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From: Cody Washington [mailto:hrintern2 at aclu.org]
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Subject: Summer 2017 Legal Internship Opportunity, ACLUF, Criminal Law Reform Project - Pleast Post & Forward

August 23, 2016

SUMMER 2017 LEGAL INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Criminal Law Reform Project, NY


For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. Whether it’s achieving full equality for the LGBT community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, ending mass incarceration, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach. With more than a million members, activists, and supporters, the ACLU is a nationwide organization that fights tirelessly in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., for the principle that every individual’s rights must be protected equally under the law, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or national origin.

The Criminal Law Reform Project of the ACLU’s national office in New York City seeks legal interns for the Summer of 2017.  A stipend is available for those students who do not receive outside funding and/or course credit.  Arrangements can also be made with the student’s law school for work/study stipends or course credit.




OVERVIEW:


The Criminal Law Reform Project seeks an end to excessively harsh crime policies that result in mass incarceration and criminalization and stand in the way of a just, equal, and humane society.  To reduce the number of people entering the criminal justice system, CLRP focuses on preventing over-incarceration and over-criminalization at the “front end” of the criminal justice system.  Key priorities are creating robust statewide indigent defense systems to ensure that people charged with a crime have access to effective assistance of counsel; ending unnecessary and unjust pretrial detention through bail reform and other abusive pretrial practices; reforming unconstitutional and racially biased police practices; reforming our nation’s punitive drug policies, which have failed to achieve public safety and health while eroding constitutional rights and criminalizing unprecedented numbers of people, particularly people of color; challenging governmental abuses of power, particularly by police and prosecutors; and reclaiming equal protection of the laws and guaranteeing substantive and procedural due process protections at each stage of the arrest-to-sentencing process of criminal cases.


INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW:

Interns will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of litigation. The internship is full-time and typically requires a 10 week commitment with a preferred start date of June 1, 2017.




ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:


Legal interns will work on a wide variety of issues.  Working closely with CLRP staff, interns will assist in all aspects of litigation with work that includes:


·         Conducting legal and policy research.

·         Drafting memoranda, affidavits and briefs.

  *   Researching prospects for new litigation, including both factual and legal claims.
  *   Participating in discovery and motion practice.
  *   Assisting in the preparation of expert and percipient witnesses for courtroom testimony
  *   Assisting with the Project’s non-litigation advocacy work.
  *   Other projects as assigned.



EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

The internship is open to all law students who have completed their first year of law school before the internship commences. Applicants must possess:


  *   Excellent research, writing and communication skills.
  *   Ability to analyze complex legal issues.
  *   Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including internet research.
  *   Proficiency in Westlaw or LexisNexis.
  *   The initiative to see projects through to completion.
  *   Experience with criminal law issues preferred.
  *   A strong interest and commitment to criminal law reform, racial justice issues, and civil rights and civil liberties.

HOW TO APPLY:

Applicants should send a cover letter describing their interest in criminal law reform and civil liberties, including any relevant life or work experience gained before or during law school; a resume; a list of two references; and a legal writing sample of no more than ten pages to HRJOBSCLRP at aclu.org<mailto:HRJOBSCLRP at aclu.org> - reference [Summer 2017 CLRP Legal Internship/ACLU-W] in the subject line. Please note that this is not the general ACLU applicant email address. This email address is specific to Criminal Law Reform Project postings. In order to ensure your application is received please make certain it is sent to the correct e-mail address.

Please indicate in your cover letter where you found this job posting.

Students are encouraged to submit applications as early as possible, as decisions are made on a rolling basis.

This posting provides a general but not comprehensive list of the opportunities of the internship.  It does not represent a contract of employment. The ACLU reserves the right to change the posting at any time without advance notice.
The ACLU is an equal opportunity employer.  We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. The ACLU encourages 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, and veteran status.
The ACLU undertakes affirmative action strategies in its recruitment and employment efforts to assure that persons with disabilities have full opportunities for employment in all positions.
We encourage applicants with disabilities who may need accommodations in the application process to contact: HRJobsINCL at aclu.org<mailto:HRJobsINCL at aclu.org>. Correspondence sent to this address that is not related to requests for accommodations will not be reviewed.  Applicants should follow the instructions above regarding how to apply.
The ACLU comprises two separate corporate entities, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation. Both the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation are national organizations with the same overall mission, and share office space and employees. The ACLU has two separate corporate entities in order to do a broad range of work to protect civil liberties. This job posting refers collectively to the two organizations under the name “ACLU.”

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