3Ls
USPS Honors Program – The US Postal Service has some exciting
Honors Attorney positions open in Washington, DC; Long Beach, CA; Windsor, CT;
and Chicago, IL. This is a permanent, full-time position with benefits.
The salary set initially at $75,000 annually. Apply online by going to www.usps.com click on the
careers link near the bottom of the page and search for Honors Program. Be sure
to include a resume, cover letter, writing sample, and recent transcript to
your application to be considered for the position. Deadline to apply is
February 28, 2014.
Future Appointed Counselor Training Program, Harris County Public
Defender’s Office – The Harris
County Public Defender’s Office (PDO) has established the Future Appointed
Counsel Training (FACT) Program, a year-long training program for new criminal
defense lawyers. The goal of the FACT
Program is to provide comprehensive training, mentoring, and support for new
criminal defense lawyers to ensure that they have the skills and knowledge
necessary to effectively represent indigent defendants. Although it does not
include an offer of a job with the Harris County Public Defender’s Office, it does
include free training at Gideon's Promise, mentoring with a Harris County
criminal defense lawyer, and local training for attorneys who are interested in
indigent criminal defense. Click here for more details and application
instructions: http://harriscountypublicdefender.org/. Deadline to apply is March 31, 2014.
1Ls and 2Ls
Mexican American Legal Defense Fund – The San Antonio Regional Office of the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) seeks legal interns for
Summer 2014. MALDEF is a national non-profit organization whose principal
objective is to promote and protect the civil rights of Latinos living in the
United States. Interested applicants
should send a cover letter, resume and writing sample to Celina Moreno at cmoreno@maldef.org with Summer Internship in the subject line. Positions
are unpaid. Deadline to apply is February 14, 2014.
Access to
Justice Internship Program – The Access to Justice Internship
Program (ATJIP) provides a unique opportunity for law students to participate
in an internship with non-profit providers of civil legal services located in
areas without a local law school. Each law
student will provide direct legal services to low-income clients under the
supervision of accomplished lawyers, while learning about access to justice
matters, legal decision-making, advocacy skills, attorney-client relationships,
and legal institutions. A stipend of $500/week (a lump sum of $5,000) will be
provided to every student to help defray living expenses. For more details and
application instructions, go to: http://www.texasatj.org/internship/. Deadline
to apply is February 28, 2014.
Litigation Section of the
State Bar of Texas Stipends – The Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas
will provide eight stipends with a value of $4,000 each to eight (8) Texas law
students who spend the summer of 2014 working on litigation matters at a legal
aid, pro bono or other non-profit legal services organization or program in
Texas. The public interest organization must apply for the stipend, so students
are encouraged to ask their host organizations to apply on their behalf. More information and application instructions
can be found here: http://litigationsection.com/giving_back_grants. Deadline for
organizations to apply is February 15, 2014.
