Newsweek and Equal Justice Works have have published the second edition of The E-Guide to Public Service at America’s Law Schools. It is a wonderful online resource which provides a broad range of free information about public interest programs and curricula at law schools. From the press release:

The E-Guide is a free interactive online resource of public service opportunities, curricula and financial programs at more than 150 law schools in the United States.

The result of a unique collaboration between Equal Justice Works and participating schools, The E-Guide fills a void in existing commercial law school rankings. It compiles extensive data on the availability of clinical and externship programs, financial aid and loan repayment assistance programs, the number of staff members dedicated to public service programs, and other criteria essential to students who plan to pursue public service careers or who want to gain lawyering skills before they graduate. The resource allows users to look at individual school profiles or compare schools based on the criteria most relevant to them. …

The First Edition of the E-Guide was launched in August 2006 … The second edition features a 30% jump in the number of participating schools—from 116 in 2006 to more than 150 in 2007—and many enhancements, including:

• Multi-media content: Commemorating the second anniversary of the Katrina disaster and the response of public interest lawyers, educators and law students to the crisis in the Gulf Coast, the new site offers video clips of Equal Justice Works Lawyers and, on Aug. 29, a live talk with Professor Bill Quigley, director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans.
• Intelligent search results: The E-Guide helps make users more sophisticated consumers of law school information. Rather than rankings, The E-Guide invites users to create their own set of criteria. Responses to user queries are provided with helpful context. For example, a user interested in loan repayment programs might also want to know overall tuition costs and average student debt.
• Complete school profiles: The 2007 site allows users to view or print comprehensive profiles of participating schools that include clinical programs, courses devoted to public service, scholarships, loan repayment assistance programs and employment statistics.