Every Saturday during our PreProBono Fellowship Program, we invite a Guest Speaker – a young lawyer or law student – to tell stories about law school and legal work with a public interest focus. The goal is to champion public interest law. Because it’s awesome.
7Sagers, PreProBonors, and Pre-Law students everywhere, meet Francesca Butnick!
Francesca earned her B.A. from Columbia University in 2007 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2010.
At Harvard, Francesca worked at the United States Attorneys’ Office on cases ranging from counter-terrorism to drug trafficking. Cool stuff, right? In her 3L year, she got to see the defense side of the law while doing her clinical with Harvard’s Criminal Justice Institute where she successfully helped her indigent client negotiate for rehabilitative treatment instead of a jail sentence. Her stories of working with federal prosecutors balanced against those of working as a public defender allowed our Fellows to see the moral crossroads in criminal law. We’re very grateful to have her as as a Guest Speaker. Thank you Francesca! We love you.
If you’re interested in being inspirational, be a PreProBono Guest Speaker! Contact us!
Photo credit: Vincent de Vera
About J.Y. Ping
J.Y. has been teaching the LSAT since 2006 and has taught thousands of students. He is the founder of 7Sage and PreProBono, two organizations dedicated to making legal education more accessible. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 where he studied Economics, Political Science, and Philosophy and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
J.Y. highly encourages all LSAT students to review their logic games using 7Sage's Fool Proof Method and to sign up for 7Sage's free trial LSAT course.
