Job’o’th’Week (Internship Edition)
The Organization
Texas Defender Service (TDS) is a non-profit organization established in 1995 by experienced Texas death penalty attorneys.Our mission is to establish a fair and just criminal justice system in Texas.
TDS aims to improve the quality of representation afforded to those facing a death sentence and to expose and eradicate the systemic flaws plaguing the Texas death penalty.
The Position
TDS seeks summer law students for full-time internships in their Austin and Houston offices to assist in all aspects of TDS’s work. Summer law interns must be capable of performing both high-level legal research and briefing along with ground-level intensive investigative work. When possible, students will also attend local trainings, trials and oral arguments. Students will receive training on how to conduct mitigation investigation in capital cases both in preparation for trial and post-conviction briefing. They will receive regular feedback throughout the summer on both written and investigative work.
See the full post on PSJD: https://www.psjd.org/opportunitydetails?OppID=90068