The DePaul law community shows continued support for the Vincentian values of service, community and social justice by offering financial reprieve to select law alumni who have dedicated their careers to public service.
Through the Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), graduates working in public interest law are eligible for forgivable loans to help ease the burden of law school debt. Currently, alumni may receive up to five LRAP awards. Recipients forego potentially hefty paychecks to instead serve the greater good, providing equal access to the law for the disadvantaged by investing their energy into public interest legal work.
“Public interest attorneys are the ones who make sure that justice isn’t just for the wealthy, that it is a right in our country, and that the system is accessible to everyone,” says Shaye Loughlin (’06), associate director of the Center for Public Interest Law (CPIL), which administers LRAP. “It’s a core value of our society and our world.”
Bishop Jerome Edward Listecki (JD ’76), recently was named the 11th Archbishop of Milwaukee, according to the Catholic News Agency (CNA). Listecki, a long-time DePaul supporter, was previously bishop of the diocese of La Crosse, Wis. He will be installed in his new position in January.
“I am humbled by my selection as Archbishop of Milwaukee,” Listecki says in a statement released Nov. 14. “I will do my best to fulfill the confidence His Holiness Benedict XVI has placed in me.”
For Mary A. Dempsey, chair of the DePaul University board of trustees, and her husband Philip H. Corboy, making a generous donation to DePaul's College of Law is a logical extension of careers spent in law and public service.
Dempsey
and Corboy have made the largest single gift to the law school in its
nearly 100-year history, establishing the Mary Dempsey and Philip
Corboy Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to law
students in good standing based on financial need. “The College of Law
gave me the tools I needed to advance in my career, and to make a
difference not just in my life, but in the lives of others,” says
Dempsey, who graduated in 1982.
Dempsey
was working as a legal assistant for Chicago law firm Kirkland &
Ellis when she was persuaded by one of the partners to apply to law
school. She was accepted by several schools, but enrolled as a
full-time student at DePaul while continuing to work before, between
and after classes. “Both DePaul and Kirkland & Ellis gave me a
certain flexibility to deal with that hectic schedule,” she remembers.
“If I hadn’t learned it by then, it was a real lesson that all of us
have to rely on the help of others to succeed.”
