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Passwords can be found in Symplicity in the documents folder, weekly Career News email, or you can contact the Career Services Office for password information for the following resources.

Summer Internship Opportunities

Below is just a sampling of opportunities. Many more can be found in Arizona Handbooks Government Honors & Internship.

Department of Justice - Attorney General
- Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP) - this is the recruitment program for compensated summer internships
  - Summer 2023 closed September 6, 2022
- Volunteer Legal Intern Recruitment
Pathways Programs - The Internship Program allows students to work in agencies and get paid for their work
Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Appeals Board - Legal Internships
  - Summer 2023 applications - TBD
- Office of Administrative Law Judges - Summer Honors Clerkship Program - for 2L summer
  - Deadline for applications is the last Friday of January each year. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
  - Summer 2023 application open until January 27, 2023.
- Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance - National Enforcement Training Institute (NETI) Law Clerk Honors Program
  - Deadline for applications is the last Friday of January each year. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
  - Summer 2023 application open until January 27, 2023.
- Office of General Counsel - Summer Honors Program for Law Clerks
  - Closes the last day of August each year.
  - 2022 Summer application closed August 31, 2021
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Honors Internship Program
Government Accountability Office - Summer Associate Legal Honors Program
Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel - Summer Legal Program
NASA Office of General Counsel - Summer Legal Honors Internship Program
Securities and Exchange Commission - Student Positions
Federal Aviation Administration - Law Honors Intern Program
Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Summer Law Clerk Program (1Ls only)
- 2023 Summer - seeking 1Ls only - applications will be accepted beginning December 12, 2022, early applications encouraged as applications are reviewed on a rolling basis beginning in January
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition - Summer Honors Legal Internship
- Summer 2023 application for 2Ls should open in July
- Summer 2023 application for1Ls should open in December

Post Graduate Opportunities

Below is just a sampling of opportunities. Many more can be found in Arizona Handbooks Government Honors & Internship or Public Policy Handbook

Civilian Board of Contract Appeals - Law Clerk Program
- 2023 application period: November 10, 2022 to November 30, 2022, 8:59pm PT
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute - Graduate Fellows
Copyright Office, Barbara A. Ringer Honors Program
Department of Interior, Office of the Solicitor - Attorney Honors Program
U.S. Department of Justice
- US Attorney General Honors Program is an entry-level federal attorney recruitment program
  - 2023 application period closed September 6, 2022
- Office of the Solicitor General
  - Bristow Fellowship - 1 year fellowship assisting with Supreme Court cases - application period: July 15 through September 1 of the preceding year
  - Phillips Fellowship - fellowship for students who are serving as federal judicial clerks (2-3 months between graduation and start of clerkship) - Apply through the SLIP program (see internships above)
Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor - Honors Program
- 2023 applications now open - deadline for regional positions is September 12, 2022, deadline for DC national office is September 15, 2022.
Department of State - Office of the Legal Adviser
- Application period: Accepts applications from 3rd year students - deadline is September 1st of your 3rd year
- Accepts applications from Judicial Clerks on rolling basis. Recommends as early in fall as possible but no earlier than 12 months before end of Clerkship
Department of Transportation, Office of the General Counsel - Honors Attorney Program
Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Appeals Board - Honors Clerkship Program
  - 2023 application period open until September 29, 2022 or when 250 applications have been received which may come sooner than the closing date. Apply here
- Office of Administrative Law Judges - Post-Graduate Positions - no current openings, however, due to the rotational nature of these positions, openings can occur at any time.
- Office of Counsel to the Inspector General - Honors Attorney Fellowship
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Federal Communications Commission, Office of General Counsel - Attorney Honors Program
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - Legal Division Honors Attorney Program
- 2023 application period closed September 11, 2022
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Office of Administrative Law Judges - Administrative Law Clerkship
- 2023 application period: Open now and closes by the end of September 2022
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition Entry-Level Attorney Hiring
- Applications closed September 10
Homeland Security, Department of Office of General Counsel - Secretary's Honors Attorney Program
Housing & Urban Development, Office of General Counsel - Legal Honors Program
- 2023 application period closes October 3, 2022
- 10 Vacancies in 6 locations including San Francisco - application here
IRS, Office of Chief Counsel - Honors Attorney Program
- Two programs: Honors General Attorney Tax and Honors Attorney Program
- 2023 application period closes September 15, 2022 - open for Regional Offices (incl. Sacramento and other California offices)
National Labor Relations Board - Honors Program
- 2023 application expected to open in Fall 2022 - Those with a particular interest in this program are also encouraged to monitor USAJobs (see https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/faq/search/job/not-posted/ for instructions on how to set up an automated job search).
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Office of the General Counsel's Honor Law Graduate Program
Presidential Management Fellows Program: The PMF Program is an entry level program for recent graduates to get entry level positions with a number of federal government agencies
- PMF 2023 Application tentatively scheduled to open Fall 2022