About the role

  • Legal Intern position at LatinoJustice PRLDEF focusing on civil rights litigation and advocacy. Engaging in research, community engagement, and coalition building in New York.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct fact investigations and legal research
  • Draft sections of legal briefs, memos of law, pleadings, and other litigation documents
  • Participate in client & witness interviews and trial preparation
  • Accompany staff lawyers to court proceedings and legislative hearings
  • Join every stage of planning, developing, and prosecuting our impact cases

Requirements

  • Energetic, motivated law students with a record of commitment to social justice work.
  • Excellent legal, written, research, and communications skills.
  • Coursework on Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Employment, Immigration, and/or Voting Rights.
  • Involvement in legal analytical and research skills workshops.
  • Ability to conduct complex legal analysis and fact-finding.
  • Bilingual Spanish/English is a plus but not required.

Benefits

  • We are happy to help students obtain academic course credit through school clinical externship programs and/or satisfy pro bono volunteer requirements at school or for bar admission.

Job title

Legal Internship

Job type

Experience level

Entry level

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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