Internships

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, Philadelphia, and beyond 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 an incomplete 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.

Advancement Project
AEquitas, The Prosecutor’s Resources on Violence Against Women
Alliance for American Leadership
American Foreign Policy Council
Amica Center for Immigrant Rights
Armenian Assembly in America
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
Child Care Aware of America
Child Justice, Inc.
Congressional Research Service
Council for Court Excellence
CWA International (Peggy Browning)
D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings
DC Lottery & Charitable Games Control Board
DNC, Voter Protection Institute
Doyle, Barlow & Mazzard (antitrust and trade regulation)
Environment America
Federal Communications Commission, Office of Administrative Judges
Federal Communications Commission, Office of Commissioner Michael O’Rielly
Federal Community Defender – Eastern District of PA
Federal Judicial Center, Division of Research
Federal Labor Relations Authority, Office of the Chairman
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection
Federal Trade Commission, Division of Marketing Practices
Food & Water Watch
Government Accountability Project
Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute
HIAS, Legal Services
Hudson Institute
Human Rights Campaign, Legal Department
Institute for E-Health
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
International Association of Women Judges
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Law Offices of Irena I. Kapinski (immigration)
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Microsoft, Government Affairs
National Abortion Federation
National Alliance for Fair Housing, Federal Public Policy and Communications
National Association of Wheat Growers, International & Legislative Affairs
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
National Council of State Legislatures
National Federation for the Blind
National Immigration Forum
National Juvenile Defender Center
National LGBT Task Force
National Rural Water Association
National Women’s Law Center
New York State United Teachers
O’Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson (Labor)
Office of Congressman Robert Brady
Office of Senator Casey
Office of Senator Ossoff
Office of Senator Toomey
Office of Senator Whitehouse
Public Defender Service of Washington D.C., Criminal Trial Practice
Public Employee Relations Board (PERB)
SAGE, Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders
Schwartz and Ballen, LLC (financial services and trade)
Small Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Division
Small Business Administration, General Counsel’s Office
Solid Ground Law
The Federal Practice Group
The Georgetown Center on Global Health Science & Security (x3)
U.S. Attorney’s Office for DC
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Agency, Public Computing Centers and Sustainable Broadband Adoption
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development
U.S. Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Departmental Appeals Board
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Elder Justice and Adult Protective Services, Administration for Community Living
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Legislation and Regulation
U.S. Department of Interior, Civil Rights Division
U.S. Department of Justice Aviation, Space, and Admiralty Division
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Appellate Section
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Torts Branch, Aviation and Admiralty Section
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Torts Branch, Environmental Torts Litigation
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section
U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service
U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of Enforcement Operations
U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of Immigration Review
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel
U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
U.S. House of Representatives Veterans Affairs Committee
U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporate Finance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Trading and Markets
U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, Enforcement Division
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management
U.S. Small Business Association, Office of General Counsel
Volunteer Legal Advocates
White House Council on Environmental Quality
Whitman-Walker Health, Legal Services
World Bank, Office of Institutional Integrity

The following is an incomplete list of upper-level internships secured by LPP students.

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

Where are they Now

Our Law & Public Policy Scholars are well represented in public interest, government, policy, and private practice positions in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York City, and beyond. They have secured prestigious fellowships and clerkships and have been accepted to government honors programs.

Whenever they land, our Scholars stay connected with the Program. They act as alumni mentors and guest lecturers. They act as moderators for our annual Spring Symposium. They provide internships for our current Scholars and offer career advice. Together we are building an influential network of alums who are eager to help the next generation of Law & Public Policy Scholars achieve their goals.

Here’s a partial list of post-graduation placements:

15^th Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, FL (Assistant Public Defender)
Amerihealth Caritas, Medicare Strategy Analyst
Astor & Weiss, Philadelphia
Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA
City of Philadelphia Law Department, Philadelphia PA
Clerkship, Federal Judge, New Mexico
Clerkships, Federal Judge, Philadelphia
Clerkships, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
Clerkship, Superior Court of New Jersey, Somerset County Vicinage, Chancery Division
Clerkships, Superior Court of New Jersey, Camden, NJ
Clerkships, Superior Criminal Court of New Jersey
Clerkship, Federal Tax Court, Washington, DC
Cozen & O’Conner, Washington, DC
Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office, Harrisburg, PA
Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Delaware Legal Aid Society, Georgetown, DE
Democracy Prep Public Schools, New York, NY (Legal Associate)
Dilworth Paxson LLP, Philadelphia, PA
District of Columbia Public Employee Relations Board, Washington, DC
Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP, Philadelphia, PA (2)
Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP, New York, NY
Duke Law School, LLM in Entrepreneurship (full scholarship)
Epstein Becker & Green, Washington, D.C.
Georgetown University Law Center, LLM in International Law (Business and Economics)
Georgetown University Law Center, LLM in Taxation
Hausfeld, Philadelphia, PA
If/When/How Fellowship, Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity (URGE), Washington, DC
Law Office of E.J. Fornias, Wilmington, DE
Law Offices of Jennifer J. Riley, Wayne, PA
Legislative Director, Philadelphia City Councilman At-Large Derek Green
Legislative Director, Philadelphia City Councilwoman Marian Tasco
Legal Science, Policy Analyst, Philadelphia, PA
Madison, Mroz, Steinman & Dekleva, PA, Albuquerque, NM
Malloy Law Office, LLC, Bethesda, MD
Marcellino & Tyson, PLLC, Charlotte, NC
McCree Mdjatou, PLLC, Washington, DC
Merck & Co, Inc., Vaccine Policy Analyst, Philadelphia, PA
Methfessel & Werbel, Edison, NJ
Michigan State University, Graduate Fellow, Political Science Department, Doctoral Program in Judicial Politics and Methods
Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius, Philadelphia, PA
National Veterans Legal Services Program, Washington DC
New York County District Attorney’s Office, New York, NY
New York University, LLM in Taxation
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (IP Licensing Associate)
O’Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson, Washington, DC
Office of the Public Defender, West Palm Beach, FL
Office of Senator Toomey, Washington, DC
Pepper, Hamilton, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Pepper, Hamilton LLP, Washington, DC
Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office
Philadelphia Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA (Assistant Attorney)
Philadelphia Public Defender’s Office
Public Health Law Research, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program
Rover Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC, Philadephia, PA
Sherwin, Campbell, Barnard, Iglitzin & Lavitt, LLP, Seattle, WA
Sequel Youth and Family Services, Washington, DC
Spear, Greenfield, Richman & Weitz, Philadelphia, PA
State of Delaware Family Court, Wilmington, DE
Stevens & Lee, Philadelphia, PA
Eversheds Sutherland, LLP, Washington, DC
Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research
The Axelrod Firm, Philadelphia, PA
Turner Consulting Group, Policy Analyst, Washington, DC
U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Washington, DC
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Staff Attorney’s Office, Philadelphia, PA
U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program, Executive Office of Immigration Review, Office of Chief Immigration Judge, New York, NY (2)
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Office of Sanctions Policy and Implementation, Foreign Affairs Officer, Washington, DC (Presidential Management Fellow)
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Washington, DC
U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps (2)
U.S. Tax Court, Washington, DC
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Counsel, Washington DC
Weber Gallagher LLP, Philadelphia, PA
William Penn Fellow in the Office of Early Childhood Development and Learning, Harrisburg, PA
Women Against Abuse, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Career Building

Internships

Where are they Now