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For the March 17-19, 2022 Conference
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Friday, March 19 • 10:00am - 11:00am
Client Centered Internships: Creating and Running a Successful Internship Program

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Internships are a critical tool for recruiting, training, and empowering the next generation of public defense professionals.  A successful internship program will benefit your clients, your office staff, and your interns alike...but it requires some work to pull off!  Join Georgia Sims, Assistant Deputy Public Defender for the Nashville Defenders, as she shares how Nashville developed a successful internship program that employs undergraduates, social work and other non-law graduate students, and law students.  She'll also provide practical advice and pointers for hosting and supervising student interns in the real (or virtual) world.
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Georgia Sims

Assistant Deputy Public Defender, Nashville Defenders
Georgia Sims is a Nashville native. She received her undergraduate degree from Transylvania University, where she played volleyball. She attended Vanderbilt University Law School and served as executive director of the Vanderbilt Legal Aid Society and as an editor for the Vanderbilt... Read More →

Friday March 19, 2021 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Room 5
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