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LEGAL ASSOCIATES OPPORTUNITIES

Category:
Civil Rights, Human Rights, Constitutional, Immigration, Employment, Legislative.

Description:
ADC, which is non-sectarian and non-partisan, is the largest Arab American grassroots organization is the United States. It was founded in 1980 and has chapters nationwide. Through its Legal Department, ADC offers counseling in cases of discrimination and defamation and selected impact litigation in the areas of immigration.

Duties:
Interns are responsible for their own cases under the direct supervision of the ADC
attorneys. Cases involve employment discrimination, immigration, airline
discrimination, hate crimes, educational discrimination, public accommodation, housing,
freedom of speech. Interns also represent the organization at various meetings and
conferences with civil rights, human rights, as well as federal agencies and departments.
In addition, ADC Summer Legal Associates are required to write a twenty page law
review style paper related to the issues that ADC handles, and conduct a thirty minute
presentation of their paper.

Requirements:
1L, 2L, 3L or LLM

Preferred coursework:
Constitutional law or seminar, employment law, immigration law and clinic experience,
international law, other constitutional law seminars, legislative law, criminal law, torts.

Application materials:
Please mail or e-mail the following: resume, cover letter, two references, writing
sample, transcript.

Application deadlines:
Fall Semester - September 30
Spring Semester - December 30
Summer - December 1

Mail competed applications to:
Intern Coordinator
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
1732 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Phone: (202) 244-2990