WRI is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people’s lives. Today’s environmental challenges are complex and global in nature. They call for visionary and ambitious action grounded in sound science and objective analysis–the kind of action that has distinguished WRI for over 25 years.

This legal intern will provide legal research and support for the U.S. Climate Objective. The U.S. Climate Objective works to provide timely, accurate and non-partisan research information to policy-makers at both the state and federal level. This past July we released a report that quantified opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions using existing federal authorities. The successful candidate will help us build on that work by examining remaining legal questions regarding the application of those authorities (such as the Clean Air Act). This is a paid position. We are considering applicants for both full- and part-time work.

Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the earth’s natural resources and defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. Originally founded as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in 1971, Earthjustice has been involved in many of the nation’s most important environmental battles and has established valuable precedents in cases involving air and water quality, endangered species, forestry, public lands, and international environmental law.

Summer law clerks will participate in a wide range of tasks that will include significant legal research and factual research and is also likely to include preparing briefs and motions; meeting with clients and experts; conducting case investigation, record review, or discovery; performing administrative advocacy; and/or screening potential new cases or developing new legal claims or theories.

Consumers for a Responsive Legal System (“Responsive Law”) is seeking law interns for pay or for credit for the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters.

Responsive Law is a national nonprofit advocacy organization that works to improve accessibility, accountability and affordability in the civil justice system. We advocate for more competition in the provision of legal services, better self-help options for the legal system’s customers, and improved legal literacy for those customers.

Comcast Corporation’s Washington, DC office is looking for a part-time law student intern to support the Public Policy group in Fall 2010. The position involves research and writing on public policy issues including cable, Internet, voice, wireless, and content. The intern can expect to prepare briefing memos, talking points, comment summaries, and other written material, and may have opportunities to attend conferences, hearings and events outside of the office.

The CIA Office of General Counsel has a Summer Legal Clerkship Program that allows a small number of exceptionally qualified law students to obtain broad exposure to the practice of intelligence law. Although the Office makes no commitment with respect to future employment beyond an individual’s summer clerkship, each participant may be evaluated for future employment at the conclusion of the program. Whether continued employment will be offered is entirely discretionary, and will be based upon the individual’s entire resume package, performance as a summer law clerk, the availability of entry-level attorney positions and overall budgetary constraints.

International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) builds and supports the capacity of women, human rights, labor, and legal organizations to develop and promote innovative legal strategies to hold multinational corporations accountable for labor, human rights, and environmental violations. IRAdvocates does so by supporting direct legal advocacy both in the U.S. and abroad, and by working with local partner organizations to develop and undertake precedent-setting legal actions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. IRAdvocates believes that only when multinational corporate actors are subject to meaningful and enforceable legal mechanisms both in the country where the violation occurs and abroad can individual human rights be fully realized.

Position Responsibilities:
- Research legal issues particular to multinational corporate accountability litigation, including specifically the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), the Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA), and state law claims.
- Draft legal memoranda concerning relevant issues in pending cases.
- Conduct factual research to assist in filing complaints against multinational corporations and further case development.
- Assist in preparations for conducting and defending depositions.

CARECEN’s immigration legal services program provides low-income Latino immigrants in the Washington metropolitan area with low or no cost, quality legal assistance in a variety of immigration matters, including asylum, U-visas, NACARA, citizenship, permanent residence, family petitions, temporary protected status, and renewal of work authorization documents. Additionally, CARECEN provides general immigration consultations four times a week.

Interns with CARECEN’s legal service program will assist with client intakes, help prepare a variety of immigration applications, write up small briefs or memorandum in support of applications, as well as provide any necessary follow-up once the application has been filled. Interns will also assist in organizing and hosting community forums and workshops to educate the community about their legal rights. Interns carry their own caseload and will work under the supervision of CARECEN’s Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellows or CARECEN’s staff attorney.

The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) is the federal courts’ agency for continuing education and research. Congress established the Center in 1967 as a separate organization within the federal judicial system at the request of the Judicial Conference of the United States. A nine-member board, chaired by the Chief Justice of the United States, determines its basic policies. The FJC develops educational resources for federal judges, provides training for court staff, and conducts empirical research in the field of judicial administration.

The Center’s International Judicial Relations Office (IJR) coordinates informational briefngs for visiting foreign delegations and provides materials about the U.S. judicial system and the work of the FJC. At the invitation of foreign judiciaries or development organizations, the IJR develops seminars on such topics as judicial branch education, court administration, case management, alternative dispute resolution, and judicial ethics.

IJR seeks an intern, current law student preferred, to work 10-15 hours per week at the FJC to provide support for the IJR Director and staff. The intern will be responsible for providing administrative, logistics, and research support to IJR and to the Director of International Judicial Relations. Tasks and responsibilities will vary depending upon IJR’s workload, activities and events.

USCRI’s National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children (NCRIC) was launched in March 2005 in order to recruit and train volunteer attorneys and match them with unaccompanied immigrant children who have been released from federal custody all over the US. The Center’s interns and volunteers play a pivotal role in every facet of the Center’s day-to-day activities. There are four positions available for this internship.

Responsibilities:
• Conduct telephonic intake interviews with children in their native tongue
• Orient children and their sponsors to the immigration court process
• Update the Center’s website by posting research
• Perform web-based research on country conditions
• Research important legal decisions related to immigrant children

The Sikh Coalition is a community based organization that defends civil rights and civil liberties in the United States. The organization owes its existence in large part to the effort to combat uninformed discrimination against Sikh-Americans after September 11, 2001.

The Coalition seeks an undergraduate or graduate school level summer intern to work directly with the Sikh Coalition’s Director of Law and Policy to coordinate the Sikh Coalition’s cross-programmatic social justice campaigns. An ideal candidate will have an interest and/or experience utilizing different methodologies — Legal, Advocacy, Organizing, Education – to produce social justice. Candidates should either be pursuing a law degree or pursing an education touching upon human or civil rights work.