Summer 2025 Legal Internship - Southeast

Only law students enrolled in a Juris Doctor or LLM program in the United States will be considered for legal internship positions. Applicants with demonstrated social justice experience preferred.

LatinoJustice PRLDEF (LJP) seeks a dynamic, creative, and committed Legal Intern to advance civil rights litigation, policy advocacy, and coalition-building in our Southeast Regional Office (SEO) in Orlando, Florida. The position requires a strategic thinker with demonstrated proficiency in LJP’s priority issues (pillars), including economic justice, immigrant rights, voting rights and redistricting, criminal justice reform (prisons and policing), and issues specific to Puerto Rico. The position will also assist the LJP legal staff in developing and implementing a range of strategies to infuse and advance a movement lawyering practice in all LJP’s work, including through research, advocacy, community engagement and education, coalition building, and strategic communications. This

Recent LatinoJustice Southeast cases and projects include: (1) Rivera Madera et. al. v. Lee, VRA Section 4e voting rights language assistance litigation v. 30 local county Boards of Election which resulted in several favorable preliminary orders and eventual case settlement after Florida had adopted state-wide language assistance regulations; (2) DaSilva v. USCIS, a MAVNI citizenship delay case where our client, a Brazilian LPR serving in the army was able to become a United States citizen; (3) Caban v. Georgia DDS, obtaining successful settlement reforming Georgia’s driver’s license eligibility regulations for Puerto Ricans who had relocated to Georgia; (4) co-led Amendment 4 campaign in Florida to restore the right to vote to millions of formerly incarcerated individuals; and, (5) Cada Voto Cuenta, a non-partisan campaign aiming to overcome the barriers for limited English speaking voters.

We are proud to have a professional team deeply committed to our mission. We look to hire individuals who share our commitment, who are emotionally intelligent, emphatic, and good team players. We strive to maintain a positive, interconnected, value driven culture, where opportunities for individual and professional development are available to all. If this sounds like the kind of place you’d like to be, we invite you to apply.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Primary responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct fact investigations and legal research
• Draft sections of legal briefs, memos of law, pleadings, and other litigation documents
• Participate in client & witness interviews and trial preparation
• Accompany staff lawyers to court proceedings and legislative hearings
• Join every stage of planning, developing, and prosecuting our impact cases

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications

• Energetic, motivated law students with a record of commitment to social justice work
• Excellent legal, written, research, and communications skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Coursework on Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Employment, Immigration, Voting Rights and Anti-discrimination Claims
• Involvement in legal analytical and research skills workshops

• Ability to conduct complex legal analysis and fact-finding
• Bilingual Spanish/English is a plus but not required.

We are happy to help students obtain academic course credit through school clinical externship programs and/or satisfy pro bono volunteer requirements at school or for bar admission.

Please note:

LJP staff is currently working on hybrid mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of this posting, this internship is designed as hybrid work experience with combined in-person and remote work.

POLICY DISCLOSURES:

LatinoJustice PRLDEF is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or any other legally protected status.

By submitting an application for employment, you attest that all the information provided is true, accurate and complete. You acknowledge and are aware that the falsification, misrepresentation, or omission of any requested information on your application and any accompanying documents will be grounds for denial of employment. In the event such falsification, misrepresentation or omission is discovered subsequent to an offer and acceptance of employment, you acknowledge that any such false or misleading information in your application or provided during interview(s) will constitute grounds for discipline including termination of employment and discharge, regardless of when or how such false or misleading information