Department of Justice Summer Law Intern Program
The Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP) is the Department's competitive recruitment program for compensated summer internships. Selection for employment is based on many elements of a candidate's background including academic achievement, law review or moot court experience, legal aid and clinical experience, and summer or part-time legal employment. The Department also considers specialized academic studies (including undergraduate and post-graduate degrees), work experience, and extracurricular activities that directly relate to the work of the Department. Law students who have completed at least one full semester of legal study by the application deadline are eligible to apply. Most successful applicants intern the summer between their second and third year of law school; however, graduating law students who are entering a judicial clerkship or full-time graduate law program may intern following graduation subject to eligibility rules. Part-time law students are also eligible. Select the link above for details. The application deadline is September 8th, 2009. For more information, please reference the following link: http://www.usdoj.gov/oarm/arm/sp/sp. htm.
Milbank Diversity Scholars
Each year Milbank selects law students who will receive a salaried summer associate position and a $50,000 scholarship ($15,000 to be distributed during the students’ third year of law school, and payment of the additional $35,000 contingent upon receipt and acceptance of a Milbank permanent offer, to be paid upon the students’ joining the Firm). For more information and to apply visit: www.milbank.com/en/Diversity. Applications must be postmarked by September 15th.
King & Spalding Diversity Fellowship Program
The Fellowship is open to second year law students in good standing, whose presence will increase the ethnic and cultural diversity of the practice of law. Fellowship recipients will receive $10,000 and a summer associate position in the King & Spalding office of their choice (Atlanta, Charlotte, DC, Houston, New York, San Francisco or Silicon Valley) for Summer 2010. For more information and to apply visit: www.kslaw.com/diversity/diversity.pdf. Applications must be received by September 1, 2009.
Equal Justice Works Fellowships
The Equal Justice Works Fellowship Program creates partnerships among public interest lawyers, nonprofit organizations, law firm/corporate sponsors and other donors in order to afford under represented populations effective access to the justice system. The Equal Justice Works (formerly NAPIL) Fellowships Program was launched in 1992 to address the shortage of attorneys working on behalf of traditionally under-served populations and causes in the United States and its territories. Recognizing that many obstacles prevent committed attorneys from practicing public interest law, including the dearth of entry-level jobs and daunting educational debts, the program provides financial and technical support to lawyers working on innovative and effective legal projects. The two-year Fellowships offer salary and generous loan repayment assistance; a national training and leadership development program; and other forms of support during the term of the Fellowship. The 2010 fellowship application process is open from July 7 to September 17th. For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/programs/fellowships/general.
American Bar Association’s Division For Public Services Clerkship
The Division offers two Clerkship opportunities: The first is a ten-week Spring/Summer Clerkship, open by competition, and offering law students entering their second or third year at an ABA-accredited law school the opportunity to design and complete a legal research and writing project in substantive areas of Division concern. To qualify, you must have an interest in, and plan to write about, one of our areas of involvement: bioethics and the law; disability law; election law; environmental law; homelessness and poverty; immigration law; the Law Library of Congress and access to legal resources; national security law; substance abuse; or public interest in law school and as a career. Applicants are required to join the ABA Law Student Division at http://www.abanet.org/lsd/home.html. If of acceptable quality, the work product may be published by the Division. The second is a Fall/Winter Clerkship and typically involves conducting project research and writing; developing information for directories and other databases; coordinating survey development, distribution and results; or editing manuscripts for publication. Applicants may be undergraduate or law school students, depending on project need.
Please note: When applying for the Clerkship, please indicate which Clerkship you are applying for (i.e., Spring/Summer or Fall/Winter). Clerkships are unpaid. We encourage law students to incorporate the Clerkship into law student externship/internship program and/or to seek supportive law school funding where needed. The Deadline for the Fall/Winter Clerkship is September 1, 2009. The Deadline for the Spring/Summer Clerkship is December 1, 2009.