{"id":7597,"date":"2016-01-12T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2016-01-12T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:10:26","slug":"u-s-department-of-justice-volunteer-legal-internship-program-in-dc-summer-2016-deadline-january-30-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=7597","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of Justice Volunteer Legal Internship Program in DC, Summer 2016 &#8211; Deadline &#8211; January 30, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Job Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will be assigned to one of OIL\u2019s litigation teams, where they will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Draft appellate briefs for asylum and cancel-lation of removal cases, and write dispositive motions<\/li>\n<li>Write case summaries for weekly litigation reports, conduct legal research, and prepare memoranda<\/li>\n<li>Attend \u201cFirst Cuts\u201d meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Program Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student must be at least a rising 2L by the start date of the internship\/externship<\/li>\n<li>A minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00.<\/li>\n<li>United States Citizen and submit a suitability background investigation<\/li>\n<li>Commit to a minimum of 20 hours per week for 12 continuous weeks<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate interest in immigration or ap-pellate law<\/li>\n<li>Show strong research and writing skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Apply:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Send your application materials in a single PDF document in the following order: cover letter, resume, unofficial transcript, and 5-10 page writing sample <a title=\"link\" href=\"mailto:Terri.Leon-Benner@usdoj.gov\" target=\"_blank\">via email<\/a>. Application not submitted according to instructions will not be considered. OIL-appellate hires interns and externs throughout the year.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer Deadlines: Summer 2016:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11\/13\/2015 \u2014 Application Submissions Begins<\/p>\n<p>01\/30\/2016 \u2014 Application Deadline<\/p>\n<p>02\/15\/2016 \u2014 Final Decision Notification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job Description: Students will be assigned to one of OIL\u2019s litigation teams, where they will: Draft appellate briefs for asylum and cancel-lation of removal cases, and write dispositive motions Write case summaries for weekly litigation reports, conduct legal research, and prepare memoranda Attend \u201cFirst Cuts\u201d meetings. Program Requirements: Student must be at least a rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,24,17,8,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1l-information","category-2l-information","category-3l-information","category-general-announcements","category-government-opportunities","category-summer-opportunities","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}