Legal
Internship

The Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center offers summer internships to exceptional law students who possess strong academic backgrounds, excellent research and writing skills, and a commitment to public interest law. Proficiency in Spanish is also desired. The Immigrant Justice Project represents farmworkers and other low-income immigrants in high-impact employment and civil rights cases throughout nine states in the South. Focus areas include federal class and collective action litigation under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Agricultural Worker Protection Act and federal civil rights litigation addressing law enforcement abuse of immigrants. For more information, visit our website.

Summer interns assist the Center's attorneys and paralegals with significant legal research and writing, field investigations, discovery, trial preparation, and some outreach to clients. Outreach to clients may involve substantial travel.

Interns receive $700.00 per week. Start dates are somewhat flexible, but interns are expected to begin sometime in early June 2010. A minimum commitment of nine weeks is required.

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume, transcript, a writing sample (no longer than 15 pages), and the names and phone numbers of two references by October 31, 2009, to: arlene.lamorena@splcenter.org. The Center expects to select interns by mid-November 2009.

Due to the high volume of applications received, we are unable to respond to inquiries by telephone.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from minorities, women and people with disabilities.