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Alameda County District Attorney
Mr. Kevin Dunleavy
661 Washington Street, Rm 225
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel. 510-268-7500
Fax 510-839-0391
Email: kevin.dunleavy@acgov.org
http: www.co.alameda.ca.us/da/
Alameda County Public Defender
Mr. Brendan Woods
1401 Lakeside Drive, Suite 400
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel. 510-272-6600
Fax 510-
Email:
http: www.co.alameda.ca.us/defender/
Alameda County Superior Court – Family Law Facilitator
Ms. Candace Goldman
1225 Fallon Street, Room 240
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel. 510-208-4970
Fax 510-208-4938
Email: Families&ChildrensBureau@alameda.courts.ca.gov
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Alameda County Self-Help Program
Carol Raimondi
Program Director
661 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel. (510) 268-7167
Fax (510) 268-7695
http: www.alameda.courts.ca.gov
Email: craimondi@alameda.courts.ca.gov
We assist self-represented litigants by providing legal information and referrals. We provide assistance with forms preparation, legal procedures, Domestic Violence and Civil Harassment filings, Family Law in all stages of the process, and we provide Small Claims advice.
Please send resumes to Carole Raimondi for review with the attorney staff. There will be an informal interview to see if the placement is a good fit for both the student and our Self-Help Center. We would like to have the externs working with us in early September and be available for at least one day of training. There will be continuous training on-site throughout the semester.
Law students are supervised by the two Self-Help attorneys. They will be given assignments in addition to their work with the public. They will have weekly reflection sessions with the attorneys for feedback on their work, to ask questions, and receive additional training. They will have an opportunity to participate in our Family Law Day of Court Clinics at Family Law pro per calendars, and they will observe Small Claims and restraining order hearings, depending on their externship schedule. Their main work will be to serve the diverse self-represented litigant community by responding to questions on procedure and process, assisting with forms completion and provide referrals.
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Ms. Julia Mass
Supervising Attorney
1663 Mission Street, Suite 460
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. (415) 621-2493
Fax (415) 255-8437
Email:
http: www.aclunc.org
The ACLU of Northern California invites second and third year law students to apply for internships in the Legal Department of the San Francisco office. Internships are available during the school year and during the summer. Virtually all intern work involves civil liberties and constitutional law. The ACLU-NC's priorities include: Police Practices, Race Discrimination/Racial Justice, Student Rights, Lesbian & Gay Rights, Surveillance, Reproductive Rights, Immigrant Rights, Language Rights, Cyber Liberties, Criminal Justice, and First Amendment Rights.
Time: The full-time internship is 40 hours per week. The part-time internship (during Fall or Spring semesters) is 16 hours per week minimum. Part-time internships are not available during the summer. “Split” summers are not allowed.
Pay/Credit: During the school year, most students work for credit only. Some work-study funding is available; grant matches are considered. For summer internships, students are encouraged to seek independent funding through their law school if available. If funding is not available, the ACLU-NC will provide a rate of $12.00 per hour.
The Job: Student interns perform legal research and writing, and occasionally draft portions of court papers. When possible, interns attend appellate arguments, trial proceedings and depositions. There is also a limited amount of fact investigation and individual complaint resolution. Student interns also participate in legal staff meetings.
Supervision: Student interns work with one or more of our staff attorneys.
How to Apply: Students should send one copy of their cover letter, resume, writing sample and list of references to Cynthia D. Williams, ACLU of Northern California, 39 Drumm Street, San Francisco, CA 94111. Applicants are encouraged to submit information as early as possible as decisions are made on a rolling basis (see below). Suggested application submission periods:
Spring Semester: July 1-November 30
Summer: September 1- December 31
Fall Semester: January 1-June 30
The ACLU of Northern California is an affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, a national nonprofit organization devoted to the protection of civil liberties. The ACLU uses a combination of litigation, negotiation, lobbying and grassroots organizing to achieve its goals. Legal work is done by the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, Inc. (ACLU-NC). All legal interns work with the ACLU Foundation.
American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project
Cecillia D. Wang
Senior Staff Attorney
ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
tel: (415) 343-0775
fax: (415) 395-0950
Email: cwang@aclu.org
http: http://aclu.org/immigrants/gen/11663res20040806.html
The Immigrants’ Rights Project is a national project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation with offices in New York and California. Using targeted impact litigation, advocacy and public outreach, the Project carries on the ACLU’s historic commitment to protecting the civil rights and civil liberties of immigrants. In federal district and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court, the Project conducts the nation’s largest impact litigation program dedicated to defending and expanding the rights of immigrants, enforcing the guarantees of the Constitution, and achieving equal justice under the law. The Project has focused on challenging laws that deny immigrants access to the judicial system, impose indefinite and mandatory detention, and constitute discrimination on the basis of alienage by governmental and private entities. In addition, the Project has been challenging post-9/11 practices, including litigation against Secretary Rumsfeld and military commanders for torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, FOIA litigation to disclose government documents about such torture, suits challenging selective enforcement and other forms of discrimination, and the use of "enemy combatant" and "material witness" designations to impose detention without trial.
The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project has externships available during the school year for applicants who will have completed at least one year of law school before beginning the externship. Applicants must be committed to civil liberties and immigrants’ rights and have an interest in working toward racial and social justice. In addition, applicants should have strong writing and research skills, be proficient in word processing and Windows software, and be familiar with LEXIS-NEXIS and Westlaw.
Asian Law Caucus
Angela F. Chan, Staff Attorney
Asian Law Caucus
939 Market Street, Suite 201
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel: 415.848.7719
Fax: 415.896.1702
Email: angelac@asianlawcaucus.org
http: www.asianlawcaucus.org
The Asian Law Caucus is the nation's oldest legal and civil rights organization serving low-income Asian Pacific American communities. Founded in 1972, the Caucus strives to defend and empower the APA community through a three-pronged strategy of community education and organizing, provision of direct legal services, policy advocacy and strategic impact litigation.
Employment & Labor Projects: This Project focuses on defending the rights of some of the most exploited members of the work force: low-wage immigrant workers. The Nail Salon Project confronts health and safety hazards in sweatshops by providing greatly needed legal and non-legal services, including community education, legal representation, impact litigation, and policy advocacy. Our employment project also challenges workplace discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, and religion in a post-9/11 context.
Immigrants’ Rights: Our work focuses on litigation, legal services, and organizing/outreach focusing on undocumented communities in the Bay Area around detention; deportation; constitutional and due process claims, including supporting community mobilization and education regarding comprehensive immigration reform.
Housing: The Housing Advocacy Project addresses the lack of affordable housing in the Bay Area. The project provides legal assistance to non-English speaking API tenants and seniors facing homelessness, as well as advocate for policies that preserve low-income housing and neighborhood diversity.
Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Profiling: Our work includes policy and potential litigation around individuals who were denied consumer services after being mistakenly linked to a terrorist watch list and individuals who face discriminatory searches and detentions after returning to the United States from travels abroad
Language Rights: We provide services and engage in advocacy to promote the rights of immigrants who speak limited or no English and experience unequal access to government services.
Juvenile Justice: This Project seeks to disrupt the school the prison pipeline by working both in the juvenile justice system and in the education system. First, the Project provides direct legal services and community education to immigrant families with youth caught in the juvenile justice system to breakdown language and cultural barriers faced by these families. Second, the Project provides advocacy and legal assistance to families who have children attending K-12 schools who are the victims of harassment and violence in those schools.
Clerkships at the Caucus: Semester law clerks must be available at least 15 hours per week. Assignments include meeting with clients to draft declarations, researching and drafting court filings such as briefs and motions, attending hearings, creating community education brochures, and drafting letters in support of or opposing pending bills in Sacramento and Washington.
How to Apply: E-mail, fax, or mail a brief letter of interest, resume, writing sample, and 2-3 references to Sin Yen Ling, Staff Attorney.
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (APILO)
Managing Attorney
1212 Boradway, Suite 400
Oakand, CA 94612
Tel. (510) 251-2846
Email: info@apilegaloutreach.org
http: www.apilegaloutreach.org/
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (formerly Nihonmachi Legal Outreach), is a community-based, social justice organization serving the Asian and Pacific Islander communities of the Greater Bay Area. With a staff of 20 in offices in San Francisco and Oakland, we provide legal, social, and educational services in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
Founded in 1975, our mission is to promote culturally and linguistically appropriate services for the most marginalized segments of the API community. Our work is currently focused in the areas domestic violence, violence against women, immigration and immigrant rights, senior law and elder abuse, human trafficking, public benefits, and social justice issues. In the past few years, we have also helped to organize around the campaign to free political prisoner Eddy Zheng, filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Asian American community in the marriage equality cases, and spoken out against the death penalty.
