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The application deadline is March 15, 2019
The New York State Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is seeking talented undergraduate and graduate students for its 2019 Summer Law Internship Program (SLIP). The SLIP officially runs for 8 weeks between June and July (10-week appointments are available, if required by the applicant’s funding source). The 2019 SLIP will begin on June 3, 2019. Interns commit to work full-time for the duration of the program. These internships are either volunteer positions, externships for course credit, funded by a public service grant obtained by the student, or work study funded by a college. We encourage applicants to confer with their financial aid offices and public interest career advisors for information regarding funding available for public service internships with a government agency such as the OAG.
Placements are available statewide within the Divisions of Criminal Justice, Economic Justice, Social Justice, State Counsel, Appeals and Opinions, Regional Affairs, Executive and Administration. Undergraduate and graduate students assist professional and support staff in all phases of their work including, but not limited to non-legal research; data entry; drafting of correspondence and memos; assisting with consumer complaint intake and mediation; and, performing clerical tasks such as filing, answering telephones, scheduling meetings. We are seeking hardworking interns who are committed to public service and have excellent research and writing skills; fluency in other languages (e.g., Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Korean, etc.) in addition to English is a plus, but not required.
Students selected for the SLIP will be assigned to one of the bureaus in the main offices in either Manhattan or Albany, or to one of the smaller regional offices. The practice area of a bureau is generally reflected in its name. Our regional offices are located in Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Harlem, Suffolk, Nassau, Plattsburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and Westchester. The regional offices are full-service locations that handle matters such as consumer fraud complaints and mediations, consumer frauds and related criminal prosecutions, civil rights and labor law prosecutions, and the investigation and prosecution of environmental law violations. In addition, they handle State Counsel matters in defense of the state, its agencies and employees in lawsuits brought in state and federal courts. For more information about the work of a bureau or regional office, please visit the Divisions and Media Center sections of our website.
Students should only apply for those bureaus and/or regional offices of interest to them. Location preferences will be honored; however, bureau assignment may ultimately be made based upon the needs of the OAG.
For a complete list of bureaus that are currently hiring undergraduate & graduate student interns for the summer of 2019, please visit www.ag.ny.gov/job-postings
Applications for the 2019 SLIP are being received online. To apply, please visit our careers website: www.ag.ny.gov/job-postings.
If you have questions about a position with the OAG, the application process or need assistance with submitting your application, please contact the Legal Recruitment Bureau via email at recruitment@ag.ny.gov.
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