Law Student Union Summer (LSUS) is a unique and exciting 10-week internship for law students that combines front-line labor-related public interest legal work with grassroots organizing in real, ongoing campaigns by AFL-CIO affiliated unions in various regions of the country.
In addition to legal research and writing, LSUS interns are involved in community outreach, member mobilization, corporate and other non-legal research, legislative campaigns and general litigation. Responsibilities may include interviewing workers and drafting memorandum with factual and legal analysis in connection with presenting evidence to the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice investigations and administrative hearings. Similar labor-related public interest work may be performed in connection with wage and hour violations, discrimination claims, immigration issues, environmental regulations, consumer protection, workers’ compensation and/or other issues that may arise during organizing or contract campaigns. Organizing activities, including canvassing, planning and implementing solidarity-building activities and participating in meetings and home visits, are another primary component of the program. Travel may be required; work will vary from placement to placement.
Interns work on-site, at locations throughout the country [NOT in Washington, D.C.]. The weekly stipend is $600 and transportation and housing are provided. Interns are supervised by attorneys and union organizers. The program starts on June 1, 2009, and runs through Aug. 7, 2009.
Applicants must have a demonstrated interest in the practice of labor-related public interest law and may be first or second year students; students who have taken one or more labor law courses and who have experience in organizing and/or community activism are preferred. (See eligibility requirements.)
Submit an application, cover letter [see application for requirements], résumé, writing sample, law school transcript and three references [include current contact information] to AFL-CIO Law Student Union Summer:
Online: www.aflcio.org/aboutus/lsus/app.cfm;
E-Mail: Lsus@aflcio.org;
Fax: 202-637-5323;
Mail: Nancy Schiffer, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO
815 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006; Phone: 202-637-5336
Application deadline: Oct. 20, 2008, for 2Ls; Jan. 26, 2009, for 1Ls.
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