Fall 2018 Legal Intern
Job Description:
Legal Translator Interns (LTs) work at LawDecoder as researchers and translators of the law. Law is changed from legalese into layman's terms in order to help the general public understand their basic rights.
What we will do for you:
- Possible eligibility to receive pro-bono hour credit via an internship with us for State Bar requirements or university requirements.
- Networking opportunities & connections with our team
- Reference letters
- Mentorship from staff in your team
- Free coffee/tea!
What you’ll do for us:
- Help find relevant laws to specific problems
- Make the answers to legal questions more digestible to the average person
- Work with large data sets and tag statutes that are relevant to helping create a comprehensive database of easy-to-understand legal information
Who you are:
- Organized
- Strong writing and research skills
- Excellent grammar and syntax skills
- Able and willing to work on quick deadlines
- Can easily read, understand, and summarize information in a thorough but poignant way
- Passionate about the law
- Attentive to detail
Our Intention for Internships:
At LawDecoder, we want our interns to gain as much from their time with us as we hope they want to give. That’s why we have a set of “intentions” that we aim to fulfill during your time with our team.
- Work Product:
- Work product entails concrete projects that you will be working on over the duration of your internship; these include any tangible things you produce that you can put in a literal or metaphorical portfolio. Every person has a set of skills they can put to work in a practical way, and we want the results of your efforts to be something both you and LawDecoder can be proud to display.
- Challenge Projects
- Everyone who works with us is intelligent and capable, and every person also needs to be challenged to grow and expand themselves. That’s why we strive to provide our interns with “challenge projects” that help you acquire skills that you might not gain by only doing core projects within your position. Learning happens at the edge of your comfort zone, and we hope for you to feel a sense of attaining your goals as well as having had experienced something new by the conclusion of your internship.
- Networking
- It can be scary to meet new people, but scary is also fun-- and oftentimes useful. Networking is a core component of your internship at LawDecoder. We want you to make meaningful connections with our staff and any other relevant individuals who you might want or need in your network. If you leave your internship without having had made at least one or two solid connections, we haven’t done our job.