New York City

Summer Associate position for 1L or 2L with Cohen&Green, a small NYC-based civil rights firm that focuses mainly on cases involving police misconduct. In recent years, much of our work has been related to violations of individuals’ constitutional rights in the context of protests, county and state correctional facilities, and federal prisons. Our practice areas also include LGBTQ+ rights and equal protection, criminal defense, and trusts and estates. Full time for 10 weeks. Position can be be hybrid (2 days/week in person) or fully remote.

The Center for Constitutional Rights offers paid, part-time, remote and hybrid semester-long internship or externship opportunities to law students. Contact Leah Todd at volunteer@ccrjustice.org to learn more.

Each term, an internship opportunity is posted at https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/jobs/internship-legal-intern. Our spring internship deadline has passed, but we will begin our fall recruitment process in late spring/early summer 2024.

I am a solo practitioner focusing mostly on prison abuse (inmate on inmate and officer on inmate), wrongful death in prison, false arrest, malicious prosecution, excessive force, wrongful conviction and I have other civil rights cases as well.