Clinical Internship Seminar
Indian Law Summer 2008

This exciting practical opportunity has the following educational goals:

• Provide students in-depth insight into the legal system, particularly as it relates to Indian issues.
• Provide training in basic lawyering and analytical skills and develop students’ abilities to learn from practical experience.
• Promote the development of students’ professional responsibility and ethics within the legal system, the law office or organization, with clients, the courts and other counsel.

Students may participate in an internship either for one term or over the course of the entire summer. Students meet weekly to discuss and resolve issues. Students are required to have completed a course in Indian law prior to or concurrent with the internship.

Internships are conducted in accordance with Lewis & Clark’s internship criteria, which comply with ABA requirements for outside study. The criteria include attendance at class sessions; mentoring by on-site lawyer/supervisor and law school professor; and completion of timesheets, evaluations and an internship agreement.

Students are responsible for determining if internship credit is transferable to their home law school. Students cannot be compensated for internships. Internship students must have completed at least one full year of law school.

Please complete the application and return it with your registration materials, along with a current resume, law school transcript, legal writing sample, and short letter of intent explaining your personal and professional goals, and how participating in the Clinical Internship Seminar will help you meet those goals. Placements are available with a variety of government, non-profit and private sector Indian law practitioners.

Please monitor this website for updates as internship placements are posted. If you are applying for a scholarship to the Indian Law Summer Program you may use the same Letter of Intent for both Applications.