Summer Legal Internships

The LCAC invites law students to apply for legal internships for the summer of 2025. We will start accepting 2L applications in August of 2024.

Legal interns work closely with LCAC attorneys. Tasks that legal interns typically perform include:

• conducting legal research, writing legal memoranda, and drafting pleadings;

• reviewing discovery and other evidence;

• obtaining records through state and federal public records laws and analyzing them;

• collecting data that inform the LCAC’s litigation;

• helping prepare for and attending court proceedings; and

• visiting clients.

The LCAC provides interns with several days of training and orientation at the beginning of the summer internship program. The LCAC also organizes weekly brown bag lunches for interns, during which staff members from other local criminal defense and social justice organizations present on a variety of topics.

Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and list of two references to Linda Cortez, at lcortez@thejusticecenter.org, with the subject line “Summer Legal Intern Application.” Non-legal writing samples are acceptable. Please provide a statement of authorship with any writing sample (i.e, a statement regarding the degree to which it is the applicant’s own work, has been edited by others or gone through editing by a professor, etc). Applications are considered on a rolling basis.

The internship requires an eight- to ten-week commitment to work in New Orleans. 

The position is unfunded.  We encourage applicants to seek financial support from their law schools, if available.