Externs work hand-in-hand with staff attorneys to assess and take on the representation of survivors of domestic violence, elder abuse, and human trafficking or persons seeking immigration assistance including deportation defense. If certified, externs will be encouraged to make court appearances including hearings for restraining orders and appearances in public benefits or immigration matters.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to Law Clerk Hiring Committee, API Legal Outreach, 1188 Franklin Street, #202, San Francisco, CA 94109 or e-mail info@apilegaloutreach.org. Externs may request placement in either our San Francisco or Oakland offices. Applicants with bilingual capacities are preferred.
Bay Area Rapid Transit - Office of General Counsel
Esther Low
Attorney
300 Lakeside Drive
P.O. Box 12688
Oakland, CA 94604-2688
Tel. (510) 464-6016
Fax (510) 464-6049
Email: elow@bart.gov
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Berkeley City Attorney
Zach Cowan
Assistant City Attorney
2180 Milvia Street, 4th Fl
Berkeley, CA 94704
Tel. (510) 981-6950
Fax (510)
Email: zcowan@ci.berkeley.ca.us
http: www.ci.berkeley.ca.us
The Berkeley City Attorney’s office is an eight-attorney office that represents the City in all civil matters. It also represents the People in prosecuting infraction violations of City ordinances. Each attorney has specific subject matter responsibility and expertise and client departments, and is responsible for both advice and litigation on his or her areas of expertise and litigation on behalf of his or her client departments.
The office is involved in the full range of civil matters, including public liability, civil rights claims, labor relations, public health (Berkeley is one of two cities in the state with its own health department), hazardous materials regulation and remediation, housing, redevelopment, land use, taxation, and transactional matters. In addition, the office is frequently presented with First Amendment issues.
The office usually has a complement of two law clerks, who may be either post graduate, post-bar or second- or third-year law students. Clerks generally work on specific legal research projects assigned by individual attorneys on an as-needed basis. The key qualities we look for in clerks are efficiency, excellent research and writing skills, ability to benefit from constructive criticism and a sense of humor.
To apply please send a resume and writing sample to Zach Cowan, Assistant City Attorney.
Berkeley Dispute Resolution Service
1968 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
Tel: (510) 548-BDRS (2377)
Email: info@bdrs.org
http: www.bdrs.org
California
Office of the Attorney General
In California, the Office of Attorney General was created in 1850 to contend with what was considered at the time an unstructured, inadequate and inconsistent system of law enforcement.
Since its establishment, the Office of the Attorney General has been molded and changed by three distinct forces: First, the California Constitution and state government codes, which specify the duties and responsibilities of the Attorney General; Second, legislative decree altering the duties of the Attorney General in response to specific state needs; and Third, the personalities and ambitions of those who have served as Attorney General.
Of all in state government, the Office of the Attorney General has probably changed the most dramatically in its more than 150-year history. Its development essentially mirrors California's history and the development of the state itself.
The Office of Attorney General in its present form is radically different from the office created by California's founders. Like the Constitution, the office has evolved to serve changing state needs. "I wish to see a good Constitution formed," declared C. T. Botts at California's first Constitutional Convention, "...but it will take time to make it. It is true that houses were built in a single night in San Francisco. It is a go-ahead place. I fear if this Constitution is built in the same way, it will bear about the same relation to an enduring political structure, that a shanty in San Francisco bore to a great monument of architectural skill."
Gradually, through the protection of state lands and resources, through monitoring corporate practices, by asserting the rights of the people against discrimination, and by assuming leadership as the state's central law enforcement authority, the Attorney General has grown to play a critical and, like the Constitution, an enduring role in the life of California.
-Antitrust Division
455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 77000
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 703-5500
-Correctional Law Division
Tim McDonough
Deputy Attorney General
455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000
San Francisco, CA 94102-7004
Tel. (415) 703-5606
Fax (415) 703-5843
Email: tim.mcdonough@doj.ca.gov
-Criminal Division
50 Fremont Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 356-6063
-Environment, Land Law, and Natural Resources
Joel Jacobs/Megan Acevedo
1515 Clay Street, 20th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel. (510) 622-2100
Email: joel.jacobs@doj.ca.gov
-Health, Education & Welfare
50 Fremont Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 356-6396
Fax (415)
-Office of the Public Defender
221 Main Street, Suite 1000
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 904-5600
California State Bar Court
Judge Ronald Stovitz
180 Howard Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 538-2050
Fax (415) 538-2040
Email: judge.ronald.stovitz@calvar.ca.gov
http: http://calbar.ca.gov/state/calbar/sbc_generic.jsp?cid=13469
California is the only state in the nation with independent professional judges dedicated to ruling on attorney discipline cases.
The State Bar of California investigates complaints of attorney misconduct. If the State Bar determines that an attorney's actions involve probable misconduct, formal charges are filed with the State Bar Court by the bar's prosecutors (Office of Chief Trial Counsel).
The independent State Bar Court hears the charges and has the power to recommend that the California Supreme Court suspend or disbar attorneys found to have committed acts of professional misconduct or convicted of serious crimes.
Also, it can temporarily remove lawyers from the practice of law when they are deemed to pose a substantial threat of harm to clients or the public.
Lawyers may seek review of State Bar Court decisions in the California Supreme Court.
The State Bar Court conducts hearings and makes decisions and formal recommendations on disciplinary matters.
Since 1989, the court has used full-time judges appointed by the California Supreme Court, legislature and governor. The court is divided into two departments — a Hearing Department and a Review Department, headed by a presiding judge.
California Appellate Project
Michael Lasher
Supervising Attorney
101 2nd Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 495-0500
Fax (415) 495-5616
Email: internships@capsf.org
http: www.capsf.org
The California Appellate Project (CAP) is a defender office whose mission is to implement the constitutional right to counsel for indigent defendants in death penalty appellate and habeas corpus proceedings. CAP was established in San Francisco in 1983 by the State Bar of California, at the request of the California Supreme Court, to assist the Court in meeting the urgent need for competent counsel in cases in which a judgment of death has been pronounced.
Each semester the attorneys at CAP are assisted in our work by law students who work at CAP as clinical externs for course credit, as previously arranged between the law student and the student’s school. We also have a limited number of law student volunteers and part-time work study students during the school year.
Law students play a valuable and integral role at CAP, working directly with CAP attorneys, mitigation specialists and investigators on all aspects of capital post-conviction litigation. Students’ work may include research and writing on various topics, assistance in outlining or drafting legal pleadings, preparation of basic habeas documents, and investigation of issues common to many cases. Law students’ specific assignments are determined by the case needs of their litigation team.
Law students participate in regular in-house training sessions and litigation meetings. Students have access while at CAP to an array of death penalty resource and training materials produced by CAP and other national death penalty litigators. Students are supervised by our staff attorneys and each student works with a small team of lawyers involved in active litigation for postconviction defense of capital cases.
For information on these opportunities, please email: internships@capsf.org
CaliforniaIndian Legal Serives
405 14th Street, Suite 300
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: (510) 835-0284
Toll Free: 1-800-829-0284
Fax: (510) 835-8045
Email:
http: www.calindian.org
California Indian Legal Services (CILS) is the first Indian-controlled law firm organized to provide specialized legal representation to Indians and Indian tribes. CILS provides free or low-cost representation on those matters that fall within the priorities (see below) set by our Board of Trustees.
Created by California Indian leaders and public interest attorneys, CILS has been one of the preeminent advocates for the rights of Native Americans and Indian Tribes for over thirty years.
CILS maintains six offices, five throughout California and one in Washington D.C. CILS is supported by grants and contracts from a majority of California's 109 federally recognized Indian Tribes, the Federal Legal Services Corporation, the State Bar of California, private foundations, and individual and corporate contributors. Click here to download a copy of our brochure (opens new window), which fully explains our organization and the services we provide.
Which cases does CILS handle?
The following priorities were established by the CILS Board of Trustees to direct the staff in its allocation of resources. The CILS Board reviews these priorities annually. Please feel free to contact them with any suggestions or comments you may have regarding these priorities.
- Preserve and enhance the Indian land base in California;
- Secure self-determination and Indian control of reservations and reservation programs;
- Secure restoration and improvement of services which federal agencies have provided to Indians outside of California, but which those agencies have either failed to provide or have provided on a severely limited basis to California Indians;
- Secure bureaucratic accountability for governmental policies, actions, or omissions which significantly and adversely affect California Indians;
- Secure and protect the full civil rights of California Indians;
- Protect and encourage the growth of Indian heritage.
California Lawyers for the Arts
Jill Roisen
Supervising Attorney
Fort Mason Center
Building C, Room 255
San Francisco, CA 94123
Tel. (415) 775-7200 Ext. 102
Fax (415) 775-1143
Email: aams@calawyersforthearts.org
http: www.calawyersforthearts.org
CLA has two unique programs that require law student interns: the Lawyer Referral Service (LRS) and Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services (AAMS). We will be accepting several interns for each program. Here is a brief description of both services:
1) Lawyer Referral Service:
Time Commitment: Preferably 20+ hours over at least 3 days per week.
Program Description: LRS refers clients to members of our attorney panel for consultation on a wide variety of art-related matters such as copyright and trademark protection, contract review and negotiation, business partnerships and nonprofit incorporation.
