WHO: Peter Neufeld Esq. will be presented with the "PILSO Lifetime Achievement Award". Mr. Neufeld is the co-founder, with his partner Barry Scheck, of the The Innocence Project, an independent non-profit legal clinic and resource center at Cardozo Law School. The project handles cases where post conviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence. As of March 1, 2004 the Project has assisted in 142 exonerations nation-wide. The work of the Innocence Project is broadly impacting our nation's criminal justice system: reducing the credibility of eyewitness identification and confessions, causing greater scrutiny of scientific evidence, and causing more people to doubt the morality of the death penalty.

WHEN: March 18, 2004 

WHAT: The Pace Law School Public Interest Law Scholarship Organization (PILSO) established in winter 1990, provides grants on a competitive basis to students pursuing public interest law summer internships and careers. Funding for the grants comes from various on-campus events, faculty, and students. In its first six years, PILSO has given over $58,000 in grants to Pace law students and has thus provided over 8,000 hours of volunteer legal services to public interest law organizations.

WHERE: Pace Law School, Preston Hall, Tudor Room, 78 North Broadway, White Plains, New York.

Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is a New York Law School with a suburban campus in White Plains, N.Y., 20 miles north of New York City. Part of Pace University, the school offers the J.D. program for full-time and part-time day and evening students. Its postgraduate program includes the LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees in Environmental Law and an LL.M. in Comparative Legal Studies. Pace has one of the nation's top-rated Environmental Law programs and its Clinical Education program also is nationally ranked, offering clinics in domestic violence prosecution, environmental law, securities arbitration, criminal justice and disability rights. www.law.pace.edu 

Pace is a comprehensive, independent university with campuses in New York City, Pleasantville and White Plains, NY and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, NY. More than 14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing and Pace Law School. www.pace.edu