Location: Office of Tribal Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530

Qualifications: All full-time second or third year law students. Students should have excellent academic credentials, good writing skills and basic knowledge of Federal Indian law.

Dates Available: Fall (August through December); Spring (January through April); Summer (May - August)

Overview: The internship is designed to give students the opportunity to gain firsthand experience in working on challenging projects and cases principally involving issues of Federal Indian law. Interns work closely with attorneys in the Office of Tribal Justice on a variety of diverse projects. Work may include legal research, drafting legal memoranda, public policy development, citizen correspondence and briefs and written discovery on a wide range of federal Indian law issues. Also, interns will have the opportunity to attend Senate committee hearings, oral arguments before the Supreme Court and other high level meetings with OTJ attorneys.

Salary: Volunteer (no compensation) or academic credit (to be decided by each school) only.

Application Please submit a resume together with cover letter, an official transcript, Procedures: writing sample (optional) and dates available to:

U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Tribal Justice
Attn: OTJ Intern Coordinator
950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20530

Application Open until filled. Autumn positions typically filled by mid-July. Spring positions Deadlines: typically filled by mid-December. Summer positions typically filled by mid-March.

The U.S. Department of Justice is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation employer.