Duties: Interns will interview clients and perform case intake. Interns will draft brief legal memorandum to attorneys presenting the legal issues and relevant facts. Interns will then locate appropriate attorneys for clients.
Supervision: Interns will be supervised directly by Katrin Randall, the Legal Services and Education Coordinator. As interns become more comfortable with the service, they will be able to "run the desk" on their own.
Benefits to intern: Interns will spend most of their time on the phone with clients and attorneys. Interns will learn to issue spot, interview clients and communicate legal issues clearly and succinctly to attorneys. The program will help law students learn about the legal issues facing artists, the "jargon" of art and entertainment law, and about the professionals performing services for artists in the Bay Area. Interns will gain practical knowledge about how legal disputes and issues are handled in a real world setting. The internship is also an invaluable networking opportunity in a profession that is extremely relationship driven.
2) Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services:
Time Commitment: Preferably 20+ hours over at least 3 days per week.
Program Description: Established as a national model program in 1980, AAMS provides efficient, economical and confidential alternatives to litigation, including mediation, arbitration, meeting facilitation and phone conciliation.
Duties: Interns will interview clients and opposing parties and, after training, will begin handling cases on their own from beginning to end. Interns will help clients form negotiating strategies, will negotiate with opposing parties to "get them to the table," locate mediators, facilitators or arbitrators and sit-in on mediations and other proceedings.
Supervision: Interns will be supervised directly by Jill Roisen, the Director of AAMS. After training, interns will be assigned cases to manage and follow from beginning to end.
Benefits to interns: Interns will again spend most of their time on the phone with clients, attorneys and other professionals. Interns will build long-term relationships with clients in an emotionally charged and satisfying setting. Interns will learn negotiating skills, and will learn how legal disputes are settled outside of court. Interns will learn about the issues facing artists and arts organizations and about the professionals in the Bay Area that help settle these issues. Interns will also gain practical knowledge regarding the costs of litigation (emotional and financial) and the methods by which parties can leverage monetary and non-monetary factors in ways that lead to settlement.
LRS and AAMS work together on many cases. Interns will receive training in both programs so that they understand how better to work together. AAMS and LRS interns will regularly consult together and with their supervisors in order to better serve clients.
California Lawyers for the Arts is a relaxed, fun place to work and it gives law students a chance to use their talents to help an underserved, underfunded and often legally unsophisticated population. Recent years in the Bay Area have been tough on the arts and entertainment community. More than ever, artists and arts organizations need the help of bright, motivated advocates.
For more information regarding the Lawyer Referral Service, students may contact Amy Kazuika, Legal Services and Education Director at (415) 775-7200 ext 109. For information regarding Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services, students may contact Jill Roisen, Director of AAMS, at (415) 775-7200 ext 102. Students may also visit our website at www.calawyersforthearts.org.
California Prison Focus
Charles Carbone
Supervising Attorney
2940 16th Street, Suite B-5
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. (415) 252-9211
Fax (415) 252-9311
Email: charleseye@hotmail.com
http: www.prisons.org
California Public Utilities Commission
Thereso Cho
Supervising Attorney
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 703-2682
Fax (415) 703-3933
Email: tcx@cpuc.ca.gov
http: www.cpuc.ca.gov
California Rural Legal Assistance
Pat Beardsley
Supervising Attorney
631 Howard Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105-3907
Tel. (415) 777-2752
Fax (415) 542-2752
Email:
http: www.crla.org
Catholic Legal Immigration Network
Sarah Bronstein
564 Market St., Ste 416
San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel: (415) 394-8073
Fax (415) 394-8696
Email: sbronstein@cliniclegal.org
http: www.cliniclegal.org/
Center for Biological Diversity
Kelli Shields
1095 Market Street, Suite 511
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. (415) 436.9682 x300
Fax (415) 436-9683
Email: kshields@biologicaldiversity.org
The Center is dedicated to providing the highest quality legal services available. We litigate under laws such as the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, and the National Forest Management Act as well as the California Environmental Quality Act and other state laws in an effort to eliminate threats to biological diversity. We seek creative, motivated, dedicated, and good-humored law students to join us in these efforts. A background in ecology and/or environmental policy is preferred.
The Center offers a flexible work environment with excellent mentoring opportunities. Specific work projects may include drafting complaints to protect species; researching various aspects of civil procedure and environmental law for inclusion in summary judgment motions; researching the status of various species; and preparing administrative petitions to list imperiled species as endangered or threatened.
Center for Food Safety
West Coast Office
2601 Mission Street, Suite 803
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel: (415) 826-2770
Fax: (415) 826-0507
Email:
http: www.centerforfoodsafety.org
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy membership organization established in 1997 by its sister organization, International Center for Technology Assessment, for the purpose of challenging harmful food production technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives. CFS combines multiple tools and strategies in pursuing its goals, including litigation and legal petitions for rulemaking, legal support for various sustainable agriculture and food safety constituencies, as well as public education, grassroots organizing and media outreach.
Center for Justice & Accountability
Shawn Roberts
870 Market Street, Suite 688
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 544-0444
Fax (415) 544-0456
Email.
http: http://www.cja.org/
CJA is the leading non-governmental organization which brings cases against individual human rights abusers in the United States and Spain using principles of universal jurisdiction (UJ).
In the United States, CJA brings civil lawsuits under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) against human rights violators who live in the U.S.
Centro Legal de la Raza
Timothy Griffiths
2501 International Blvd
Oakland, CA 94601
Tel. (510) 437-1554
Fax (510) 437-9164
Email: info@centrolegal.org
http: www.centrolegal.org
What does el Centro Legal de la Raza do?
Founded by four Boalt Hall La Raza Law Student Association members in 1969, el Centro Legal de la Raza is dedicated to providing culturally and linquistically competent legal aid to the low-income, predominantly Spanish-speaking residents of Oakland and its environs. Our legal services range everywhere from legal consultations to litigation and include many brief services and administrative representation. Presently we specialize in the following areas of law: tenants' rights, workers' rights, immigration, consumer protection and workers' compensation.
What does el Centro Legal de la Raza expect from externs?
Externs at el Centro Legal de la Raza are typically assigned to two subject areas (immigration, tenants' rights, workers' rights or consumer protection) based on the extern's interests and el Centro's needs at the time. For each area, the extern is expected to participate in the corresponding clinic, to carry a small caseload, and to take on legal research projects. In a typical semester, therefore, most externs can expect extensive interaction with clients, the chance to represent clients (under supervision) in at least one administrative hearing and chance to research, write and perfect at least one legal memo or brief.
Requirements: Fluency or near fluency in English and Spanish.
Applying: Send a cover letter and resume to Timothy Griffiths, Legal
Services Director, el Centro Legal de la Raza, 2501 International Blvd.,
Oakland, CA 94601 or by email to timothygriffiths@centrolegal.org
Child Care Law Center
Eve Hershkopf
Child Care Law Center
221 Pine St., 3rd Floor
San Francisco, California 94104
Tel. (415) 394-7144
Fax (415) 394-7140
email: info@childcarelaw.org
Legal services
Anyone with a legal question or question about laws relating to child care may call our Information and Referral Line at (415) 394-7144 between 12 and 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Mondays and Thursdays to speak with a staff attorney or a law student working under the supervision of an attorney. Callers can receive information on a wide variety of topics, including the rights to child care of parents in welfare-to-work programs, inclusion of children with disabilities and special health care needs in child care, child care subsidies, and rights and responsibilities of child care providers (including providers' rights vis-à-vis landlords).
CCLC is committed to providing the broadest possible language access. We have Spanish and Mandarin speakers on-site. In addition, CCLC subscribes to the Language Line, which provides specially trained interpreters for 155 languages, including Arabic, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, and Tagalog.
Our Information and Referral Line helps over 800 people each year. Examples of calls include: a low- income family child care provider in California threatened with eviction for providing child care services in her rented home; a mother leaving public assistance for work at a minimum wage job who needs subsidized child care; a parent whose child has been turned away from a child care center because he needs assistance with toileting due to a disability. In each instance, the Child Care Law Center was able to inform the caller of his or her legal rights and options to bring about a successful resolution to the problem.
CCLC's ability to provide legal information specific to your situation depends on the type of issue you are facing, the support you need, and other factors.
Education
The Child Care Law Center’s inexpensive publications help parents and providers understand critical legal issues in child care. Topics covered in our publications range from helping parents understand how to write a contract with their child care provider; to educating the public on why child care is critical to successful welfare reform; to helping family child care providers navigate local land use regulations.
Trainings
Our trainings on implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act in the child care setting have taught thousands of child care providers how to include children with disabilities in their programs. Training is also available on:
- Child care provider rights and responsibilities
- Provider liability and insurance issues
- Contracts for parents
- Contracts for providers
- Family child care and zoning
- Collecting fees
- Legal issues for community-based resource and referral agencies
CCLC sponsored the first training symposium of local government child care coordinators in California and has delivered hundreds of presentations, conference workshops, and seminars to child care providers, program directors, and resource & referral personnel on a full range of legal issues. If you would like more information about setting up training please contact us at info@childcarelaw.org.
