Job Title
Criminal Defense Practice Investigative Intern - Summer 2023
Deadline: Open Until Filled, Unless Date Is Posted Below (Deadline is 11:59 PM EST For Date Listed)
Mar 1, 2023
Location
Manhattan - Criminal Defense Practice Office
Job Description
The Summer 2023 Investigator Internship is a voluntary, 10-week (June 1, 2023 – August 11, 2023), full-time, in-person, intensive, hands-on program. You are partnered with another investigative interns to conduct field investigations throughout New York City while carrying your own misdemeanor caseload. We will provide you with the tools to succeed and help every New Yorkers in need. The internship begins with robust mandatory trainings in Criminal Defenses, Interviewing Techniques, Constitutional Law, Ethics, Memorializing Interviews, Social Media Research, Discovery Reform, and much more. We have internships spots available in: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island Trial Offices, the Homicide Defense Task Force Unit, Wrongful Conviction Unit, Parole Revocation Unit, and the Criminal Appeals Bureau. These positions require considerable initiative, resourcefulness, creativity, drive, and a strong commitment to criminal defense work.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Locate and interview complainants, witnesses, defendants, and other relevant parties
- Investigate crime scenes and other relevant locations
- Document scenes (via photographs, video recording, diagrams or measurements)
- Create crime scene sketches/diagrams/maps
- Prepare written summaries of investigation results via our case management system
- Conduct background checks, internet research, and social media investigations
- Accompany defense players to crime scenes and relevant locations and assist in their cases
- Locate and secure surveillance footage from varying locations and buildings
- Communicate daily with defense team
- Provide accurate, detailed reports on investigations; as well as maintaining other necessary documents (e.g., chain of custody, witness statements, investigation summaries, etc.)
- Travel within assigned borough as well as out-of-borough via mass transit
- Communicate with other members of staff/team to effectively analyze and discuss cases
- Review detailed and voluminous discovery
- Locate clients in-person, as needed
- Serve subpoenas, motions and other legal documents, as needed
Required Documents
Please submit these documents as a single combined PDF when you apply via the LAS (Legal Aid Society) Recruitment Portal.
- COVER LETTER
- RESUME
Requirements
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students in good standing
- Commitment to racially and socioeconomically oppressed communities
- Demonstrated interest in indigent defense
- Ability to work collegially and collaboratively with all members of the staff
- Strong writing, research and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and think critically
- No remote investigative positions available
- This is a voluntary position
- No stipend available
- Metro Cards will be provided for field work
