Job o’ the Day: Paid Litigation Internship with South Texas College of Law’s Civil Practice Clinics in Houston, TX!

From the PSJD job posting:

The Randall O. Sorrels Legal Clinics seeks a litigation intern for a summer internship in its Civil Practice Clinics. The Civil Practice Clinics handle family law, probate, estate planning, guardianship, child welfare and social security cases for low-income and disadvantaged clients. This internship will be a 10 week full-time paid position focused on the development of litigation skills.

As an intern with the Civil Practice Clinics, the selected applicant will have the opportunity to work in all practice areas, though much of the litigation practice is in family law. The intern will work with attorneys at all different stages of the litigation process while also being exposed to the public service setting.

Intern duties include interviewing clients, conducting factual investigations in preparation for hearings, discovery, and drafting pleadings and documents for family, guardianship and PMC cases.

The litigation intern will receive a $4,000  sponsored by the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2013. For more information, view the full job description at PSJD.org (log-in required).