The Seventeenth Annual Howard B. Eisenberg Do-Gooders’ (PILS) Auction will be held on Friday, February 12, from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the Italian Conference Center at 631 East Chicago Street in Milwaukee.
The event, which is named after the late Dean Howard Eisenberg, raises funds for the Public Interest Law Society’s Summer Fellowship Program.
The silent auction begins at 5:30 p.m. Complimentary beer, wine, and soda will be served from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The live auction, MC’d by the very entertaining Professor Ed Fallone, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Appetizers and a light dinner will be served.
Tickets are $40 per person. Student tickets are $25 if purchased by February 9. Tickets may be purchased online or by check at www.law.marquette.edu, or may be purchased at the door. Tickets may also be purchased in the student lounge at the Law School. Special Fellowship and Do-Gooder tables are available.
This year’s auction features terrific live and silent auction items.
The auction features items at all price levels. Here is a sample:
1. Romantic Pfister bed and breakfast package with flowers from Belle Fiori
2. Tripoli golf outing & lunch with attorney Tom and Mary Domer – it’s tee time!
3. Sailing on Lake Michigan in a thirty-foot sailboat
4. A week in Door County
5. Stay at the Washington Street Inn Bed & Breakfast near Grand Haven, Michigan
6. 5 days and 4 nights at a condo in Big Sky, Montana
7. The Suite Life — view a Milwaukee Bucks game from Marquette’s suite at the Bradley Center!
Thanks to the success of the 2009 PILS Auction, our 2009 PILS Fellowship Winners provided much-needed service to a diverse group of organizations:
- Colin Casper, Cook County State’s Attorney Office
- Kyla Davidoff, Dane County Corporation Counsel
- Daniel Friedman, Legal Services of Northern California
- Jennifer Grieve, Wisconsin Department of Revenue
- Scott Luzi, Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee
- Geoff Misfeldt, Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Trial Office
- Elizabeth Murrar, Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services
- Matt Plummer, Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee
- Ben Reyes, Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services, Inc.
- Vintee Sawhney, American Civil Liberties Union – Wisconsin Foundation
- Alap Suresh, Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- Michelle Velasquez, Universidad de Alberto Hurtado, Center for Ethics in Santiago, Chile
- Zachary Willenbrink, American Civil Liberties Union – Wisconsin Foundation
- Danica Zawieja, UN-International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Office of the Prosecutor