Public Policy and Advocacy
CCLC plays a key role in developing and advocating for a broad vision of early care and education and positive systemic change. A majority of our work is in California, but we work on selected issue in other states as well. We analyze legislation and state budget actions, help policymakers understand the complex and interconnected child care and development issues they address, comment on and participate in the creation of regulations, and testify before the Legislature.
CCLC represents the interests of California’s lowest income and most vulnerable families in the development of state policy, law and budget priorities that reflect a long-term vision of a comprehensive and fair child care system that meets the needs of families and children who face multiple barriers to affordable, high quality child care.
Communities for a Better Environment
1440 Broadway, Suite 701
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel. (510) 302-0430
Fax (510) 302-0437
Email:
http: www.cbecal.org
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is a social justice organization with a focus on environmental health and justice. We organize in working class communities of color because those communities suffer the most from environmental pollution and toxics. CBE works in urban communities in Northern and Southern California among low-income African Americans, Latinos and other nationalities who are bombarded by pollution from freeways, power plants, oil refineries, seaports, airports, and chemical manufacturers. As a result, the people – who have no choice but to live in these areas -- suffer from very high rates of asthma and respiratory illnesses, heart problems, cancer, low birthrate, and miscarriages. These problems are made worse by higher than average rates of poverty, inadequate housing, poor schools, and inadequate health care and social services. Children are the most vulnerable victims of these problems.
CBE works in these communities because they are also centers of resistance to environmental racism. We provide community residents who want to challenge corporate polluters with organizing help, scientific and policy research, and legal assistance. The focus of our work is to help community members identify their own problems, and define their own campaigns and solutions. We believe in building community power to help them achieve the basic human right to clean air, clean water, and clean land and public space. In nearly thirty years of existence, CBE and its community members, including young people, have achieved some of the most important environmental policies in the nation – including strong regulations of power plant and oil refinery emissions. Our experience proves that an organized community can truly move mountains.
Contra Costa County Public Defender
3811 Bissell Ave.
Richmond, Ca. 94805
Tel. (510) 412-4900
Fax (510) 412-4901
610 Court Street
Martinez, CA 94553
Tel. (925) 646-1740
Fax (925) 647-1747
Persons charged in criminal and certain other special proceedings face the potential loss of significant liberty. Recognizing this, the founders of our country included in the Bill of Rights the Sixth Amendment which provides for the right to a lawyer for a person accused of a crime. However, it was not until 1963 that the United States Supreme Court ruled, in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) 372 U.S. 335, that the Constitution not only mandates the right to counsel for the accused, it also mandates that if a person cannot afford an attorney, the government must provide one.
Two primary rationales under girded the Supreme Court's Gideon decision: (1) that the due process right to be heard when accused, and the right to confront the state's evidence or produce evidence in court was hollow unless a lawyer could assist the accused, and (2) that such legal expertise existed on the side of the state in the form of paid full-time lawyer/prosecutors, so fairness demanded that the accused have the same type of professional assistance when being prosecuted by the state.
California law requires that each county provide this constitutionally mandated representation. Pursuant to Government Code Section 27706, most counties in California have established Public Defender Offices to comply with this mandate. Economies of scale in making large numbers of court appearances and the specialization in criminal law by public defenders result in cost saving advantages and expertise for the clients when compared to a system of appointed private attorneys drawn from throughout the legal community.
What We Do
The Office of Public Defender provides legal representation for persons accused of crimes in the unified courts in Contra Costa County when the accused is financially unable to retain private counsel. Attorneys and staff in the Department also provide representation in Juvenile Court in delinquency matters.
Who We Represent
We represent adults in criminal cases who cannot afford to retain an attorney. We also represent all juveniles in dependency cases. At the initial interview we obtain financial information regarding employment, assets (such as housing equity), money owed to creditors, family size and other sources of income. The nature and severity of the charges, and the custodial status of the accused, are also considered when determining whether a person can afford to retain counsel.
We do not represent persons in traffic, civil and family law cases, unless they are referred for possible contempt of court charges.
Prospective clients of our Department should be aware that the court will assess attorney's fees at the end of the case. The fees are collected by the county's Cost Recovery Department, not by the Office of the Public Defender. If the fees are not paid, the Cost Recovery Department may seek a civil judgment for the fees. Clients are entitled to ask for a hearing on their ability to pay when the court orders fees. In every case a fee of at least two hundred dollars ($200) is assessed.
How We Do It
An attorney will appear with the client at the next court date to enter a plea of not guilty and to schedule future court dates. The case will then be assigned to an attorney based upon the nature of the charges, custodial status of the client and the procedures in the local court. The assigned attorney will be responsible for the client's case(s) from that time forward. (Sometimes another attorney may appear in court with the client if the assigned attorney is unavailable; however the assigned attorney makes all of the legal decisions about the case.)
The Contra Costa County Public Defender's Office staff at every level is dedicated to only one purpose: to provide excellent legal services to our clients. Working together as a team with a positive attorney-client relationship we can assure the most effective representation.
Initial Contacts
At the first court appearance (arraignment) when given a copy of the charges--or when questioned in police custody before arrest or charges are brought--a person may request representation by an attorney.
At the arraignment or first appearance persons out of custody will be referred to our office and given a date to return to court with an attorney. Persons in custody will be given a court date and will be visited at the jail by staff from the Department before the next court date.
During the initial client interview, a paralegal, law clerk or attorney will determine financial eligibility and will discuss confidentially the client's background, explain the overall procedure and discuss the specifics of the client's case. For logistical reasons as well as because of the need to bring to bear specialized knowledge of various areas of law, the interviewing attorney, and the attorney at the next court date will rarely be the attorney who is assigned to the case.
Disability Rights Advocates
Melissa Kasnitz
2001 Center Street, 4th Floor
Berkeley, CA 94704
Tel. (510) 665-8644
Fax (510) 665-8511
Email: mkasnitz@dralegal.org
http: www.dralegal.org
DRA is a non-profit legal center who's mission is to ensure dignity, equality, and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities throughout the United States and worldwide.
DRA's national advocacy work includes high-impact class action litigation on behalf of people with all types of disabilities, including mobility, hearing, vision, learning and psychological disabilities. Through negotiation and litigation, DRA has made thousands of facilities throughout the country accessible and has enforced access rights for millions of people with disabilities in many key areas of life, including access to technology, education, employment, transportation and health care. DRA also engages in non-litigation advocacy throughout the country, including research and education projects focused on opening up access to schools, the professions and health care. DRA publishes a periodic statistical report, Disability Watch that analyzes the many barriers and emerging issues facing people with disabilities. DRA also publishes various "Know Your Rights" handbooks designed to educate and assist people with disabilities in knowing and enforcing their civil rights.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, Inc.
Linda Kilb
Director, California Legal Services Trust Fund Support Center Program
2212 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Tel. (510) 644-2555
Fax (510) 841-8645
Emial: info@dredf.org
lkilb@dredf.org
http: www.dredf.org
The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF) located in Berkeley, California, offers field placement internships and possible summer positions for Boalt law students. Academic term internships generally involve a commitment of 8 to 16 hours per week. Summer internships generally involve a 40-hour per week commitment for at least 5 weeks, and preferably 8-10 weeks. Individuals with disabilities, minority, and women candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
Interns work on a variety of litigation projects under the supervision of DREDF attorneys, including disability rights class-action and individual cases in the areas of employment, access to government programs and activities, architectural access, housing, and educational entitlements of children with disabilities. Projects include researching legal issues, drafting documents for discovery (e.g. interrogatories, requests for admissions, and requests for production of documents), and drafting legal motions and pleadings. Interns will have direct contact with clients, and the opportunity to observe or participate in meetings, depositions, and court proceedings related to litigation on which they are working.
DREDF attorneys regularly receive requests from lawyers around the country who are seeking advice and assistance on cutting-edge disability rights issues. Interns are often included in the telephone calls and strategy sessions responsive to these requests. With the close supervision of attorneys, interns may also respond to telephone inquiries about disability discrimination or special education issues that callers with disabilities or parents of children with disabilities are facing, and may provide informal advocacy on clients’ behalf. Interns are also invited and encouraged to join DREDF staff in attending
disability community events and meetings that occur during their period of internship.
Interested candidates may contact: Law Student Internships, DREDF, 2212 Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710; telephone (510) 644-2555 (voice or TDD); facsimile (510) 841-8645; e-mail hmin@dredf.org.
Drug Policy Alliance
Daniel Abrahamson, Esq.
Director of Legal Affairs;
Theshia Naidoo, Esq.
Staff Attorney
OFFICE OF LEGAL AFFAIRS
819 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94710
Tel.510) 229-5211
Fax (510) 295-2810
Email: dabrahamson@drugpolicy.org
http: www.drugpolicy.org
Summer and Semester Internship/Externship
The Drug Policy Alliance is the nation's leading organization devoted to minimizing the harms associated with both drug misuse and the laws and policies that derive from the war on drugs. The Alliance's Office of Legal Affairs, based in Berkeley, California, pursues these goals nationwide through impact litigation; legislative drafting for local and state bodies, and advocacy on behalf of public health interventions which address the problems associated with substance abuse at the individual, family and community levels.
