Legal Internship

Description

The Legal Internship is open to students with an interest in civil rights litigation, policy advocacy, and coalition-building. The position requires a strategic thinker with demonstrated proficiency in LJP’s priority issues (pillars), including economic justice, immigrant rights, voting rights and redistricting, criminal justice reform (prisons and policing), and issues specific to Puerto Rico. The position will also assist the LJP legal staff in developing and implementing a range of strategies to infuse and advance a movement lawyering practice in all LJP’s work, including through research, advocacy, community engagement and education, coalition building, and strategic communications.