The Atlanta Lawyer August/September 2019 | Page 18
A Successful S.L.I.P.
The Atlanta Bar Association Conducts Its Summer Law Internship Program For High School
Students For A 27 TH Straight Summer
NEKIA HACKWORTH JONES
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
SLIP Co-Chair
[email protected]
T
he
2019
Atlanta Bar
Association
Summer Law
Internship
Program (SLIP) for High School Students had
18
August/September 2019
a terrific Summer, with a record 54 interns
from over 38 schools across seven Atlanta area
counties! At the conclusion of this summer’s
program, a first-time intern wrote a thank
you note in which she stated, “The Internship
Program’s force of beautiful cycles and
professionalism has created a grit and stamina
in me that previously didn’t exist.” (We will
have a hard time adding anything to
that sentiment but please bear with us).
This year marks the twenty-seventh straight
S. WADE MALONE
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
SLIP Co-Chair
[email protected]
summer of the Summer Law Internship
Program. We were honored to co-chair
SLIP with Natasha Perdew Silas (Federal
Defenders Program) and Darrius M. Wood
(Equal Justice Works). Darrius was a first-
time Co-Chair and participated in SLIP
in 2006 and 2007. Sarah Arnold (Nelson
Mullins Riley & Scarborough) continued
her outstanding service as the Internship
Program Director making sure every detail,
big and small (and with 54 interns there were a
million of them) was handled with perfection.