The Office of Legal Affairs is looking for law students (1L, 2L, or 3Ls) to commit to working at least eight hours a week during the spring or fall semesters or at least 20 hours per week (usually for 10 weeks) during the summer. Coursework in constitutional and criminal law is helpful but not required.
The Office of Legal Affairs works on a variety of issues, including access to substance abuse treatment, including narcotic replacement therapies; provision of harm reduction services, including access to sterile syringes and overdose prevention programs; reduction of drug testing and other pervasive surveillance technologies; eligibility for public benefits for individuals with drug problems or prior drug convictions; lawful use and supply of medical marijuana and sacramental cannabis; adequate treatment of severe and chronic pain; combating the criminalization of pregnant substance abusers; reforming sentencing laws and reducing incarcerated populations, including advocating for treatment instead of incarceration; and addressing racial disparities in drug laws and sentencing.
Students would work as part of a multi-disciplinary team helping craft practical policy alternatives to the war on drugs. Intern projects might include: drafting and editing public education and litigation materials; developing and collecting research to support ongoing litigation; drafting amicus briefs; writing press releases and assisting in media outreach efforts; and creating and maintaining databases in public education and litigation projects.
Resume, cover letter, list of references (2-3), and short writing sample should be sent to (emails preferred): Daniel Robelo, Research Assistant, drobelo@drugpolicy.org.
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund International Program
Rosaleen O'Gara
Research Associate - International Program
426 Seventeenth St., 6th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel. (510) 550-6700
Fax
Email: eajusintlearthjustice.org@earthjustice.org
http: www.earthjustice.org
Earthjustice's International Program uses the power of the law to protect the environment and human health worldwide. We represent public interest and community groups in international tribunals and domestic courts to hold corporations and governments responsible for environmental harm, prevent trade rules from undermining public health and environmental protections, and create strong tools for citizens to defend the right to a healthy environment.
International Program externs perform a wide range of activities, including extensive research and writing on a variety of issues including trade and environment, human rights and environment, and/or international environmental law. Externs will become familiar with legal practice before one or more domestic and/or international tribunals.
In general, the student becomes a participant in the process of researching, preparing, investigating and generally supporting our cases and projects. Virtually all externs undertake legal research, write memoranda, and help evaluate factual issues. We rely heavily on externs for these tasks, placing a premium on careful, accurate, and self-directed work. Each student is responsible for monitoring her/his own workload, and each staff attorney is responsible for supervising the work done on her/his cases and providing feedback to students.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jason Schultz
Matt Zimmerman
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco CA 94110-1914
Tel. (415) 436 9333
Fax: (415) 436 9993
Email: jason@eff.org
mattz@eff.org
http: www.eff.org/
EFF, a nonprofit legal foundation dedicated to preserving civil liberties online, invites outstanding law students to apply for internship positions at our high-energy office in San Francisco, where you can work with EFF's legal team to litigate cutting-edge issues surrounding new technologies.
Job Description
Interns assist in all aspects of litigation, including legal research, factual investigation, and drafting of memoranda and briefs, while also helping with policy research, client counseling, and the development of public education materials. EFF's docket ranges across the technological and legal landscape, from online fair use of copyrighted materials to electronic voting to the PATRIOT Act; take a look at http://www.eff.org/legal/victories/ or http://www.eff.org/legal/active_legal.html for details about our work preserving constitutional values in the digital world.
Summer internships are full-time, 40 hours per week minimum, and last 10-14 weeks. School-year internships are part-time, 16 hours per week minimum, and last 10-12 weeks. Internships are available at our offices in San Francisco for all legal issues and in Washington, D.C. for work with our FLAG project focusing on FOIA requests and litigation. We do not offer remote internships. Internships are generally unpaid; therefore arrangements should be made with the student's law school for work/study stipends. In addition, some small stipends for summer internships may be available on the basis of need through the generous sponsorship of Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder LLP.
Qualifications
Law students of all levels are encouraged to apply, including students enrolled in non-US schools. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and enthusiasm for civil liberties or technology-related legal issues, along with excellent research and writing skills and the initiative and energy to see projects to completion in a fast-moving environment. (Being a bit of a geek may help, but isn't required!)
Application
Who needs paper? Just send an email to legalinterns@eff.org with the subject line "Intern Applicant: [Your Name]." We'd like a single email with your resume and writing sample attached, as .doc, .pdf, .rtf or .txt files; no WordPerfect, please. The body of the email should contain your "cover letter," explaining why you want to work with EFF and why we should want to work with you, followed by three references. Note that writing samples on civil liberties and/or intellectual property issues are highly preferred.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Dianna Frappier
344 – 40th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
Tel. (510) 428-3939
Fax (510) 428-3940
Email:
http: www.ellabakercenter.org
Environmental Defense Fund
Oakland Office
Deme Sakkis
5655 College Avenue, Suite 304
Oakland, CA 94618
Tel. (510) 658-8008
Fax (510) 658-0630
Email:
http: www.environmentaldefense.org
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Linda Ordonio-Dixon
350 Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94105-1673
Tel. (415) 356-5046
Email: lodixon@eeoc.gov
http:
Equality California
2370 Market Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94114
Tel: (415) 581-0005
Fax: (415) 581-0805
Email:
http: www.eqca.org
Equality California is California’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization. EQCA leads efforts for LGBT civil rights at the state level through an array of strategies including sponsoring legislation and leading efforts to ensure their passage, lobbying legislators and other government officials, building coalitions, and empowering other organizations and individuals to engage in the political process. EQCA, working in partnership with California’s LGBT Legislative Caucus, has strategically moved California from a state with extremely limited rights for LGBT individuals to the state with the most comprehensive LGBT civil rights protections in the nation.
Equal Rights Advocates
Irma Herrera
1663 Mission Street, Suite 250
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. (415) 621-0672
Fax (415) 621-6744
Email: iherrera@equalrights.org
http: www.equalrights.org
Equal Rights Advocates is a non-profit civil and human rights legal organization whose mission is to protect and secure equal rights and economic opportunities for women and girls through litigation and advocacy. Since its inception in 1974 as a teaching law firm focused on sex-based discrimination, ERA has used class actions and impact litigation to obtain relief that will benefit large groups of women. ERA is a leader in advocacy on issues involving its expertise in employment discrimination, sexual harassment, FMLA and Title IX. ERA especially seeks to serve the needs of women of color, immigrant women, women in non-traditional jobs, undocumented women, and low-income women. Law student interns gain a variety of valuable experience at ERA including staffing our advice and counseling line, assisting with cutting-edge impact litigation, participating in legislative advocacy and presenting workshops for community groups. ERA considers 2Ls and 3Ls for internships during the school year and 3Ls only for summer internships. ERA requires a committment of 18-20 hours during the school year and 10 weeks full time in the summer. ERA seeks applicants with excellent writing & research skills as well as a commitment to public interest law and women’s issues. Coursework or experience in employment/discrimination law is preferred and bilingual ability is a plus (especially Spanish, Cantonese or Mandarin) Visit our website: www.equalrights.org for further information about ERA and the exciting work we are doing.
To apply:
Submit cover letter, resume, one original writing sample (approximately 5-10 pages) and contact information for three references to:
Irma D. Herrera
Executive Director
1663 Mission Street, Suite 250
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-575-0672
e-mail: iherrera@equalrights.org or by fax 415-621-6744
Executive Office of Immigration Review (Immigration Court)
Tara Lundstrom
120 Montgomery Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel. (415) 705-4415
Fax (415) 705-4418
The San Francisco Immigration Court hires volunteer interns during the fall and spring semesters. All law students who are United States citizens are eligible to apply. Prior knowledge of immigration law is helpful, but not necessary; however, strong research and writing skills are required. Those selected as law interns gain an understanding of immigration law and procedure as it relates to removal and deportation issues. They become familiar with the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Code of Federal Regulations, and immigration case law set forth by the Board of Immigration Appeals and the federal courts.
Typical assignments include drafting decisions on applications for asylum, researching and writing memos on whether a particular criminal offense renders a person subject to removal, and drafting decisions on motions to reopen cases in which a final order has been issued. In every assignment, law interns research and apply immigration statutes, regulations, and case law, thus increasing their familiarity with the field of immigration law and allowing them to exercise their research and writing skills.
Fall and spring interns are expected to work 14 hours per week for a minimum of 12 weeks. If you are interested in a volunteer internship at the Immigration Court, send your resume, transcript (official or unofficial), a brief writing sample, and three references, with a cover letter indicating why you are interested to:
Tara Lundstrom, Attorney Advisor, Executive Office for Immigration Review, 120 Montgomery Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94104.
The deadline for receipt of Spring 2008 applications is Monday, October 15, 2007. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Note: All interns at the Court must be United States citizens, enrolled in law school at the time of their application and their internship, and must successfully complete an FBI background check before beginning their internships.
If you have any questions about the Immigration Court or the role of interns here, please contact Tara Lundstrom by phone at 415-705-4415, ext. 268, or by email at Tara.Lundstrom@usdoj.gov.
Federal Public Defender (Oakland)
Colleen Martin
Robin Packel
555 – 12th Street, Suite 650
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel. (510) 637-3500
Fax (510)
The Federal Public Defender is an agency of the federal government set up to provide legal representation for indigent individuals accused of committing federal crimes. Externs in the Oakland office of the Federal Public Defender participate in the representation of defendants at all stages of the federal criminal process. They may draft pre-trial motions, sentencing memoranda and appeals; research and advise the attorneys on a variety of legal issues; assist with trials; and provide advice to people charged with federal petty offenses. Externs also participate in brainstorming sessions and strategy discussions and observe a range of criminal proceedings in federal court. Externs are supervised by the research attorneys and work with all the attorneys in the office. The goal of the externship program is to provide law students with an opportunity for in-depth participation in the representation of federal criminal defendants. The program exposes externs to the range of the practice and to a variety of lawyering styles. By fostering strategic legal thinking and persuasive legal writing, the program aims to prepare externs to be
effective advocates in whatever field they choose to pursue.
The Oakland office of the Federal Public Defender accepts up to two externs each semester. Externs should have completed two years of law school, and ideally they will have completed or be taking the following classes: criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence and constitutional law. Applications are reviewed as they are received. Interested applicants should mail a resume, cover letter and writing sample to Robin Packel, Federal Public Defender, 555 12th Street, Suite 650, Oakland, CA 94607;
alternatively, applicants may fax these materials to (510) 637-3507, attention Robin Packel. For further information, contact Robin Packel or Colleen Martin at (510) 637-3500, send email to robin_packel@fd.org or colleen_martin@fd.org or visit our website: www.ndcalfpd.org.
Federal Public Defender (San Francisco)
Christine Miles
Federal Public Defender
Northern District of California
450 Golden Gate Ave. 19th Floor
Room 19-6884, Box 36106
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 436-7700
Fax (415) 436-7706 (fax)
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 974-2000
Fax (415) 393-1906
Email:
http: www.frbsf.org
First District Appellate Project
Richard Braucher
730 Harrison Street, Suite 201
San Francisco, CA 94107
Tel. (415) 495-3119
Fax (415) 495-0166
Email:
http: www.fdap.org
Habeas Corpus Resource Center
Ms. Margo Hunter
Habeas Corpus Resource Center
Attn: Legal Intern Selection Committee
303 Second Street, Suite 400 South
San Francisco, CA 94107
Tel.
Fax: 415.348.3873
Email: interns@hcrc.ca.gov
http: www.hcrc.ca.gov
HCRC provides exciting opportunities for law students interested in post-conviction capital defense litigation.
HCRC interns and externs are assigned to spend most of their time working on one or two cases. Students are integrated into existing case teams, which consist of lawyers, paralegals, and investigators. Students assist case teams on a variety of projects, including legal and non-legal research as well as factual development and analysis of legal claims. Legal research projects pertain to various capital defense issues. Non-legal research can pertain to almost any other subject matter relevant to a case, such as forensics or psychology. Factual development and analysis involve gathering case-related facts as well as synthesizing and organizing case materials to form a coherent legal picture.
Summer Internships:
HCRC generally hires two to four summer interns. The positions are paid, although students with access to funding (such as public interest fellowships) are encouraged to utilize it as doing so permits us to hire additional students.
The summer training program is designed to educate students about substantive and procedural aspects of capital litigation and to provide them with the theoretical background and practical skills needed to provide meaningful assistance during their summer placements. Topics include a comprehensive overview of pre- and post-judgment capital litigation procedures in California, introductions to mitigation and mental health evidence and the development of social histories, and discussion of principles and strategies for working with documentary evidence and witnesses. Instructors include legal staff members from HCRC, the California Appellate Project, and the Office of the State Public Defender, as well as local appointed capital attorneys. Students, volunteers, investigators, and mitigation specialists working with appointed capital attorneys also attend this program. Additionally, summer interns may attend a tour of San Quentin state prison.
Externships:
Externships are unpaid positions. For students interested in obtaining clinical credits from their law school, HCRC will work with the student and the school in an effort to meet the school’s requirements. Start and end dates for the externship are flexible, as are the number of hours and days worked per week.
Qualifications: HCRC accepts both first- and second-year law students, and no particular prior coursework is required. However, preferred applicants are those who have completed their second year in law school and have knowledge of substantive and procedural legal principles of criminal and constitutional law, California statutory and case law, provisions of the United States and California constitutions, and the rules of evidence and conduct of proceedings in California courts.
Application Process: Applications should include a cover letter, resume, and short writing sample.
Students are encouraged to apply via e-mail to interns@hcrc.ca.gov
If necessary, applications may be submitted by fax or mail to:
Habeas Corpus Resource Center
Attn: Legal Intern Selection Committee
303 Second St., Suite 400 South
San Francisco, CA 94107
Fax: (415) 348-3873
Deadlines: Consideration of applications for summer internships begins in the winter. Interviews are generally held in January and February, and the positions are filled by March.
Externship applications are accepted and considered at any time.
For more information: Please submit questions via e-mail to: interns@hcrc.ca.gov
Haywood Burns Institute
Michael Harris
180 Howard Street, Suite 320
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 321-4100 Ext. 105
Fax (415) 321-4140
Email: mharris@burnsinstitute.org
info@burnsinstitute.org
http: www.burnsinstitute.org
The W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) is a national non-profit organization that works intensively with local jurisdictions to reduce the overrepresentation of youth of color in their juvenile justice systems or DMC. Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC) exists in every state in the nation. DMC occurs when the proportion of youth of color in a certain community is lower than the proportion of youth of color from that community who are held in secure detention.
The BI seeks externs to conduct research on racial disproportionately in juvenile justice systems throughout the nation.
The externs will be asked to:
*Conduct research and analyze data on DMC for youth held in secure detention for every state, and, where applicable counties within the state. Currently, BI has some data available regarding DMC, but we seek to expand and update this resource.
*Conduct research on the publication and application of states' Three Year Plans to confront DMC.
*Conduct research on State Advisory Groups (SAGs). SAGs are governor appointed boards that determine how federal funds are allocated in the state for juvenile justice activities, including DMC.
*Conduct research on ongoing project investigating the history of youth of colors' involvement with the juvenile justice system.
*Conduct other research as necessary.
Homeless Action Center
Berkeley Office:
3126 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Tel: (510) 540-0878
Fax: (510) 540-0403
http://homelessactioncenter.org
Email: reception@homelessactioncenter.org
Oakland Office:
2272 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: (510) 836-3260
Fax: (510) 836-7690
A non-profit organization serving the homeless, disabled, and disadvantaged of Alameda County. Assisting their clients in receiving SSI and SSDI income benefits. And helping clients in connecting with housing, legal, and healthcare programs and services within the community, state, and national social security, and public health and welfare infrastructure.
Homeless Advocacy Project Volunteer Legal Services Program
Teresa Friend
Bar Association of SF
1360 Mission Street, Suite 201
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. (415) 575-3130 Ext. 2203
Fax (415) 575-3132
Email: tfriend@sfbar.org
http: www.probono.net/sf/hap/index.cfm
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA)
Maeve Elise Brown
1305 Franklin Street, Suite 305
P.O. Box 29435
Oakland, CA 94606
Tel. (510) 703-5328
Fax (510)
Email:
http:
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) is a California statewide non-profit dedicated to ensuring that vulnerable residents are protected from economic discrimination. The bulk of our work is on predatory mortgage lending and unfair lending problems. We work on these issues through a combination of direct service work to consumers (primarily in the SF Bay Area), education and outreach to consumers, service providers, and government officials, trainings for service providers, attorneys, government officials and others, technical assistance to attorneys and other service providers, as well as policy work in partnership with other organizations.
Students interning with HERA have a chance to work on all aspects of our work, with a particular focus on interviewing clients, engaging in legal research and writing, preparing administrative complaints or working on litigation as appropriate, and participating in policy work. We are particularly concerned at this time with foreclosure prevention work.
Interested applicants should direct their inquiries to: Maeve Elise Brown, Executive Director, HERA, P.O. Box 29435, Oakland, CA 94604, or to her attention at melisebrown@heraca.org. Please email or mail your resume, a short writing sample, and a short cover letter about why you'd like to work with us. You can also call with any questions to: (510) 271-8443. Our website is heraca.org. A second language and prior experience working with diverse populations is preferred but not required.
