Closing Date: 22nd April, 2024
Description:
Job Description:A Government Entity's Sacramento Field Office is seeking law students with a strong interest in gaining practical experience in environmental law and litigation. Law clerks conduct legal research on a variety of substantive and procedural environmental issues. Our attorneys make every effort to provide interns with challenging work in as many areas of our practice as possible. Interns typically research and draft legal memoranda and briefs, prepare written discovery, present oral reports on research assignments, and attend planning sessions with client agency counsel and technical experts. Interns may also attend or assist with witness interviews, depositions, settlements conferences, and court hearings.
The Sacramento office will consider both in person and remote internship arrangements, so please indicate a preference in your cover letter.
Qualifications:
Student applicants must (1) hold full or dual United States citizenship (note: applicants must identify their citizenship in their cover letter); (2) have resided within the United States for three of the past five years, unless military/diplomatic service was involved; (3) be enrolled in, and in good standing at their law school; and (4) commit to work full-time in the summer over a period of 10 weeks, or a minimum of 16 hours per week during the fall or spring semesters over a period of 14 weeks. Second-year and third-year law student applicants must have completed a minimum of two semesters of law school. First-year law students, who have not completed their first semester, may only apply after December 1.