Mercy For Animals
Let's build a more sustainable world together by ending the exploitation of animals for food.
Animal Advocacy • Animals • Farmed Animals • Farm Animals • Animal Welfare
51 - 200
Legal Intern
September 26, 2023
🏡 Remote – New York
Mercy For Animals
Let's build a more sustainable world together by ending the exploitation of animals for food.
Animal Advocacy • Animals • Farmed Animals • Farm Animals • Animal Welfare
51 - 200
Description
• The Tommy Raskin Summer Legal Intern Program for Animals was established in 2021 to honor Tommy Raskin, a visionary animal activist. • Legal interns will help shape farmed animal protection law and gain invaluable legal advocacy experience. • Responsibilities include assisting with campaigns, litigation, policy work, and general nonprofit administration and legal compliance tasks.
Requirements
• The Raskin legal internship program is open to current law students and to lawyers with a license to practice law in at least one U.S. state.
Benefits
• Community building: Raskin legal interns will meet virtually once a week and attend educational sessions with various Mercy For Animals teams, such as investigations, campaigns, policy, and organizing, to learn about our organization’s work. • After the internship ends, Mercy For Animals will host biannual virtual meetings for the Raskin legal interns with our legal staff and members of the Raskin family to catch up on the interns’ professional lives and Mercy For Animals’ work.
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