Battered Immigrant Project<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nLegal Aid of North Carolina\u2019s Battered Immigrant Project (BIP) is seeking a second or third year law student who is fluent in oral and written Spanish to assist in the preparation of immigration cases for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.\u00a0 Working under an attorney\u2019s supervision, the law student will work directly with clients to prepare their immigration cases for submission to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).\u00a0 In addition to the clients, the law student will also have the opportunity to work with victim advocates and various law enforcement agencies to obtain the necessary documents for their cases.\u00a0 The student will have the opportunity to prepare several clients\u2019 cases from start to finish. Case preparation will include interviewing clients, writing affidavits, obtaining court and medical records, completing forms, and drafting cover letters to USCIS to present their cases.\u00a0 An attorney from the BIP will meet with the student regularly to discuss case progress, provide feedback, and answer questions.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nFarmworker Unit<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nFarmworkers are essential to harvest North Carolina\u2019s tobacco, fruits, vegetables, and other plants; they also plant trees and work with livestock and poultry. The Farmworker Unit (FWU) provides free legal assistance in civil matters to this population statewide.\u00a0 Its office is centrally located in Raleigh, but staff make regular visits to rural areas where farmworkers live and work, mostly in the evenings. The Unit\u2019s litigation primarily involves employment law, utilizing state and federal laws regulating wages, working conditions, safety, and housing for migrant farmworkers.\u00a0 The Unit also represents some agricultural product processing workers with employment-related issues. The Unit has three attorneys, a community education coordinator, and three paralegals.\u00a0 LANC is committed to high quality representation of farmworker clients and offers an opportunity to do challenging work with committed colleagues.<\/p>\n
The MLK will be working directly with individual FWU clients and help them address a wide variety of needs.\u00a0\u00a0 Under the supervision of an attorney, the MLK law intern will be responsible for case support in current litigation, interviewing new clients, supporting community education efforts, working with case teams and attending staff meetings. In addition, the intern will be expected to accompany experienced staff on outreach to migrant labor camps a couple of evenings per week.\u00a0 Written and oral proficiency in Spanish and a driver\u2019s license is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Multiple PAID summer internship positions with Legal Aid of North Carolina have not yet been filled for the summer of 2017! I wanted to highlight two statewide special projects at Legal Aid seeking applicants with oral and written proficiency in Spanish. \u00a0The Farmworker Unit law intern will be based in Raleigh and the Battered Immigrant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internships"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6RHEE-fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farmworkerlanc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}