Overview
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) seeks a law student for a 2021 Spring Legal Externship inWashington, D.C. (with the option to work remotely).About NELP:The National Employment Law Project (NELP) is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that fights for policies to create good jobs, expand access to work, and strengthen protections and support for workers in low-wage industries and the unemployed. We collaborate with national, state and local alliesincluding worker centers, community groups, immigrant advocacy organizations, unions, faith-based organizations, policy makers and think tanksto create good jobs and enforce hard-won worker rights.NELP is one of the countrys leading workers rights organizations, developing innovative policy models, conducting research, educating the public and other advocates, supporting worker organizing, and engaging in strategic communications. All of NELPs work is built upon a strong commitment to eliminating structural racism.With a staff of lawyers, researchers, communications, and policy experts, NELP works in close partnership with lawyers, grassroots organizing groups, and reformers to test new policy models in the states and cities and translate them to the federal level, and to enforce long-fought legal rights and protections, in order to respond to the key problems of the U.S. labor market in the twentyfirst century.To learn more about us, please visit our website at Externship:The 2021 spring legal extern will work with NELPs Worker Center Support Program on a project aimed at developing innovative organizational forms for worker centers supporting direct worksite organizing, including issues at the intersection of labor and nonprofit tax law, as well as corporate law and governance issues.The spring legal extern will assist NELP attorneys in all aspects of this work, including providing legal, policy, and strategic assistance for campaigns, including legal research and analyses, drafting legal memoranda and policy briefs.To Apply:Interested students should Submit cover letter, resume, and writing sample (if possible, in one PDF document) via, choosing Spring 2021 WCS Legal Externship from the Position drop-down menu under Application Information. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Students are encouraged to apply as early as possible and no later than January 31, 2021.To be eligible, the extern should be available to work at least 10 hours a week. As NELP does not permit unpaid externship, the extern must either be receiving academic credit, as part of an approved law school for-credit course or program during the spring 2021 semester, paid $20 per hour. Contact Charlotte Noss () if there are any questions regarding the externship requirements.NELP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and an equal opportunity, fair chance, affirmative action employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, or caregiver status.
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