PUBLIC COUNSEL NOW ACCEPTING SUMMER 2015 CLERKSHIP APPLICATIONS
For law students who want to spend their summer practicing law in one of the country’s most prestigious public interest law settings – this opportunity is for you!
Public Counsel has nine exciting law projects and several subprojects that accept summer interns. Projects include a sophisticated appellate law practice, a comprehensive children’s rights program that handles school condition and discipline matters, special education cases, and adoptions, a community development team that supports affordable housing development and assists non-profit and small businesses with a variety of transactional needs, an immigrants’ rights group that does compelling asylum work on behalf of victims of torture and political persecution, a homelessness prevention unit that defends unlawful detainer complaints, advocates for welfare benefits, and eliminates outstanding tickets and warrants for persons at-risk of homelessness, and complex consumer fraud and impact litigation that addresses the injuries of individuals as well as systemic reform. Click here to learn more about each of the practice areas.
Public Counsel’s 2015 summer internship program will run for ten weeks, commencing on May 26, 2015, and ending on July 31, 2015. Both 1L’s and 2L’s are eligible for these internships. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Applications from 2L’s are currently being received and considered. Applications from 1L’s will not be accepted until December 1, 2014. If you are a 1L, please wait until December 1 to transmit your application.
For complete information on the summer program, including how to apply for a clerkship, interested students should visit Public Counsel’s 2015 Summer Clerkship Application page.