What are the responsibilities and job description for the Law Student Intern – Summer 2025 position at Transgender Law Center?
Position: Law Student Intern – Summer 2025
Status: full time or part time
Location: This position can be remote or work out of TLC’s offices in Oakland or Brooklyn
Reports to: Staff Attorney – Impact Litigation Team
Salary: stipend available based on need
About Transgender Law Center
Transgender Law Center is the largest national, trans-led organization working to set all people free. We champion the right of all transgender and gender-nonconforming people to make their own choices and live freely, safely, and authentically. Prioritizing BIPOC, disabled, and HIV communities, we advance community-driven strategies that harness trans knowledge, power, and joy to ensure that we all not only survive but thrive at all ages and phases of life.
We pursue a multidisciplinary approach to advocacy, including nationwide impact litigation, policy advocacy, public education, and direct services through our legal helpdesk and prison mail program. Our legal and policy work encompasses a broad range of issues facing transgender people across the country, with a current focus on cases combatting the criminalization of transgender.
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About the position: Transgender Law Center’s impact litigation team seeks law students as part- or full-time legal interns for the summer of 2025 (dates are flexible). Interns will work remotely, with regular interactions through team meetings, supervision sessions, and participation in our summer intern programming. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Funding is available for those who need it. If you are seeking funding, please indicate that in your cover letter. Requests for funding will not affect your likelihood of obtaining a legal internship.
Legal internships provide law students with a unique opportunity to gain first-hand experience working in transgender rights law. Legal Interns will engage in some of the following tasks under the supervision of Transgender Law Center’s attorneys:
- assist with TLC’s impact litigation docket including performing legal research, case investigation, and document review; producing legal writing (both internal memos and court documents); and participating in co-counsel meetings;
- engage in policy advocacy, including supporting the drafting of policy materials, and non-litigation advocacy on behalf of clients;
- draft Helpdesk and Prison Mail Program responses and resources for the public.
Requirements:
- Enrollment in an ABA accredited law school
- Interest in transgender issues & civil rights law
- Commitment to racial & economic justice
- Strong writing and research skills
- Available to work for a minimum of 12 hours per week
How to Apply: Please submit a cover letter and resume through Bamboo. Please include whether you are seeking a part-time or full-time internship and whether you are seeking funding. If you are seeking funding, please include any other funding sources you would also be receiving for the time period of the internship.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Transgender Law Center is proud to be an affirmative action employer. All interested individuals, including Black, indigenous, and other people of color; women and femmes; people with disabilities; and people who are transgender, intersex, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer are particularly urged to apply. For more information about Transgender Law Center please visit our website: www.transgenderlawcenter.org.
