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Summer Law Intern Program Participating Components

Listed below are the Summer Law Intern Program participating components for summer 2026. Applicants must meet Summer Law Intern Program eligibility requirements at the time they apply. You may apply to either the SLIP-Pathways (for pre-law school graduation internships) or the SLIP-Law Clerk (for post-law school graduation internships).

  • If you seek a pre-law school graduation internship (i.e., for the summer between your 2L and 3L year), apply to the SLIP-Pathways.
  • If you are graduating from law school during the coming academic year and seek a post-law school graduation internship, apply to the SLIP-Law Clerk.
    • Eligibility for the SLIP-Law Clerk is restricted to graduating law students, who, by the application deadline, are formally committed to a qualifying eligibility preserving activity. Additional eligibility requirements may apply by hiring office.
  • Law students graduating this academic year who are applying for but have not yet accepted/formally committed to a qualifying eligibility preserving activity should apply to the Attorney General's Honors Program and, upon formally committing to an eligibility preserving activity, log into their application and transfer to the Summer Law Intern Program.

Civil Division (SLIP-Pathways) | Civil Division (SLIP-Law Clerk) | Executive Office for Immigration Review (SLIP-Pathways) | Office of Legal Counsel (SLIP-Law Clerk) | Office of the Solicitor General (SLIP-Law Clerk) |

SLIP-PATHWAYS EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES (Pre-law school graduation internships for Summer 2026) 

Name of ComponentTotal Number of Hires

Civil Division

Positions are in Washington, D.C. 

7

Executive Office for Immigration Review 

15

SLIP-LAW CLERK EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES (Post-law school graduation internships for Summer 2026) (Restricted Eligibility) 

Eligibility is restricted to graduating law students, who, by the application deadline, are formally committed to a qualifying eligibility preserving activity, such as a full-time judicial clerkship, legal fellowship, or graduate law program. 

  • Law students graduating this academic year who are applying for but have not yet accepted/formally committed to a qualifying eligibility preserving activity should apply to the Attorney General's Honors Program and, upon formally committing to an eligibility preserving activity, log into their application and transfer to the Summer Law Intern Program.
Name of ComponentTotal Number of Hires

Civil Division Appellate Branch (1-2) Positions are in Washington, D.C. 

1-2

Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). Position is in Washington, D.C. 

1

Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) (Phillips Fellowship). Positions are in Washington, D.C. Eligibility is further restricted to graduating law students who are entering a federal judicial clerkship in fall 2026/winter 2027.    

    2

 

Updated July 22, 2025