TRLA Internships and Clerkships, Summer Unpaid

Full-time

No

# Overview of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) Internships and Clerkships
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) regularly hosts undergraduate students, recent graduates, and law students in offices across our service area for a semester, internship, externship, a mini-mester, co-op, or the summer. TRLA internships and clerkships are unpaid. TRLA also has limited summer fellowship funding for students placed in a rural office.

## Qualifications
To qualify for a TRLA internship or clerkship, applicants must:

- Be an undergraduate student or recent graduate seeking internship
- Be a law student seeking clerkship or summer fellowship
- Have Spanish fluency
- Have an interest in rural or border placement
- Have a maximum of 3 words
- Have an approximate date of graduation from undergraduate school
- Have a Spanish language proficiency
- Have preferred offices for their time working with TRLA
- Have a cover letter addressing one or more of the following:
- 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.
- Upload a resume
- Upload a writing sample
- Upload references
- Answer how they heard about TRLA and/or TRLA clerkships/internships
- Answer if they are related to any current employee of TRLA, TRLA's Board of Directors, or other person that is compensated by TRLA for their services

## Benefits
TRLA offers a unique opportunity to gain legal experience in public interest law. TRLA works with individuals and communities throughout Texas to protect and advance their rights and opportunities to lead healthy and productive lives. Interns and clerks will have the chance to gain experience in a wide range of civil legal services and law reform.

## Application Process
TRLA accepts applications for unpaid clerkships and internships year-round. Interested applicants should visit our website for more information about TRLA's practice areas and submit an application. The application should include a cover letter, resume, writing sample, references, and answers to the questions posed on the application.

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Spanish

Spanish fluency, Interest in rural or border placement

Visit our website for more information about TRLA's practice areas. Please list the types of cases or areas of law you that interest you, please list any tasks you are particularly interested in helping with or particular skills you'd like to develop with us, where are you going to law school, approximate date of graduation, where did you get your undergraduate degree(s), approximate date of graduation from undergraduate school, using the Interagency Language Roundtable Language Skill Level Descriptions, please describe your Spanish language proficiency, TRLA seeks clerks, fellows, and interns who are interested in working in the locations where our clients live. Please select your preferred offices for your time working with us, upload a cover letter addressing one or more of the following, upload your resume, upload a writing sample, upload your references, how did you hear about TRLA and/or TRLA clerkships/internships, are you related to any current employee of TRLA, TRLA's Board of Directors, or other person that is compensated by TRLA for their services

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

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