Public Citizen: Litigation Group – Summer Clerkship

 

Internship

 

website:

http://www.citizen.org/litigation/Employ/index.cfm

salary:

unpaid

time:

at least 10 weeks

location:

Washington

 

Public Citizen Litigation Group, a Washington, DC–based public interest law firm, is seeking two to three summer law clerks for Summer 2007. The Litigation Group is a division of Public Citizen, a research, lobbying, and public advocacy organization with 100,000 members nationwide. Our areas of practice include federal health and safety regulation, consumer litigation, open government, union democracy, separation of powers, representing objectors to collusive or otherwise unlawful class action settlements, and the First Amendment, including Internet free speech issues. We litigate cases at all levels of the federal and state judiciaries and have a substantial practice before federal regulatory agencies and have argued over 50 cases in the US Supreme Court.

 

Summer law clerks do research and write legal memoranda for use in current Litigation Group cases, under the supervision of the Group’s staff lawyers. Whenever possible, we provide summer clerks with an opportunity to draft actual litigation documents (such as briefs, complaints, or affidavits). We involve law clerks in all Litigation Group activities, such as participating in moot courts, attending court hearings and Congressional hearings, and meeting with clients. In short, summer clerks are an integral part of the office.

 

 

contact:

Office Manager

Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 20th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

Email:

litapplicant@citizen.org