3/24 ABA Curtin Fellowship - paid Legal Internship for Summer

[Undergraduate Law BA]

2023 Curtin Fellowship Accepting Applications

Deadline: Friday, March 24, 2023

The Curtin Justice Fund Legal Internship Program is managed by the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty. The Commission will award a $3,500 stipend to three law school students who spend the summer months working for a bar association or legal services program designed to prevent homelessness or assist homeless or indigent clients or their advocates. The Legal Internship Program will provide much-needed legal assistance to organizations serving the under-represented and give students direct experience in a public interest forum.

The ideal intern will have a demonstrated interest in public interest law and experience working with people experiencing homelessness/poverty or on issues affecting them. All law students are eligible, and first year law students are encouraged to apply. The intern must commit no less than eight continuous weeks between May 1 and September 1 to the program of their choice.

Each applicant shall submit a cover letter, resume, application form, and a prospective program's supporting statement. Please be specific about the issues on which you plan to focus and what you hope to accomplish. All files that are part of the application should be sent in order as one PDF. Please send application materials to homeless@americanbar.org.

Application form: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam ... packet.pdf

More information: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/publ ... ent-anchor