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SLIP Deadlines & Key Dates

  • July 31, 2012 – application opens
  • September 4, 2012 – application deadline
  • Early October – interview candidates selected
  • Mid. Oct – early Nov. – telephone interviews
  • Late Nov. – February – offers extended

Participating SLIP Components

SLIP Application Checklist

Next Attorney
Recruitment Event

June

7

Fri

June 7, 2013

NALP/Diversity and Inclusion Summit

Chicago, IL

Office Locations & Practice Areas

SLIP Participating Components

The components listed below will participate in the Summer Law Intern Program for summer 2013. Actual hiring is subject to availability of funds; however, the components estimate that they will fill the number of positions listed below.  Applicants must meet Summer Law Intern Program eligibility requirements for all positions listed below.  Some offices, in particular the Office of the Solicitor General and the Office of Legal Counsel, impose additional eligibility criteria (e.g., judicial clerkship requirements).   Additional eligibility criteria specified by a hiring component are effective at the time the application opens (July 31, 2012).

Name of Component Number of Hires

Antitrust Division

  • Washington, DC (18)
  • Chicago (2)
  • New York (2)
  • San Francisco (2)

24

Civil Division

6

Executive Office for Immigration Review

  • Office of the Chief Immigration Judge (15)
         (Immigration Courts nationwide)
  • Office of General Counsel (2)
         (Washington, DC)
17
Federal Bureau of Prisons
8

Office of Legal Counsel
(eligibility restricted to 3Ls who are entering a judicial clerkship in fall 2013/winter 2014)

1

Office of the Solicitor General
(eligibility restricted to 3Ls who are entering a judicial clerkship in fall 2013/winter 2014)
3

Tax Division

5

U.S. Attorney's Offices

  • Southern District of Alabama (1)
    Hiring for the office in Mobile, Alabama.

  • Middle District of Pennsylvania (2)
    Hiring for offices in Harrisburg (1) and Scranton (1), PA.

  • District of Wyoming (4)
    (1 - 4)  Hiring for Cheyenne, Wyoming and Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park; Summer Interns will assist in the prosecution of a range of misdemeanors in Yellowstone National Park.
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Other Department components participate informally in the Summer Law Intern Program.  They may not follow the regular Program timeline and may contact a candidate at any time during or after the review and selection process. 

 Applicants are then able to check a box to indicate their interest in being considered by that office.

INFORMAL PARTICIPANTS