Internships - Law & Public Policy Program

Summer Internships in Washington, D.C.

Our Law & Public Policy Scholars have worked for a broad range of government agencies, Congressional offices and committees, non-profit advocacy organizations, think tanks, and private firms. Many of the internships they have secured are very selective. Our alumni network in DC has been instrumental in facilitating many of these opportunities. We are especially proud of the number of placements that have requested our students for multiple years. The feedback we receive about our Scholars is uniformly positive and very strong. As we like to say, “Temple Law students hit the ground running.”

The following is a list of the internships that our Law & Public Policy Scholars have secured for their first summer in Washington, DC since the LPP Program began in 2012 through the summer of 2018.

AEquitas, The Prosecutor’s Resources on Violence Against Women (2012 – 2018)
American Foreign Policy Council (2018)
Armenian Assembly in America (2012)
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) (2014 – 2015, 2017 – 2018)
Child Care Aware of America (2014)
Congressional Research Service (2016)
Council for Court Excellence (2016)
DC Lottery & Charitable Games Control Board (2012 – 2013)
D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings (2012)
DNC, Voter Protection Institute (2012)
Doyle, Barlow & Mazzard (antitrust and trade regulation) (2012 – 2015)
Environment America (2013)
Federal Communication Commission, Office of Administrative Judges (2013)
Federal Communications Commission, Office of Commissioner Michael O’Rielly (2014)
Federal Judicial Center, Division of Research (2013)
Federal Labor Relations Authority, Office of the Chairman (2016)
Federal Trade Commission, Division of Marketing Practices (2013 – 2014)
The Federal Practice Group (2015)
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection (2013)
HIAS, Legal Services (2017)
Human Rights Campaign, Legal Department (2016 – 2017)
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (2014 – 2016)
Institute for E-Health (2018)
International Association of Women Judges (2016 – 2017)
Internet2 (2013 – 2018)
Law Offices of Irena I. Kapinski (immigration) (2012 – 2014)
Microsoft, Government Affairs (2018)
National Abortion Federation (2015)
National Alliance for Fair Housing, Federal Public Policy and Communications (2012 – 2014)
National Association of Wheat Growers, International & Legislative Affairs (2012)
National Council of State Legislatures (2012)
National Federation for the Blind (2018)
National Immigration Forum (2015 – 2017)
National Juvenile Defender Center (2017 – 2018)
National LGBT Task Force (2017)
National Rural Water Association (2012)
O’Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson (Labor) (2012)
Office of Congressman Robert Brady (2015 – 2017)
Office of Senator Casey (2014)
Office of Senator Toomey (2012 – 2013)
Public Defender Service of Washington D.C., Criminal Trial Practice (2013)
Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) (2014)
SAGE, Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders (2012)
Schwartz and Ballen, LLC (financial services and trade) (2016 – 2018)
Small Business Administration, General Counsel’s Office (2012)
Small Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Division (2013 – 2014)
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Agency, Public Computing Centers and Sustainable Broadband Adoption (2012)
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development (2016 – 2017)
U.S. Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (2015 – 2016)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Departmental Appeals Board (2016)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Elder Justice and Adult Protective Services, Administration for Community Living (2018)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Legislation and Regulation (2016 – 2018)
U.S. Department of Interior, Civil Rights Division (2016)
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section (2013)
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section (2018)
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section (2018)
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Appellate Section (2015, 2017)
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Torts Branch, Aviation and Admiralty Section (2014 – 2018)
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Torts Branch, Environmental Torts Litigation (2018)
U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of Enforcement Operations (2014, 2016)
U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service (2014)
U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division (2018)
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of Immigration Review (2017)
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (2018)
U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (2012)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel (2012 – 2013)
U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee (2012)
U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, Enforcement Division (2012)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporate Finance (2015, 2018)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Trading and Markets (2017)
U.S. Small Business Association, Office of General Counsel (2012 – 2013)
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (2016 – 2017)
U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps (2013, 2017 – 2018)
White House Council on Environmental Quality (2016)
Whitman-Walker Health, Legal Services (2017)
World Bank, Office of Institutional Integrity (2016)

