Recruitment

Legal Caseworker Intern

Job Description

Job Title: Legal Caseworker Intern

Duration: 4 months

Days per week: At least 3 days a week

Start date: April 2020

Based: Bloomsbury, London

Description: Generally, Interns assist the Legal Director and Legal Project Managers with all aspects of preparatory work for the AIRE Centre's legal advice services and cases pending before the ECtHR, including:

Legal research in support of cases
Correspondence with the client, the court or other legal professionals
Accompanying the legal team during hearings
Keeping effective files

In addition to the above, interns may be requested to assist with:

Undertaking research for articles, both for publications of the AIRE Centre, and for outside journals/publications.
Undertaking projects in which the AIRE Centre is asked to take part;
Legal research for the advice service
Attending meetings/conferences/seminars on behalf of the AIRE Centre.

All Legal Work is supervised.

To be eligible you must:

Have a completed law degree/GDL or equivalent
Have a good understanding of the areas of Law in which the AIRE Centre works (EU Free movement, EU Migration, asylum etc)
Have a good standard of written and spoken English.

All of our internships are unpaid; however, we do cover up to £12 of expenses for travel and lunch for the days worked at the office.

To apply, please send the following:

Completed application and equality monitoring form
A copy of your recent CV
An example of a legal piece you have written (approximately 500)

Applications will not be considered unless all the documents requested are completed

Email your completed application to: [email protected], or by post to:

The AIRE Centre

Fifth Floor

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Charles Clore House

17 Russell Square

London

WC1B 5DR

DEADLINE: Midnight FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2020

Interviews will be held in March 2019 (tbc)

Telephone/Skype interviews can be conducted for overseas candidates

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