As the Chief Justice’s North Carolina Commission on Professionalism and the wider North Carolina legal community work to address the shortage of attorneys practicing in many rural areas across the state, NC IOLTA has reestablished the Public Interest Internship Program, which funds summer internships for North Carolina law students.
Following their summer work, 2024 interns including Sully Bangura, a second-year law student at North Carolina Central University, gathered in Raleigh to reflect on their experiences. Below, Bangura discusses why he has chosen to become an attorney and what he learned working alongside practitioners in Catawba County.
Bangura is also participating in the program this summer, interning for the Honorable Anita Earls, associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Read more about the 2024 program in our annual report story, “The Most Rewarding Thing I’ve Ever Done”: Interning in a Legal Desert.