Upper-level Internships

As part of their leadership training, our Scholars are encouraged to pursue additional internships after their initial DC summer. For the Scholars who started after their 1L year, these additional internships will include their 2L summer. For the others, the listed upper-level internships were taken during the academic year. The Scholars who take the semester in DC option, there are full-time for the entire semester. The following is a partial list of the internships that Scholars pursued after spending their initial summer in Washington DC. Some of the placements have been held by multiple Scholars

Accounting Asia/Accounting Asia, International Tax, Corporate Governance, and Immigration for Professionals Research Intern, Tokyo, Japan/San Francisco, CA

American Antitrust Institute, Washington, DC
Astor Weiss, Philadelphia, PA
Camden County Public Defender, Camden, NJ
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Washington, DC – full semester
Coalition for the International Criminal Court, New York, NY
Community Legal Services, Philadelphia, PA
Cozen & O’Connor, Washington, DC
DC Defender’s Office – full semester
Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Dechert LLP, Washington, D.C.
Drinker, Biddle Reath, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Education Law Center, Philadelphia, PA
Epstein Becker & Green, Washington, D.C.
Federal Communications Commission, General Counsel’s Office, Washington, DC
Federal Judicial Center, Division of Research, Washington, DC
Federal Public Defender, Philadelphia, PA
Heckscher Teillon, Conshohocken, PA
Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. – full semester
Human Rights Campaign (HRC), McCleary Law Fellow, Washington, DC – full semester
Immigration Court, New York, NY
Immigration Court, Philadelphia, PA
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, Project Officer, Climate Change and Human Security Program, Washington, DC – full semester
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, Project Officer, Water Program, Washington, DC – full semester
International Law Institute – African Centre for Legal Excellence, Kampala, Uganda
International Organization for Migration (Geneva) and ABA (Paris), Philadelphia, PA
Kessler Topaz, Radnor, PA
Law and Advocacy for Women in Uganda (LAW-Uganda), Kampala, Uganda
Law Clerk, Hon. C. Darnell Jones II, U.S. District Courts, E.D. PA, Philadelphia, PA
Law Clerk, Hon. M. Rendell, 3d Circuit, Philadelphia, PA
Law Clerk, Hon. Joel H. Slomsky, U.S. District Courts, E.D. PA, Philadelphia, PA
Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia, PA
Media Mobilizing Project, Philadelphia, PA
Mercury Consulting, Philadelphia, PA
Merit System Protection Board, Philadelphia, PA
Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC – full semester
Montgomery County, District Attorney’s Office, Norristown, PA
Montgomery County, Public Defender, Norristown, PA
Montgomery County MD, State Prosecutor’s Office, Rockville, MD
Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius, Philadelphia, PA
Multnomah County District Attorney, Portland, OR
National Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC
National Women’s Law Center, Washington, DC
New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, Trenton, NJ
New Jersey Office of Administrative Law, Trenton, NJ
New York Legal Aide Society, New York, New York
NEXUS Institute, Washington DC – full semester
O’Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson, Washington, DC
Peggy Browning Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA
Pepper, Hamilton, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Harrisburg, PA
- Representative Donna Bullock
- Representative Joanna McClinton
Pennsylvania Innocence Project, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia City Council
- Councilman Derek Green
- Councilwoman Helen Gym
- Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr.
- Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez
- Councilman Al Taubenberger
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office
Philadelphia Public Defender’s Office
Prickett Jones & Elliott, Wilmington, DE
Public Health Management Corporation, Policy Fellow, Philadelphia, PA
Saul Ewing, Philadelphia, PA
Stradley Ronan, Philadelphia. PA
Think Tanks for Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
U.N. High Commission for Refugees, Washington, DC
U.N. University, Center for Policy Research, Tokyo, Japan
U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Washington, DC
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Philadelphia, PA
U.S. Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC – full semester
U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, Philadelphia, PA
U.S. Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Washington, DC
U.S. Department of Environmental Protection, Office of General Counsel, Washington DC
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights, Philadelphia, PA
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of General Counsel, Philadelphia, PA
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC
U.S. Department of Interior, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC – full semester
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Torts Branch, Aviation and Admiralty Section, Washington DC
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Appellate Section, Washington DC
U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC – full semester
U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Washington DC
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Investigations Subcommittee, Washington, DC – full semester
Weber Gallagher LLP, Philadelphia, PA
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC – full semester
Whitman-Walker Health, Washington, DC