The Fall 2024-2025 BLAST Application will be live on the first day of school!
Berkeley Law Alternative Service Trips (BLAST) is one way students at Berkeley Law can engage in pro bono legal services. BLAST allows students to take a short, but deep dive serving clients over school breaks outside of the Bay Area. Students work alongside established grassroots legal services agencies, gaining insight into the ways these organizations adapt their work to the unique challenges and needs of their respective communities. BLAST is a service-learning experience that helps equip students with the tools to understand the complex needs of communities similar to and different from their own, helping foster an active generation of thoughtful community lawyers. In years past, BLAST has traveled to Alaska, Atlanta, Kentucky, the Central Valley of California, Mississippi, and the U.S./Mexico border. BLAST, like SLPS, is student-initiated and operates in conjunction with the Berkeley Law Pro Bono Program.
The 2024-2025 BLAST Application will be live at the commencement of the Fall semester. Applications are due September 11th, 2024 before midnight.
Students may access all substantive questions from the 2023-2024 BLAST application here. Fall 2024-2025 BLAST questions will be available soon.
Students can begin working on this application as soon as it is live. It is recommended, however, that students attend the Pro Bono Information Session and the Pro Bono Fair before submitting their application.
Please complete only ONE application.
You can contact BLAST’s student leadership at blast@law.berkeley.edu. For general questions about the Pro Bono Program at Berkeley Law, please contact us at probono@law.berkeley.edu.