Summer Law Institute Coordinators with Legal Outreach Inc. in New York

Do you like criminal law? Do you want to be a trial lawyer? Are you interested in education policy or do you want to pursue a career in academia? Do you like working with underserved youth? Do you want public service/non-profit experience?

If so, this PAID summer job is for you!

Teach Criminal Law to Rising Ninth Graders as a Coordinator for Legal Outreach’s Summer Law Institute

Legal Outreach, Inc. prepares urban youth from underserved communities to compete at high levels by using intensive legal and educational programming as a tool for fostering vision, developing skills, enhancing confidence, and facilitating the pursuit of higher education. We accomplish these ends through law-related education programming and an intensive college preparatory program.

We seek exceptional law students interested in law-related education to teach and co-lead the Summer Law Institutes held at Columbia Law School, NYU Law School, Fordham School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, and St. John’s School of Law this summer. The Institute seeks to inspire motivated students from underserved communities entering high school to pursue careers in law and to strive for educational excellence. Thirty-two students from underserved NYC public junior high schools will be selected for each Institute. You will be trained to teach them a criminal justice and trial process curriculum, chaperone field trips, welcome prestigious guest speakers, and run a mock trial competition before federal and state judges.

Coordinators will work with an attorney supervisor to prepare for the Institute during the month of June by participating in an experiential classroom training program on educational methodology, developing lesson plans on substantive criminal law topics and trial advocacy skills, and organizing an itinerary of guest speakers and field trip visits. Then, from July 5 – August 5, coordinators will implement the five-week Institute and teach law lessons daily to the 32 participating students, fulfilling the objectives of the Institute through a set schedule of classes, events, speakers and trips. The last week of the job will be spent evaluating the program and its participants.

Coordinators will be paid $4,500 over the 10-week period.

Interested applicants should email a resume and cover letter to: Stephanie Shemin Feingold, Director of Legal Education at SLI@legaloutreach.org (type “SLI Coordinator Applicant - Name” in subject field).

Cover letters should include a detailed statement of interest in the position and an indication of whether the applicant has funding for the summer (not a requirement).

Deadline: March 1, 2011 (although we evaluate candidates on a rolling basis).