The Role
Unpaid legal internship supporting NYLAG’s LegalHealth generalist practice. Interns will assist with client intake, legal research and writing, drafting pleadings and motions, client advocacy, government benefits and housing matters, immigration status, estate planning, and client file maintenance while working with staff lawyers and paralegals.
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About NYLAG:
Founded in 1990, NYLAG is a leading civil legal services organization combatting economic, racial, and social injustice by advocating for people experiencing poverty or in crisis. Our services include comprehensive, free civil legal services, financial empowerment, impact litigation, policy advocacy, and community partnerships. NYLAG exists because wealth should not determine who has access to justice. We aim to disrupt systemic racism by serving individuals and families whose legal and financial crises are often rooted in racial inequality. NYLAG goes to where the need is, providing services in more than 150 community sites (e.g. courts, hospitals, libraries) and on our Mobile Legal Help Center. During COVID-19, most of our services were virtual to keep our community safe. NYLAG’s staff of 380 impacted the lives of nearly 129,000 people last year.
Job description
Interns will join LegalHealth’s generalist practice, assisting our work as legal advisors, client advocates and liaisons with government agencies. Interns will collaborate with staff lawyers and paralegals to help patients in securing government benefits, addressing housing issues, accessing immigration status, and creating simple estate planning documents among many other tasks and subject areas. Interns can expect to interview and intake clients, draft memos and legal documents, sharpen advocacy skills, conduct legal research and maintain client files. This internship is unpaid for the Spring 2027 semester.
Duties and Responsibilities
Qualifications
Application Instructions: Please save resume, cover letter, and a writing sample as one pdf.
NYLAG’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
NYLAG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, veterans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, and those with lived experiences in the communities we serve are strongly encouraged to apply.
NYLAG is committed to a hybrid work policy for staff whose work does not require their full-time presence in the office. NYLAG’s current policy is that most staff are required to work in NYLAG’s offices or do other in-person work at least two days each week. This policy is subject to change.
Founded in 1990, NYLAG is a leading civil legal services organization combatting economic, racial, and social injustice by advocating for people experiencing poverty or in crisis. Our services include comprehensive, free civil legal services, financial empowerment, impact litigation, policy advocacy, and community partnerships. NYLAG exists because wealth should not determine who has access to justice. We aim to disrupt systemic racism by serving individuals and families whose legal and financial crises are often rooted in racial inequality. NYLAG goes to where the need is, providing services in more than 150 community sites (e.g. courts, hospitals, libraries) and on our Mobile Legal Help Center. During COVID-19, most of our services were virtual to keep our community safe. NYLAG’s staff of 380 impacted the lives of nearly 129,000 people last year.
Job description
Interns will join LegalHealth’s generalist practice, assisting our work as legal advisors, client advocates and liaisons with government agencies. Interns will collaborate with staff lawyers and paralegals to help patients in securing government benefits, addressing housing issues, accessing immigration status, and creating simple estate planning documents among many other tasks and subject areas. Interns can expect to interview and intake clients, draft memos and legal documents, sharpen advocacy skills, conduct legal research and maintain client files. This internship is unpaid for the Spring 2027 semester.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Draft pleadings and/or the first draft of a substantive motions
- Observe and/or participate in client calls and meetings
- Objective legal research and writing assignments
- Legal research and writing
- Other duties that arise
Qualifications
- MUST BE CURRENT LAW STUDENT
Application Instructions: Please save resume, cover letter, and a writing sample as one pdf.
NYLAG’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
NYLAG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, veterans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, and those with lived experiences in the communities we serve are strongly encouraged to apply.
NYLAG is committed to a hybrid work policy for staff whose work does not require their full-time presence in the office. NYLAG’s current policy is that most staff are required to work in NYLAG’s offices or do other in-person work at least two days each week. This policy is subject to change.
Skills Required
- Must be a current law student
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NYLAG is a leading civil legal services organization combatting economic, racial, and social injustice by advocating for people experiencing poverty or in crisis.
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