Legal Intern I Fall 2026

LatinoJustice PRLDEF • New York, NY

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

LatinoJustice PRLDEF (LJP) seeks a dynamic, creative, and committed Legal Intern to advance civil rights litigation, policy advocacy, and coalition-building in our Headquarters in New York, New York. 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). 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 position reports to the Director of Litigation.

LatinoJustice has been at the forefront of major civil rights litigation since its founding in 1972. Accomplishments have ranged from winning the consent decree in the landmark bilingual education case ASPIRA v. Board of Education of the City of New York (1974) to striking down a Pennsylvania town’s anti-immigrant ordinance in Lozano v. City of Hazleton (2007) to negotiating a $582,000 settlement for 7 Latina immigrant workers in aTitle VII sexual harassment lawsuit in EEOC v. Suffolk Laundry (2013). Recent cases include. In re Cesar Vargas, representing first Dreamer law graduate publicly granted NY State bar admission; : Plaintiffs 1-21 v. Suffolk County Police Department, securing police reform class action settlement for class of Latino drivers and pedestrians racially profiled by county police; Hispanic Federation v. Byrd, challenging Floridas ban on hiring noncitizens to register voters; ‘nonCASA v. Wheeler, winning settlement of Voting Rights Act challenge on behalf of Puerto Rican voters in Pennsylvania; and Reyes v. City of New York, winning an injunction against the NYPDsban on filming police activity in public precinct lobbies.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Coursework on Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Employment, Immigration, and/or Voting Rights.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed