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Are you eager to be employed at a job that requires 1000 hours of work for zero pay?

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If so, here are a couple of great opportunities:

Communications Internships

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS), a 501(c)(3) higher education association, represents 179 American law schools and is located in downtown Washington, D.C. Its communications department is seeking interns to support the communications and media outreach program.

The communications interns will work 15-20 hours per week during the school year and full-time during the summer at our Dupont Circle headquarters office. These are unpaid internships.

Desirable skills are: strong writing ability, knowledge of media and event planning, computer skills, and general web skills. Commitment to meeting deadlines is essential.

Tasks include: developing content for new website, for example, researching and summarizing news stories about legal education, contacting members for website content; alpha testing the new website; assisting with social media content and strategy; media and experts database development; press relations; and assisting with strategic communications planning including drafting Powerpoint presentations for association’s board.

Please send resume and cover letter via email to:

James Grief
Director of Communications

Law Student Internships

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS), a 501(c)(3) higher education association, represents 179 American law schools and is located in downtown Washington, D.C. AALS is seeking law student interns to work on research and writing projects related to our mission of improving legal education. Candidates must be current J.D. students. These are unpaid internships.

The law student interns will work 15-20 hours per week during the school year and full-time during the summer at our Dupont Circle headquarters office, and will work directly with Professor Judith Areen, Executive Director, and Professor Regina Burch, Associate Director. Interns will have the opportunity to interact with other law school professors and deans through their work with AALS committees and the AALS leadership team, as well as to participate in AALS sponsored meetings and conferences. Interns will be encouraged to present innovative approaches to the projects introduced by our staff and to general issues facing legal education today.

Specifically, interns will assist committees of law professors through legal research and writing on topics related to legal education, for example, the value of a U.S. legal education; and will research AALS workshop topics such as financial aid for law students, creating bibliographies and summarizing the law and policy considerations related to the topic. Also, interns will assist with developing white papers, other website content, and materials for AALS programs, for example, by researching and documenting innovative curricular programs in legal education and the American Bar Association standards related to those programs.

Interns must be available to work during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 9-5:30, though specific schedules (days of the week and time of the day) within these hours are flexible.

Interested students should send their resume and cover letter to [email protected] for consideration. Please include your schedule of availability!

17.5 hours per week during a 30-week school year, and 40 hours per week during a 12-week summer adds up to just over one thousand hours of labor, with a generous European-socialism-style ten weeks of unpaid vacation, to go along with the unpaid but non-vacation part of the year.

The AALS had just under $5.8 million in revenue last year, almost all of it coming in form of membership dues from law schools, which themselves are largely comprised of student tuition. So the lucky winners of the competition for these positions will not merely be working for free: they’ll have already paid their employer for the privilege of doing so.

Law prof Susan Westerberg Prager, the executive director of the organization during the previous five years, did not volunteer her time: she was paid $459,221 by the organization in FY2013, $465,242 in FY2012, and $468,676 in FY2011.

Maybe she quit because they kept cutting her salary.

The justification for these sorts of unpaid jobs is that “internships” provide invaluable experience and a foot in the door to rich kids being supported by their families hard-working young people who can look past quotidian considerations like acquiring food and shelter while living in one of the most expensive cities in America.

Also, the beauty of being a “non-profit” organization like the AALS (and all the law schools who belong to it) is that even the extremely weak limitations on exploiting intern labor that apply to for-profit enterprises pretty much don’t apply to you.

h/t OTLSS

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