The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection is now hiring second year law students for its 2024 Summer Honors Legal Internship Program. We are looking for highly motivated law students with an interest in working with each of the Bureau’s divisions throughout the summer: Advertising Practices, Enforcement, Financial Practices, Marketing Practices, and Privacy and Identity Protection. We offer substantive legal work that gives interns an opportunity to demonstrate their writing, analytical, and advocacy skills. The small size of the program enables interns to be fully integrated onto investigative teams and take on meaningful assignments with significant responsibility. Assignments may include: drafting pleadings, discovery requests and responses; appearing at hearings and depositions with Bureau attorneys; attending meetings with parties and their outside counsel; leading interview calls and summarizing findings through written reports; reviewing documents; and researching a wide range of legal issues. Each legal intern will be paired up with an attorney mentor.
Eligibility information:
· The Summer Honors Legal Internship Program is an unpaid position. Interns must be either (1) receiving payment from another source (e.g., a fellowship or school-provided stipend for public interest work), OR (2) subject to a requirement from their law school that they not receive payment for their work (e.g., the applicant is receiving academic credit or public service credit from their school, and must not receive pay in order to receive credits)
· Interns are expected to work at least eight weeks but no more than twelve weeks.
· Applicants must be U.S. citizens and have completed two years of law school by the beginning of the summer of 2024. Applicants must also be registered law students in the fall of 2024 to be eligible.
Please send application materials addressed to FTC BCP Summer Law Clerk Program Coordinator, bcplawclerk@ftc.gov. Each application must contain the following:
– cover letter explaining interest in the Bureau of Consumer Protection;
– resume;
– short writing sample (no more than ten pages);
– three references, including both email and phone number; and
– copy of law school transcript (unofficial transcripts will be accepted with the application, official transcripts will be required before the start date).
