The Intellectual Property Division plays a vital role in protecting our international investment in intellectual property. We are very proud of our summer program. Our interns are working with us typically the summer prior to their final year in law school. Our interns are assigned both a supervisor and a mentor to help them on-board quickly and have an opportunity to see corporate life and quickly gain hands-on experience. Each intern is given a variety of assignments to allow them the opportunity to understand the scope of the work we do. The duties our interns complete during their summer include: patentability opinion, 2 responses, patent application draft, set of claims, and a final presentation at the end of the summer on a topic related to their work.

The Office of County Counsel is searching for Law Student Interns who have strong diplomacy and people skills. The successful intern will be working with Officers and County staff as part of the Code Enforcement team and will be assisting professional Attorneys with general litigation.

EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Preparing declarations and memoranda of points and authorities, compiling exhibits for inspection and seizure warrants for submission
- Preparing pleadings, including complaints, injunctions and summary judgement motions for injunctions and nuisance abatement cases

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.

NRDC is a leading nonprofit membership organization that has been marshaling science and the law to protect the environment and public health since 1970. Our more than 1.3 million members and activists reside in each of the United States and in the District of Columbia. NRDC employs over 350 scientists, lawyers, economists, media specialists, policy analysts, and administrators in its six offices, including a new office in China.

NRDC’s summer legal interns help write briefs, draft complaints, prepare legal analyses, obtain affidavits, investigate corporate and government malfeasance, participate in policy advocacy campaigns, and draft white papers and comments for submission to Congressional committees and administrative agencies.

The Sony Pictures Television, International Networks—Business Affairs law intern will work alongside the Executive Directors and Directors of the Business Affairs team to work with Sony’s international networks and complete many tasks related to the nature of Business Affairs. Duties will include, but not limited to, supporting attorneys with licensing agreements, as well as the possibility of analyzing, drafting and negotiating agreements under the supervision of an attorney. The intern will gain contract knowledge through inputting and updating Business Affairs documentation such as contracts, deal memos, and format agreements into our database. The intern will also be given the opportunity to interact with clients by communicating with Program Directors and Licensors around the world.

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.

Uline, a leading international distributor of packaging & industrial supplies, seeks Summer 2011 Legal Interns for their new Corporate Headquarters in Pleasant Prairie, WI.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES / REQUIREMENTS:
- Research & write legal memoranda on a broad range of legal issues
- Effectively & efficiently use Westlaw in conducting research on complex legal matters
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with quick response time

The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS), one of the nation’s leading refugee advocacy organizations, welcomes law student externs for the Fall 2010 semester.

Law student externs are involved in the full range of CGRS’s work, including research, analysis, and writing on key legal issues, appellate advocacy, international human rights projects, the preparation of expert witness affidavits, and national policy work.

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