Fund Formation Attorney
Allocate
Legal Intern, Reproductive Freedom Project
ACLU
internship
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $24 per hour
Job Level
Entry Level
About the role
- Conducting legal research and analysis
- Aiding in drafting memoranda, motions, declarations, and legal pleadings
- Providing general assistance on active litigation, including cite-checking
- Supporting development of new litigation projects
- Additional responsibilities could include working on fact development, conducting background research, or tracking and analyzing bills.
Requirements
- The internship is open to law students who will have completed at least one year of law school before the internship commences.
- Excellent legal research and writing skills and the ability to conduct complex legal analysis.
- Strong oral communications skills and the ability to explain complicated legal issues.
- The ability to balance multiple assignments, to communicate with colleagues, and to accept and incorporate feedback.
- A collaborative attitude – be a team player.
- Demonstrated commitment to public interest law, civil rights and liberties, and social justice; a demonstrated commitment to reproductive health rights and justice is a plus, but is not required.
Benefits
- A stipend is available for those students who are lawfully authorized to work.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
legal researchlegal analysisdrafting memorandadrafting motionsdrafting declarationsdrafting legal pleadingscite-checkingfact developmentbackground researchbill tracking
Soft skills
legal writingoral communicationcomplex issue explanationmultitaskingcollaborationteam playerfeedback incorporationcommitment to public interest lawcommitment to civil rightscommitment to social justice