TRLA Internships and Clerkships, Summer Unpaid

Full-time

No

## Overview: TRLA Clerkships and Internships

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) provides a variety of unpaid clerkships and internships for undergraduate and law students. These internships and clerkships can last for a semester, a mini-mester, a co-op, a summer fellowship, or an internship. TRLA offers placements across our service area and is looking for applicants who are fluent in Spanish and/or interested in rural and border locations.

## Applying for a TRLA Internship or Clerkship

TRLA accepts applications for unpaid clerkships and internships year-round. When applying, applicants must provide a cover letter addressing one or more of the topics listed below, a resume, a writing sample, and references. Applicants must also provide their preferred start date, indicate whether they are an undergraduate student or recent graduate seeking an internship or a law student seeking a clerkship or summer fellowship, indicate whether they would like to be considered for a TRLA summer fellowship, list the types of cases or areas of law that interest them, list any tasks they are particularly interested in helping with, list where they are going to law school, list where they received their undergraduate degree(s), and indicate their Spanish language proficiency. Applicants must also indicate their preferred TRLA offices.

## Cover Letter Topics

Applicants must provide a cover letter that addresses one or more of the following topics:

- Describe a significant legal or social justice experience and its impact on your plan to pursue public interest law.
- Describe some of the unique challenges you think or know clients in our service area may experience in rural or border areas and how an agency like TRLA can help.
- Describe any connection, personal or professional, to our service area and the client populations we serve.

## TRLA's Service Area

TRLA seeks clerks, fellows, and interns who are interested in working in the locations where our clients live. The following offices are available:

- Austin
- Alpine
- Brownsville
- Corpus Christi
- Del Rio
- Dilley
- Eagle Pass
- Edinburg
- El Paso
- Harlingen
- Laredo
- Mercedes
- Nashville, TN - Southern Migrant Legal Services
- Rio Grande City
- San Antonio
- Sinton
- Uvalde
- Victoria
- Weslaco

## Salary Information

TRLA internships and clerkships are unpaid. We have limited summer fellowship funding for students placed in a rural office.

## Contact Information

If you have any questions, feel free to contact .

Unpaid

Spanish

Spanish fluency, Interest in rural or border placement

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Qualification and Experience Undergraduate student or recent graduate seeking internship, Law student seeking clerkship or summer fellowship

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