Must be a KHLF member. KHLF runs two different grant programs, summer grants and bar grants. The summer grants are given to first and second year law students doing unpaid public interest work during their summer. The bar grants are given to graduating third year law students going into public interest positions. The bar grant covers the cost of a Bar Prep course and all related Bar Exam fees. KHLF considers grant applications based on the specific project the applicant proposes, and evaluates the application in light of the legal needs that are served by the employer organization. KHLF administers three types of grants (see application for additional details):

General Public Interest Grant (funded by KHLF)
Washington, DC, Grant (funded by the UC Davis Washington Center)
Public Interest Health Law Grant (funded by a grant from The California Endowment)

1L or 2L of King Hall, member of KHLF, volunteer 20 hours to Annual Spring Auction

Application form online, personal statement, 2-4 page grant proposal, letter from the organization confirming its interest in your proposal

Grants will be awarded for international internships that commence between June and September of 2009. Primary consideration will be given to the quality of the internship experience and how it relates to the applicant's academic and career goals. Academic achievement, extra curricular activities and expression of financial need will also be considered in the selection process. Funds will be administered upon successful completion of the internship and submission of transcript notation paperwork.

Currently enrolled UC Davis students

Application form online, personal statement, resume, transcript, photocopy of passport, and one letter of recommendation

The mission of The Peggy Browning Fund is to provide law students with diverse, challenging work and educational experiences in the area of workers’ rights. More than 40 organizations participate including UNITE HERE Local 2 (San Francisco), United Mine Workers of American (Washington, DC) and Screen Actors Guild (New York).

Students who have completed one year of law of school; see individual mentor organizations for additional eligibility requirements.

Application form online, cover letter and resume.  Applicants may apply to a maximum of 5 mentor organizations (listed on website).

The National Lawyers Guild Summer Projects Program places hundreds of students with public interest organizations that are struggling to protect and further the civil rights of oppressed people in the United States.

Eligibility requirements vary; refer to website for a full description

Application form available on website.

 Internship for first and second year law students that combines front-line labor related public interest legal work with grassroots organizing in real, ongoing campaigns by AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) affiliated unions in various regions of the country. In addition to legal research and writing LSUS interns are involved in community outreach, member mobilization, corporate and other non-legal research, legislative campaigns and general litigation.

1L or 2L students and demonstrated interest in labor law

Application form online, cover letter, resume, law school transcripts, references

Encourages students to pursue business court clerkship opportunities and to consider careers in the practice of business law. During the internship, there will be both substantive programming and networking opportunities.

Completion of first or second year of law school at the start of internship.

Application form online, resume, official undergraduate and law school transcripts, two letters of reference, an essay of  500 words or less (as described in the application), and a writing sample. Submit to: Heather Scheidt, ABA Section of Business Law 18.1, 321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654 or email to scheidth@staff.abanet.org.

Students gain experience and insight into the field and provide much needed services to child welfare offices specializing in representing children, parents, and social service agencies. After attending a 3 day training session in May at the University of Michigan Law School, Fellows spend at least 10 weeks at their placements. Some advantage is given to students who have arranged their own summer placements and all or part of their summer living stipend. However, applicants should not be deterred if they have not identified their summer placement or source of summer money. Once accepted into the fellowship program, we will assist in placement and the search for funds.

Law students with evidence of commitment to the field of children's law, past experiences related to children and family, and performance indicative of likely future success in the field.

Application form online, statement of interest, resume, and two reference letters

Provides law students the opportunity to work with the consumer protection and antitrust departments of state and territorial Offices of Attorneys General throughout the United States, as well as the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs.

Students who will have completed their first or second year of law school

Application form online, resume, statement of interest, writing sample, law school transcript

Internship candidates compete for assignments in organizations involved with habitat protection, advocacy, conservation biology, energy, policy implementation, marine conservation, environmental/resource management, and wildlife and endangered species protection.

Students who are interested in preserving and protecting the environment

Application form online, resume, transcript/GPA, and two letters of recommendation (one should be academic)

The Section’s work on environmental justice is coordinated with not-for-profit organizations representing traditionally undeserved groups, other not-for-profit environmental organizations, and local, state and federal governmental organizations which provide placements for our summer Fellowship recipients. Recipients will choose the state they wish to intern in, but will not be able to select where or in which organization they will be placed.

