Summer Internships

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Summer Internships

The intern should be rising second- and third-year law students for unpaid judicial internship positions. Intern program provides an opportunity to improve research and writing skills, while also providing a behind-the-scenes view of how an intermediate court of appeals works. Interns research factual and legal issues, review appellate records, perform substantive citation checks, write memoranda of law, discuss those memoranda with the judges and the Court's attorneys, observe the judges' discussions of issues in cases that are submitted, observe oral argument, and observe postsubmission resolution of legal issues raised in oral argument. students are selected to participate in the First Court's program with or without obtaining law-school credit.

Additional Information

Send cover letter, a resume, and an unofficial law-school transcript.

Company info

First Court of Appeals, Houston, Texas
301 Fannin Street, Room 208
Houston
Texas
United States 77002
Website : http://www.txcourts.gov/1stcoa.aspx