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About the Role
The ACLU seeks a full-time Summer Legal Intern to support the ACLU’s work across at the Supreme Court. The intern will gain exposure to advocacy strategy development and coalition management efforts for cases pending before or possibly headed toward the U.S. Supreme Court.
Responsibilities
- Conduct legal research and analysis to support new and active litigation projects
- Aid in drafting of legal memoranda, motions, and briefs
- Provide support and assistance to ACLU affiliates and cooperating attorneys
- Legal research, argument development, brief drafting, and assistance with long-term planning and strategy projects
Requirements
- Currently matriculated legal students based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship
- Completion of 1L year of law school prior to the commencement of the internship; preference for candidates who will have already completed their 2L year
- Excellent research skills, including conducting internet and legal database research
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and writing
- Attention to detail, excellent organization and time-management skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- The initiative to see projects through to completion
- Demonstrated commitment to public interest law, civil liberties, and racial justice
- Demonstrated ability to conduct complex legal analysis
- Kindness, generosity, and humility
Skills
- Research
- Communication (verbal and writing)
- Organization
- Time-management
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Legal analysis
- Drafting briefs before the United States Supreme Court
- Section 1983 litigation
- Immigration law
- LGBTQ rights
- Free speech
- Administrative law
- National security law
- Structural constitutional law
Location
- San Francisco, CA
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 1L law student
- 2L law student
Education Level
- Law student
Salary/Compensations
- $24/hour
About the Company
- For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
- The ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
- Accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all.
- We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability.
- We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible.
- We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally.
Equal Opportunity
- We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.