Summer Internship with Plaintiff's Civil Rights Firm (Unpaid)
Pennsylvania
Internship or Externship at Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP
Our firm (Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP) offers summer internships to one or two law students per year. We encourage students to seek a stipend from their law school, but, if they are unable to do so, we pay a weekly salary consistent with the rate paid by local non-profit organizations. We also offer in-semester for-credit externship sponsorships for one or two law students each semester.
Philadelphia (in-person strongly preferred) but remote will be considered for excellent candidates.
Summer internships and semester externships at Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project
Summer internships and semester externships at Pennsylvania civil rights organization. Philadelphia or Pittsburgh (hybrid arrangements will be considered).
Kenney v. Turko
Excessive force involving one plaintiff and two officers. Strikes to the head with hard object while handcuffed. Minimal physical injuries. Witness saw incident from window. Officers denied completely. Original jury award of $5,000 compensatory and $100,000 punitive. Reduced to $50,000 compensatory following post trial motion to reduce punitive award.
Wallace v. Community Education Centers
35 y.o mentally ill woman allowed to commit suicide in jail after 50 days in solitary confinement without treatment; defendant was private jail company; survived by parents.
Barbaro v. Monroe County
Jail suicide of pizza shop owner; private jail medical provider was deliberately indifferent to his risk of suicide; jury assessed $8M in punis against the medical corp., PrimeCare.