Summer Intern - 2027

California Appellate Project • San Francisco, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

California Appellate Project (CAP) is committed to cultivating a new generation of criminal defense attorneys. CAP recruits a small number of students for the summer. Under the supervision of an experienced post-conviction attorney, interns will help provide documentary support, record collection, investigative review, research, writing, and technical assistance to counsel who are appointed to represent indigent persons incarcerated on California’s death row. Summer interns at CAP work full-time for 10 weeks. During this time CAP provides a week of intense legal training in addition assigning legal projects related to California death penalty cases. Remote Access Internships may be available. CAP is committed to cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. We ask internship applicants to relate how their experience, training and work history have prepared them to understand and work well with the clients we serve and their communities.

Requirements

• Cover letter
• Resume
• Writing sample
• Names and contact information for 2 references who are familiar with your work
• Relate how their experience, training and work history have prepared them to understand and work well with the clients we serve and their communities

Responsibilities

• Provide documentary support
• Record collection
• Investigative review
• Research
• Writing
• Technical assistance to counsel representing indigent persons incarcerated on California’s death row
• Researching life chronology, family history, and genealogy
• Analyzing witness lists and trial testimony; create lists of additional witnesses
• Researching and assessing the validity of expert testimony presented at trial
• Summarizing the penalty phase of a trial transcript
• Collecting and organizing litigation resource materials
• Evaluating crime scene evidence
• Reviewing trial testimony, witness statements, and police reports for discrepancies
• Writing an authoritative article on the media gag rule and outsider access to prisoners on death row
• Assisting in preparing litigation outlines and chronologies
• Drafting memorandum on admissibility of evidence of gang affiliation

What This Job Offers

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