First and second year law students or third year night students from underrepresented or underserved groups, including for example, minority or low-income populations who wish to study and pursue careers in environmental law

Applications and materials required for applying vary by state. Most states require an application form, resume, law school transcripts, two letters of recommendation, and a short essay describing your interest/reasons for wanting to participate.

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, is dedicated to ending discrimination, securing equal rights and protecting the health and safety of GLBT Americans. Law Fellows work with HRC attorneys, outside counsel with major national law firms, lobbyists, organizational allies and congressional and White House staff members on legislative, regulatory and internal corporate matters. Practice areas include constitutional, contract, criminal, education, employment, disability, family, benefits, tax, health care, immigration, intellectual property, media, military and real estate law. Fellows undertake projects involving sophisticated legal research and writing, analysis and drafting of legislation and administrative regulations, legislative and regulatory advocacy and national coalition work.

1Ls, 2Ls, 3Ls and LL.M. candidates are eligible

Cover letter, resume, brief legal writing sample (five pages or less), the names of two references and a law school transcript

Provides stipends to law students employed as unpaid summer interns in positions with the FCC and other government agencies or entities with a connection to the communications industry (i.e., broadcasting, cable television, telephony, satellite, wireless, and information technology).

Law Students

Application form

Grant is awarded to law students for projects that make governmental and social institutions and agencies more accessible and responsive to members of society whose interests are not otherwise adequately recognized or asserted. Project must benefit residents of the Greater Los Angeles area.  The grant program is designed not to support a summer public interest job, as worthy as one is, but rather to fund a particular project with a tangible outcome.

Law student

Application form online, resume, two essays, two letters of recommendation, and budget description

Created to assist law students in gaining practical experience in the public sector and to encourage careers in the law that further the goals of social justice, while contributing valuable legal support to organizations serving the under-represented in Massachusetts.  Applicants need to have secured a volunteer internship with a qualified nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.

All 1L and 2L students are eligible to apply, however, preference is given to current/future residents of Massachusetts.

Online application form, resume, official transcript, letter of reference, essay (see website)

The award is meant to enable the student to gain practical experience in public service by taking a no-pay or low-pay job or internship during a summer or other term. Preference will be given applicants who have already found such a position, but who require additional funds.

Students engaged in public service work

Resume, essay describing short and long term goals including the need for funds, 3 letters of reference, at least one from a faculty member.

PERC is seeking graduate or law students who are interested in natural resources and environmental issues and who show potential for research and writing in these areas. Participants will have the opportunity to spend 3 months with experts in the free market environmentalism movement and mentored by internationally known scholars who are working on natural resource and environmental research topics themselves. The program provides office space and support for completing a research project in an area of specific interest.

Graduate or law students who are interested in natural resources and environmental issues and who show potential for research and writing in these areas. Preference is given to those who are working on a research paper, thesis, or dissertation on a natural resource or environmental topic. Law candidates most often are hoping to transform a paper they wrote for a class into a law review article.

 Cover letter, resume, writing sample, one letter of reference, law transcript, description of proposed project

Open to law students working under the supervision of an attorney at a 501©(3) tax exempt non-profit group anywhere in the nation. Supports work of concern to the lesbian and gay community in the public sector.

Law students

TBA

Provide funding for students working with non-profit organizations serving New York's Asian American community on approved projects. Applicants are responsible for arranging their own projects.  A list of organizations that have hosted students in the past is on website. The list is only provided as an example and no guarantee is made that the organizations will continue to host students in 2009 or that volunteering at one of these organizations entitles the applicant to a Scholarship.

Law students

Application form, resume, essay, transcript, letter of recommendation, and description of other scholarships, grants or awards being used. Applicants should include a description of their proposed summer community service project and the name, email address and phone number of a supervisor at the organization.

For the summer of 2009, the Williams Institute will award two or more Summer Fellowships, including the Gleason/Kettel Law Fellowships, which provide law students, or recent law school graduates, to work with an organization, scholar, or research center, focused on sexual orientation law and public policy. Eligible summer placements include internships with the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Williams Institute, and similar national and local organizations and research centers.  Eligible placements also include summer research positions with law professors where the applicant will be spending the entire summer assisting with sexual orientation law and policy scholarship.  Applicants must have a strong academic record and have demonstrated their commitment to a career in sexual orientation law and public policy.  Applicants must be law students or recent law student graduates. Preference will be given to applicants who have prearranged a summer position with a qualifying organization

Law students who have a strong academic record and have demonstrated their commitment to a career in sexual orientation law and public policy.

Cover letter addressing the selection criteria, resume, transcript, and application from website.

The Curtin Justice Fund Legal Internship Program is managed jointly by the ABA
Commission on Homelessness and Poverty and the Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants. The fellowship is designed for students who spend summer months working for a bar association or legal services program designed to prevent homelessness or assist homeless or indigent clients or their advocates. The goal of the program is to help homeless clients and to encourage careers in the law that further the goals of social justice.

All law students are eligible; 1L’s are encouraged to apply

Cover letter, resume, application form and prospective program's supporting statement should be submitted to: Curtin Internship Program, ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, 740 15th St., NW, Washington, DC 20005.

All fellows must work at a public interest “sponsoring” organization, subject to approval by the Fellowship. In the past, the Fellowship has approved organizations classified as 501(c)(3)s (by the IRS Code) and public defenders’ offices. The organization must be in either the San Francisco Bay Area or the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

1L and 2L students

Cover letter, resume, three references, and answers to the questions listed on the “How to Apply” section of the Takasugi website.

 SABANY annually awards four fellowships to outstanding law students who have demonstrated a commitment to public service so that they may spend their summer working unpaid in the New York area public interest sector. Fellowships are awarded to either law students of South Asian descent working in an unpaid legal internship or those spending at least six weeks of the summer in an unpaid legal internship focusing on the needs of the South Asian community.

Law students of South Asian descent working in an unpaid legal internship or those spending at least six weeks of the summer in an unpaid legal internship focusing on the needs of the South Asian community.

 Applicant/employer information, job evaluation, personal statement, resume, and financial need information.

The Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) sponsors a Summer Internship Program for first and second year law students funding dozens of internships at public interest law agencies in the Chicago metropolitan area. The program is open to law students from across the country. PILI ensures quality supervision by experienced lawyers at the agencies, and provides a lunch-time educational program. The program seeks to have law students work at and learn about legal institutions serving the public interest, and to engender a life-long participation in public interest law and pro bono work.

1L and 2L

 Must first register online. Registration is free. Cover letter and resume. Each agency has its own hiring practices. See website for additional application information.

Summer Corps is an AmeriCorps-funded program. The Equal Justice Works Summer Corps program engages law students around the country who are expanding the delivery of legal services to those who need it most. Summer Corps is an AmeriCorps-funded program that in 2009 will provide 355 law students with the opportunity to earn a $1,000 education award voucher for dedicating their summer to a qualifying legal project at a nonprofit public interest organization. Summer Corps members provide critically needed legal assistance in low-income and undeserved communities in the United States on a broad range of issue areas.

Law students

The 2009 Summer Corps application will be available online from March 18 to April 1. Notification of status—accepted, rejected or waitlisted—will be sent to all applicants by April 17

Through the Legal Services Summer Fellowship Program (initiated in 1995), the Foundation provides summer fellowships to first-and second-year law students from accredited law schools throughout the nation. Each summer, law students are placed at eligible Foundation-funded legal assistance providers. The purposes of the fellowship program are to: involve law students in the provision of civil legal assistance to the poor in critical areas of need; provide an in-depth educational experience in representing the poor and working with individual clients and client groups in civil matters; increase law student interest in and awareness of the legal problems of the poor and the challenges and satisfactions of representing the poor; and promote commitment to pro bono representation of the poor.

Application form online

Law students working with Bay Area community-based legal service providers to enhance the delivery of legal services to the Latino community. Fellowships will be awarded where there is a substantial Latino population in need of legal services. See website for a listing of projects which will receive priority.

Law students

Application form online, resume, letters of recommendation

The Foundation provides financial assistance for a law student working at a public agency. The primary purpose of the fellowship is to fund a student’s internship with a public interest organization in either the South Asian community or the Northern California community-at-large. In 2008 the Foundation awarded three $3,000 fellowships to law students working with the Asian Law Alliance, the AI Legal Outreach center, and the Health Education & Welfare Section of the Attorney General’s Office.

 Law students enrolled in a Northern California law school

Application form online, essay responses, resume with references. See website for additional requirements.

Fellowship is offered to law students who have a strong interest in working to defend and expand the legal rights of the poor and the disadvantaged. At least one Fellowship will be given to an applicant who works in a rural program or on a rural issue. Host Programs must be current 2009 Organizational Members of LAAC at the time of the student’s application. For a list of eligible programs, please go to 2009 LAAC Members.

 Law students

Application form, resume, personal statement, and at least two references

The primary purpose of the fellowships is to fund a student's internship with a public interest organization that benefits either the Asian Pacific American community or the metropolitan Washington, D.C. community-at-large. Such organizations include governmental organizations and other non-profits serving the public interest.

Currently enrolled law students

Application form online, essay, resume, transcript and two letters of recommendation

Open to 1L students who intend to carry out significant activities during the summer in the areas of civil rights and/or civil liberties. Proposed activities may include a writing or research project, work with a public interest organization in the areas of civil rights or civil liberties, work on a civil rights or civil liberties law case under the supervision of a faculty member or lawyer, or any other work in the areas of civil rights or civil liberties.

First-year law students who intend to carry out significant activities during the summer in the areas of civil rights and/or civil liberties.

Proposal, no more than 2 pages, describing project, resume, letter of recommendation, and name of faculty or organization sponsor and send to: Robert Masur Fellowship, The Nation Institute, 116 East 16th Street, 8th Fl., New York, N.Y. 10003

The Legal Foundation of Washington sponsors 1-2 internships in a community based legal service program. Responsibilities will vary depending on organization which is selected by the foundation.

2L law students through recent graduates; additional requirements will vary from year to year.

Application form and additional information online

 Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ) sponsors a paid intern program during the summer, awarding summer intern fellowships in New Jersey public interest legal organizations to rising 2nd and 3rd year law students. The purpose of this program is to promote awareness of and commitment to careers in public interest law by offering rewarding employment opportunities to law students. In past years, students have been employed in Legal Services programs as well as other public interest entities, such as the Association for Children of New Jersey, the American Friends Service Committee, Community Health Law Project, and Jersey Battered Women's Service.

Students who will have completed their first or second year of law school by summer

Application form online, resume, and writing sample

Assigned to one or two attorneys, students are primarily responsible for legal research and writing on current and potential cases. Assignments may include litigation memos, pleadings, and collaborative briefs and motions. In addition, tasks related to discovery and trial preparation may be assigned. The LAS-ELC interviews candidates in the San Francisco Bay area during the fall on campus recruitment process, applications from all interested students are gladly received.

Preference for students who will have completed their second year of law school

 Cover letter, resume, legal writing sample, transcript, and 3 references. Send to:
Human Resources, The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, 600 Harrison Street, Suite 120,
San Francisco, CA  94107

The Law Department is perhaps the only public sector/public interest employer in the country to make offers of permanent employment to its summer interns based on their performance during the summer. Whether or not a law student is considering permanent employment with the Law Department, the Summer Honors Program offers a unique insider's view of City government.

1L and 2L

Applications should include a cover letter, resume, and law school transcript. Applicants are advised to discuss their division preferences in their cover letters.

Appleseed is seeking people with creativity and personal initiative who are interested in working on developing systemic responses to pressing local and national issues. Depending on the particular placement, fellows can expect to be involved in legal and community organizing, research and writing, factual investigation and to work with staff and volunteer attorneys as well as activists. Although the projects of each Appleseed Center vary, issues being addressed include housing, consumer protection, children's issues, public health/healthcare, electoral reform, juvenile justice, economic justice, educational reform, and corporate and government accountability. First year students are encouraged to apply for summer fellowships.

Law Students

Send resume and cover letter to: mbarnes@appleseeds.net

The Koch Summer Fellow Program seeks to encourage the understanding and application of market-based solutions to social and economic problems, especially through public policy.
Choose from two tracks – Public Policy in Washington, DC, and Public Policy in a state based organization (see website for specific states and program description). This is a comprehensive program in which participants will spend the first and last weeks of the program in public policy themed workshops and seminars. If accepted to the program, the Institute for Humane Studies will assign you an internship at one of a variety of participating host organizations. In the application, you will be asked to provide information about which program track and potential host organizations most interest you. Using our knowledge about the different organizations, their specific projects, and their needs, we take your preferences into account and arrange the best possible summer experience for you.

Undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates between the ages of 18-30 are eligible to apply.

Online application form which includes essay questions and transcript

Legal research and writing for state or federal judges in Illinois (Chicago and all Circuit Courts throughout the State), Texas (Houston, Dallas, Southern and Eastern Texas), Washington, DC, Miami, FL, Phoenix, AZ, and Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA.

1L or 2L minority and/or financially disadvantaged law students

Application form, statement of interest, resume, transcripts (for 2Ls), legal writing sample; Intellectual Property Law applicants must submit a one page summary of qualifications.