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Clerkship - Landmark Civil Rights/ Antitrust Case

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  • Descripción

    Fecha de inicio:4 de noviembre de 2024
    Fecha de finalización:15 de marzo de 2025
    Fecha límite de postulación:30 de octubre de 2024
    Pasantía/Práctica - Beneficios:Créditos académicos
    Tipo de pago:Compensación
    Sueldo o asignación para gastos específicos:Stipend distributed on each day worked
    Horas por Semana:Depends on candidate. Perhaps 10 - 20 hours per week, Flexible Schedule

    Descripción

    Seeking:

    A current law school student, law school graduate, or advanced undergraduate Legal Studies major.

    Internship/Clerkship:

    • Assist in the final editing of 100 page federal class action complaint (filed on behalf of over a million plaintiffs - most poor and individuals of color - who have been permanently prohibited from applying to, or attending, any undergraduate or graduate school in the United States.
    • Intern/Clerk can also participate in client assistance and interaction, as well as work with national media already in process.
    • Principal is an attorney of 38 years, who has successfully brought a class action against colluding employer corporations, on behalf of thousands of victim employees. Principal has additional expertise gained while earning his Economics degree with honors, from Duke University.

    Candidate should:

    • Have outstanding writing and editing skills;
    • Preferably, be familiar with use of Lexis/Nexis or Westlaw to create or verify citations.
    • Work well independently, and in a team; and participate with passion;

    Also helpful but not necessary:

    • Familiarity with the Federal Districts in New York or Massachusets;

    Benefits of role:

    • Could lead to a well paid position beginning Summer 2025.
    • Assisting plaintiffs who are primarily poor and minorities.
    • Already one in depth story (and interviews) of this class action by NPR, and ikely to be very high profile, important case.

    Bend the Arc, Inc. is a nonprofit incorporated to solve social injustices in the U. S. through legal (and other) means - particularly injustices arising from wealth disparity.

    "The moral ARC of the universe is long, but it BENDS toward justice".

    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Seeking:

    A current law school student, law school graduate, or advanced undergraduate Legal Studies major.

    Internship/Clerkship:

    • Assist in the final editing of 100 page federal class action complaint (filed on behalf of over a million plaintiffs - most poor and individuals of color - who have been permanently prohibited from applying to, or attending, any undergraduate or graduate school in the United States.
    • Intern/Clerk can also participate in client assistance and interaction, as well as work with national media already in process.
    • Principal is an attorney of 38 years, who has successfully brought a class action against colluding employer corporations, on behalf of thousands of victim employees. Principal has additional expertise gained while earning his Economics degree with honors, from Duke University.

    Candidate should:

    • Have outstanding writing and editing skills;
    • Preferably, be familiar with use of Lexis/Nexis or Westlaw to create or verify…

    Compensación

    • Rewarding participation in landmark suit which will be historic
    • Social Change - Assist Plaintiff class of one million or more, made up primarily of poor and minorities
    • Clerkship could evolve into long term paid work and position
    • Rewarding participation in landmark suit which will be historic
    • Social Change - Assist Plaintiff class of one million or more, made up primarily of poor and minorities
    • Clerkship could evolve into long term paid work and position

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    El trabajo debe llevarse a cabo desde cualquier lugar en Estados Unidos
    Ubicación Asociada
    Stamford, CT, USA

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