Legal Intern/Extern, U.S. Legal Services

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $17 / hour

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🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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International Refugee Assistance Project

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

⚖️ Legal

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

Legal • Charity • Non-profit

International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing legal support and advocacy for refugees and displaced persons. Through innovative legal services, IRAP ensures safe passage and fair treatment for those in need of refuge. With a focus on systemic advocacy and litigation, IRAP aims to create pathways to safety and resettlement, while addressing issues of forced migration on a global scale.

📋 Description

• Support direct representation of forcibly displaced people and family members seeking safe passage to the United States by drafting memos and briefs, conducting fact-finding, and interviewing clients • Conduct intake interviews and identify client needs for direct services • Participate in discrete special projects, including remote legal clinics • Conduct outreach to affected communities • Prepare legal information materials and participate in public education efforts • Draft and update legal practitioner guides • Analyze changes in law and newly released government documents • Create materials to assist IRAP staff and legal aid practitioners

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a rising 2L or 3L, enrolled in a J.D. program in the United States • Strong research, writing, and analytical skills • Strong interpersonal and communication skills • Sensitivity to client empowerment and to working with clients of all backgrounds, including LGBTI clients, survivors of trauma, and other vulnerable populations • Initiative to see projects through and ability to multitask • Proficiency in Google Workspace • Excellent English communication skills required • Strong interest in refugee processing, immigration law, and human rights • Must have work authorization in the United States to apply for an internship; candidates may apply for an externship regardless of work authorization status • Ability to speak Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Somali, Pashto, Kurdish, or Spanish is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid compensation of $17 per hour, or the intern’s state minimum wage, for 40 hours per week if paid by IRAP • Public interest funding from law schools encouraged • Non-compensated externship for academic credit(s) • Remote internship • Option to work out of IRAP’s New York City office space • Full-time summer internship with a 10-week commitment