International Institute of the East Bay
Susan Bowyer
449 – 15th Street, Suite 303
Oakland, CA 94610
Tel. (510) 451-2846 Ext. 304
Fax (510) 465-3392
Email:
http: www.iieb.org
Justice Now
Cynthia Chandler
1322 Webster Street, Suite 210
Oakland, CA
Tel. (510) 839-7654
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
Silvia Contreras
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
131 Steuart Street, Ste. 400
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 543-9444
Fax (415) 543-0296 (fax)
Email: scontreras@lccr.com
http: www.lccr.com
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights is devoted to advancing the rights of people of color, poor people, and immigrants and refugees, while maintaining its historical commitment to provide legal advocacy for African-Americans. The Lawyers' Committee provides free legal assistance to individuals on civil legal matters and also handles impact cases in the areas of race, poverty, and immigration. Under the supervision of an attorney, law clerks prepare legal memoranda, conduct legal research, perform other legal assignments, conduct client interviews, and participate in legal staff meetings. Law clerks work in all of our issue areas (race, immigration, poverty). During the semester, law clerks are expected to work at least 15 hours per week. If law clerks have a particular interest in homelessness/poverty issues or our African-American Agenda, they should indicate this in their cover letters. Law clerks at the Lawyers' Committee may be considered in the future for post-graduate fellowships at the Lawyers' Committee, including our Thurgood Marshall Fellowship and sponsorship for the Skadden and Equal Justice Works Fellowships. Prior public interest experience is preferred. If applicable, applicants should indicate if they are fluent in a foreign language (particularly Spanish, Mandarin, or Cantonese).
Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, writing sample and a list of three references to Sylvia Contreras
Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center
Mike Gaitley
600 Harrison Street, Suite 120
San Francisco, CA 94107
Tel. (415) 864-8848
Fax (415) 864-8199
Email: info@las-elc.org
http: www.las-elc.org
Legal Community Against Violence
Roger Tansey
268 Bush Street, # 555
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone (415) 433-2062
Fax (415) 433-3357
Email: roger@lcav.org
http: www.lcav.org/
Legal Community Against Violence is a public interest law center dedicated to preventing gun violence. Founded by lawyers, LCAV is the country’s only organization devoted exclusively to providing legal assistance in support of gun violence prevention.
Legal Services for Children
Abigail Trillin
1254 Market Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 863-3762
Fax (415) 863-7708
Email: abigail@lsc-sf.org
http: www.lsc-sf.org
Legal Services for Children is a non-profit law office which has provided direct legal and social services to San Francisco Bay Area children and youth since 1975. We serve youth who have suffered violence, abuse, or neglect and are at risk of entering the foster care or juvenile justice systems. The vast majority of our clients are low-income youth of color. We provide representation in a variety of civil legal matters, including
- dependency (child abuse/neglect proceedings);
- legal guardianships;
- education (disciplinary hearings, special education, & language rights);
- immigration; and
- juvenile delinquency prevention.
Legal Internships
Legal interns are responsible for conducting intake interviews with callers to our agency's "warm line." Interns also assist our staff attorneys with all aspects of client representation, including client interviews, legal research and writing, drafting of declarations and other pleadings, and attendance at court hearings. Interns also have the opportunity to assist staff with outreach to underserved youth populations, such as queer youth, immigrant youth, young women, and youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
- Supervision and Training: A supervising attorney will provide close supervision to all interns. In addition to weekly supervision meetings between the intern and supervising attorney, interns are provided with a series of training seminars on legal and social work issues affecting children and youth.
- Commitment: Term-time interns are required to commit to a weekly minimum of sixteen hours. Summer interns are required to work full-time for a minimum of ten weeks. Legal Services for Children is not able to offer compensation to our interns. We are, however, open to sponsoring fellowships that interns are able to receive from their law school or other sources.
- Deadlines: For summer legal internships, we must receive your application by February 1. For fall legal internships, we must receive your application by August 1. For spring legal internships, we must receive your application by December 1.
- Application Materials: Interested applicants should send a resume, cover letter and writing sample to "Internships at Legal Services for Children." Materials of no more than 10 pages can be faxed to (415) 863-7708.
- Questions: If you have questions about legal internships, you may contact the Intern Coordinator at (415) 863-3762.
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Cassie Pierson
Staff Attorney
1540 Market Street, #490
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 255-7036
Fax (415) 552-3150
Email: info@prisonerswithchildren.org
http: www.prisonerswithchildren.org
Our Work Includes:
- The Habeas Project—fighting to get survivors of domestic violence released from prison
- All of Us or None—working to restore the rights of the formerly incarcerated
- Women’s Health—investigating health and well-being of people in prison
- Legal Support—teaming with family members & attorneys to solve family law issues
- Family Rights—advocating to keep children of incarcerated parents in their communities
LSPC offers 3 intern sessions per year, January through May, June through August and September through December. During the summer sessions, our interns are expected to work a minimum of 35 hours per week. We ask for a 16-hour week minimum commitment for law students and a 10-hour minimum commitment from non-law students during the fall and spring sessions. We are willing to work around the students’ schedule and will entertain fewer hours.
If you would like to apply for an internship, please submit resume and cover letter to Robin Rederford at robin@prisonerswithchildren.org
Marin County District Attorney
3501 Civic Center Drive, Room 130
San Rafael, CA 94903
Tel: (415) 499-6450
Fax (415) 499-6734
Marin County Public Defender
Debra Levya
Hall of Justice, Room 139
San Rafael, California, 94903
Tel: (415) 499 6321
Fax: (415) 499 6898
http://www.marin.org/mc/pd/
Email:
National Center for Lesbian Rights
870 Market St., Suite 370
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tell. (415) 392-6257
Fax (415) 392-8442
Email: info@nclrights.org
http: www.nclrights.org
Mission: The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a national organization with headquarters in San Francisco and regional offices in Florida and Washington, DC. Through impact litigation, public policy advocacy, public education, collaboration with other social justice organizations and activists, and direct legal services, we advance the legal and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT) people and their families across the United States.
What We Do: NCLR is a non-profit, public interest law firm that litigates precedent-setting cases at the trial and appellate court levels, advocates for equitable public policies affecting the LCBT community, provides free legal assistance to LGBT clients and their legal advocates, and conducts community education of LGBT legal issues.
Who We Serve: More than 5,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families in all fifty states each year.
National Impact: NCLR’s legal and policy victories are important legal precedents that improve the lives of all LGBT people. Our free legal assistance empowers individuals to assert their own legal rights. Our community and public education broadens public support for LGBT civil rights.
National Center for Youth Law
405- 14th Street, 15th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel (510) 835-8098
Fax: (510) 835-8099
email: info@youthlaw.org
http: www.youthlaw.org
Goals
Safety, Stability, and Well-Being of Abused and Neglected Children
NCYL works to reform state foster care systems, promote policies and laws that protect children in foster care, and improve the effectiveness of child advocacy efforts nationwide.
Financial Stability for Low-Income Families and Children
NCYL works to increase public and private resources intended to help low-income families and children meet their basic needs.
Quality Health and Mental Health Care
NCYL strives to eliminate barriers to appropriate health and mental health care for low-income children, with a focus on adolescents and at-risk youth.
Juvenile Justice
NCYL works to ensure that youth in trouble with the law are treated appropriately for their age and capacity to change. NCYL promotes reforms that both keep youth from entering the juvenile justice system and protect the safety and welfare of youth in custody.
Work
NCYL fights in court on behalf of low-income children, and promotes programs, laws, and public policies that serve their best interests.
NCYL has played a critical role in expanding children's access to health and mental health care, improving the quality of foster care in states across the country, and keeping at-risk youth out of juvenile prisons by helping them get the support and training they need to become self-sufficient adults.
The law can offer hope and help for vulnerable children and youth, but children need advocates to make these laws work for them. NCYL speaks for those children and their families, insisting that they receive the benefit of laws that offer them access to safety, shelter, health care, and hope for a better future.
National Economic Development & Law Center
(now Insight)
2201 Broadway, Suite 815
Oakland, CA 94612-3024
Tel: (510) 251-2600
Fax:
Email:
http://www.insightcced.org/
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development is a national research, consulting, and legal organization dedicated to building economic health in vulnerable communities.
Our Mission
We develop and promote innovative solutions that help people and communities become, and remain, economically secure.
Our Vision
We envision a nation where all people have access to the resources, opportunities and services they need to thrive and to participate fully in society. For this vision to be realized, people must have good jobs, a quality education, decent and affordable housing and health care, a safe environment and the means to save money and build assets.
Our Values
We believe it is possible to build a more economically just and inclusive society. These are the values that guide us as we work toward this goal:
Equity
People who work should not have to live in poverty, and people who cannot work should have support.
Respect
All people deserve to be treated with respect.
Empowerment
People must have the tools and resources they need to take an active and informed role in creating positive changes in their lives and their communities.
Innovation
Today’s complex economic and social problems require an approach that is multidisciplinary and integrated.
Inclusiveness
A diverse and inclusive workplace and economy is essential to realizing opportunity for all people.
Integrity
A strategic, inquiring, and informed perspective promotes a high standard of quality and objectivity.
Collaboration
Lasting economic opportunity is created when government, businesses, nonprofits, and communities work together.
