Summer Judicial Internship: Opportunity for First and Second Year Law Students
**AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FIRST AND SECOND YEAR LAW STUDENTS**
The Judicial
Resources Committee of the United States Judicial Conference and Just The
Beginning – A
Pipeline Organization are pleased to announce the seventh annual Summer
Judicial Internship
Diversity Project (“Project”). The Project’s goal is to provide
underrepresented law students summer judicial internships in
the chambers of federal and state
appellate judges, federal district judges, and federal
bankruptcy and magistrate judges. The
Project is national in scope and seeks to place
approximately 100 law students as judicial interns
across the country. Since 2015, we have placed over 400
applicants in internships across 36
states.
Interns will have the opportunity to draft bench memoranda,
judicial orders, and opinions on a
variety of substantive matters, including motions to
dismiss, motions for summary judgment,
magistrate judge reports, and habeas corpus petitions.
Applicants should possess strong research
and writing skills and be prepared to handle the rigors of
working in a court.
An initial screening will identify qualified candidates
eligible for a first-round interview, which
will be conducted either in-person or by telephone.
Applicants who clear this round will be
referred to one of the Project’s Participating Judges for a
second-round interview, after which
each Participating Judge will make a final hiring decision.
Applicants who are hired must
commit to attending two mandatory training workshops prior
to the beginning of the internship,
either in-person or via videoconference, and must be
available to work full-time as an unpaid
intern for a minimum of six weeks.
JRC-JTB 2018 Summer Judicial Internship Diversity Project
HOW TO APPLY:
* APPLICATIONS WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED THROUGH OUR ONLINE APPLICATION PORTAL, HERE.
Applicants should submit the following materials as one PDF document named
Lastname_Firstname_Summer 2018 JRC-JTB Application and organized in the
following order:
(1) a cover letter* explaining the applicant's interest
in diversity and participating in the Summer
Judicial Internship Diversity Project; (2) a resume; (3) a
law school transcript, official or
unofficial (if first semester law school grades are
unavailable or incomplete, please send an
undergraduate transcript and supplement with law school
grades as they become available to
sjidproject@jtb.org); (4) a writing sample (no more than
10 pages in length); (5) a list of three
references (no family members, please); and (6) a signed
Memorandum of Understanding.
Paper applications will not be accepted. To access the
online application, please visit
www.jtb.org, search under the programs tab and click on the
‘2018 Summer Judicial Internship
Project for Law Students’, or visit
https://www.tfaforms.com/4642477. At present, this is an
unpaid internship, so applicants are encouraged to seek law
school or non-profit funding.
Applicants are also strongly encouraged to apply to the
ABA’s Judicial Intern Opportunity
Program, which has been a source of funding for Project
interns. Students who apply to both JIOP
and JRC-JTB AND are placed with an existing JIOP judge in a
JIOP program location, may
participate in both programs and receive funding (the $2,000
award) from the JIOP program. All
applicants may participate in the JRC-JTB interviewing
webinar and students recommended for
judicial review through JIOP may also participate in the
writing seminar.
*NOTE: Applications will be available beginning November 10,
2017. Applications will be
received online until 5:00 p.m. EST on January 10, 2018.
Early applications are highly
encouraged.
*Please address your cover letter to:
Just the Beginning-A Pipeline Organization
ATTN: Jenna K. Feldman
70 W. Madison St., Suite 2900
Chicago, IL 60602
General application questions can be directed to
sjidproject@jtb.org