Description:

Purpose:
PPFA conducts impact litigation in courts across the country and has been lead or co-counsel in nearly every reproductive rights case to have reached the Supreme Court over the past thirty years. PPFA also provides strategic legal advice on legislation in Congress and state legislatures and on regulatory issues at the national, state, and local levels.

Delivery:
Our litigation docket includes challenges, primarily in state court, to laws and policies that restrict Planned Parenthood patients' access to abortion, contraception, and other comprehensive reproductive health services. The cases we bring are designed to protect patients' constitutional and statutory rights and expand their access to reproductive health services, and to protect providers of those services from discrimination.

Engagement:
Externs work closely with PPFA attorneys on a wide variety of litigation- and policy-related responsibilities, including legal research and analysis; drafting memoranda, pleadings, affidavits, briefs, talking points, and informational backgrounders; factual development for ongoing or developing litigation; and communicating with clients.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):
Excellent research and writing skills, enthusiasm for working with both litigation- and policy-focused attorneys, a demonstrated commitment to social justice, and a strong interest in reproductive rights and justice, health law, racial and economic justice, and/or public interest law more generally.