Knowledge Sharing
Sustainable development of vulnerable communities requires building and sharing collective knowledge.
National Housing Law Project
614 Grand Ave., Ste. 320
Oakland, CA 94610
Tel: (510) 251-9400
Fax: (510) 451-2300
Email:
http: nhlp@nhlp.org
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) is a national housing law and advocacy center. The goal of NHLP is to advance housing justice for the poor by increasing and preserving the supply of decent affordable housing, by improving existing housing conditions, including physical conditions and management practices, by expanding and enforcing low-income tenants' and homeowners' rights, and by increasing opportunities for racial and ethnic minorities. NHLP works to achieve that goal by providing legal assistance, advocacy advice and housing expertise to legal services and other attorneys, low-income housing advocacy groups, and others who serve the poor. NHLP’s primary areas of emphasis are public policy advocacy, litigation assistance, training, and research and writing, focusing on issues and problems that will have the greatest impact on the housing rights of the poor.
National Labor Relations Board
Judge William Schmidt
Region 20
901 Market Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. (415) 356-5255
Fax (415) 356-5156
Natural Resources Defense Council
Andrea Martin
111 Sutter Street, 20th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104-4540
Tel. (415) 875-6100
Fax (415) 495-5996
Email:
http: www.nrdc.org
The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.
We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places.
We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment.
We strive to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations.
We work to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. We seek to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.
Prison Law Office
San Quentin
General Delivery
Freedom Mall
San Quentin, CA 94964
Tel (415) 457-9144
Fax (510) 457-9151
Email:
http: www.prisonlaw.com
For over 25 years this nonprofit public interest law firm, located just outside the gates of San Quentin, has been in the forefront of legal efforts to enforce the Constitution and other laws inside the walls of California's prisons. With a small staff of attorneys and support personnel, the Prison Law Office represents individual prisoners, engages in class action and other impact-litigation, educates the public about prison conditions, and provides technical assistance to attorneys throughout the country. (The office generally does not handle criminal appeals or habeas corpus petitions challenging criminal convictions.)
California's prisons remain dangerously overcrowded at 195% of design capacity, with over 166,000 prisoners crammed into 33 institutions. Basic necessities of life, such as medical and mental health care, are often lacking. Prisoners with disabilities are not recognized as disabled, and many are not provided reasonable accommodations as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Through both individual and impact litigation, the Prison Law Office has changed many California Department of Corrections policies and practices, and has alleviated many of the cruel and unusual conditions that have been inflicted upon tens of thousands of state prisoners.
WHAT WE DO AND HOW TO CONTACT US
The Prison Law Office provides free legal services to California state prisoners, and occasionally to California state parolees. Our assistance is generally limited to cases regarding conditions of confinement. Further, the office does not typically assist or represent prisoners in lawsuits in which money damages are the primary objective. Instead, the office focuses on cases in which a change in conditions is sought. The office attempts to resolve such cases informally, if possible (by advocating to prison officials), or through formal litigation.
With regard to condition of confinement matters, the decision to assist with any particular case depends on the issue or problem presented, the chance of success, the amount of time and resource necessary to properly assist, the office's resources, staff availability and caseload.
The Prison Law Office publishes and periodically updates The California State Prisoners Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Prison and Parole Law. Click here for Ordering Information.
LAW STUDENT INTERNS (on-going)
The Prison Law Office regularly hires law students for summer or semester-long internships. Under the supervision of staff attorneys, law student interns work on both individual and class action cases. Work includes researching legal issues, drafting advice and advocacy letters, interviewing prisoners and reviewing prison files, and assisting in the preparation of monitoring reports and legal briefs. Volunteer, work study, clinical credits, and grant funding are all possible options.
To apply, send cover letter, resume and writing sample to: Prison Law Office, General Delivery, San Quentin, CA 94964 or fax to (415) 457-9151.
Pro Se Department
-US District Court for the Northern District of California
Luis Hernandez
Supervising Attorney Pro Se Department
450 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 522-2078
Pro Se Department externs assist the court's staff attorneys in managinghabeas corpus and civil rights cases brought by unrepresented prisoners.Externs will research and draft proposed dispositive orders in prisoners'cases challenging their convictions and conditions of confinement, and workclosely with the court's career staff attorneys. Students with a specialinterest in criminal law and/or prison law are especially encouraged toapply. Course work in constitutional law and criminal procedure ishelpful, but not required. A minimum commitment of 24 hours per week isrequired during the academic year, and 40 hours per week during the summer.
Students should apply electronically via the court's website, www.cand.uscourts.gov, and select pro se department under Chief Judge Walker.
Protection & Advocacy, Inc.
Stephen Rosenbaum
Legal Unit
1330 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel. (510) 267-1200
Fax (510) 267-1201
Toll Free (800) 776-5746
Email: Stephen.rosenbaum@pai-ca.org
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There are no specific application procedures or deadlines and no required courses for this placement. Preferred courses include: disability rights law; mental health law; social welfare law; constitutional law; civil rights; social justice skills & practice issues &/or evidence.
Public Advocates, Inc.
Richard Marcantonio
131 Steuart Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 431-7430
Fax (415) 431-1048
Email
http: www.publicadvocates.org
Public Advocates challenges the systemic causes of poverty and discrimination by promoting civil rights through advocacy, litigation, and partnership with low-income communities, people of color, and immigrants.
Public Advocates uses a range of strategies, including litigation and administrative actions, policy advocacy, multi-cultural coalition building, and community development, to promote equity and systemic change. Public Advocates’ present work focuses on education, housing, transit equity, consumer, insurance, and telecommunications issues.
- Public Advocates was one of the lead counsel in Williams v. State of California, in which a class of children and their families reached an historic agreement with the State to ensure children’s basic educational right to qualified teachers, textbooks, and decent facilities. To assure that school improvements actually reach the neediest students and least advantaged schools, Public Advocates remains actively involved in legislative advocacy, community organizing and education, and monitoring.
- Public Advocates has successfully represented inner city drivers in “redlined" zip-code territories denied affordable automobile insurance, women and minority police officers for the City of San Francisco, more than 50,000 Latino, African-American, and Asian educators denied employment opportunities in California public schools, and tens of thousands of pregnant undocumented immigrants denied prenatal care.
- The firm's clients have included more than seventy diverse community organizations and plaintiff classes, such as the National Council of La Raza, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Association of Mexican American Educators, World Institute on Disability, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and California Rural Indian Health Board.
- In addition, Public Advocates has helped to launch major, now independent, organizations such as Health Access, Latino Issues Forum, Greenlining Institute, Urban Strategies Council, HomeBase, Disability Rights Advocates, and the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California.
As a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Public Advocates relies on financial support from individuals, corporations, and foundations, and recovery of reasonable attorney fees in court cases, to continue its mission and raise a voice for social justice. We are actively seeking funding from local and national foundations to join recent support from the Hewlett, Marguerite Casey, VanLobenSels/RembeRock, and San Francisco Foundations, and Racial Justice Collaborative Fund, Equal Access Fund of the State Bar, and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights.
Public Health Law and Policy
National Policy & Legal Analysis Network
To Prevent Childhood Obesity
Manel Kappagoda
Deputy Director
2201 Broadway, Suite 502
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel. (510) 302-3343
Fax (510) 444-8253
Email: mkappagoda@phlpnet.org
http: www.phlpnet.org
Public Health Law and Policy (PHLP) invites law students to apply for its legal internships. PHLP focuses on improving the public's health by drawing on the expertise of an inter-disciplinary team of lawyers, urban planners, and public health professionals. PHLP staff attorneys provide comprehensive training, technical assistance, and legal tools to advance public health policy. Visit our website at www.phlpnet.org <http://www.phlpnet.org/> for additional information about the organization's current activities and staff. We are looking for law students with excellent research and writing skills who are well-organized, detail-oriented, and have cite checking experience, preferably on a law journal. Please send a resume, cover letter, writing sample and a list of references to: Ian McLaughlin, 2201 Broadway, Suite 502, Oakland, CA 94612. Email: imclaughlin@phi.org.
Regents of the University of California
Eric K. Behrens
Attorney at Law
1111 Franklin Street, 8th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
Tel. (510) 987-9800
Fax (510) 9757
Email: eric.behrens@ucop.edu
http: www.ucop.edu
Sacramento Child Advocates
8745 Folsom Blvd., Suite 150
Sacramento, CA 95826
Tel: (916) 364-5686
Fax: (916) 364-5687
Email:
http: www.SacChildAdv.com
For over 15 years, Sacramento Child Advocates, Inc., (SCA), a not-for-profit organization, has been providing abused and/or neglected children with legal representation. Dedicated attorneys and social workers work together to provide best practice related to advocating for this vulnerable population in our community.
Each month an average of 130 abused and/or neglected children enter the court system through no fault of their own. As a community we need to continue to provide advocacy for these children.
SCA is funded through grants, private donations and a contract with Sacramento County Superior Court. We depend on your tax-deductible contributions. Your monetary and/or in-kind donations make a great difference in the lives of these deserving children.
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