writing, and advocacy skills while gaining meaningful exposure to the judiciary.