Caitlyn Smith spent nine months at two back-to-back internships at the Volunteer Lawyers Project in downtown Portland, where an attorney and two paralegals offer legal help to people who can't afford a lawyer. A senior English major from Etna, Maine, she plans to attend law school after graduation.Client intakes over the phone to see what we could do for them and to see if they fit within the income guidelines. If we weren’t able to help, we’d connect them with the Family Law Hotline. I also did a courthouse assistance project in Lewiston. Attorneys would come to the courthouse and give free consultations to help with legal paperwork. Sometimes I would sit in on those sessions, or attend domestic violence court and mediation sessions. I would shadow the attorney and sit in on status conferences with a judge. I also went to motions day with the head attorney.