Investigative Internship
Location: Washington, DC
Closing Date: July 1, 2024
The Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia (FPD) is hiring Investigative Interns. We hire investigative interns for three terms per year: Fall, Spring and Summer. Investigative interns get hands-on experience assisting teams of FPD attorneys, investigators, and paralegals to meet our mission of providing a quality legal defense to indigent clients in the District of Columbia. Investigative interns gain hands-on experience with trials, evidentiary hearings and sentencings in federal court. Their main duties include conducting background investigations on witnesses, reviewing and summarizing discovery, interviewing witnesses, gathering records and client social histories, conducting crime scene investigations, serving subpoenas, and a variety of other tasks needed to provide FPD clients with zealous legal advocacy.
If you are interested in applying for an investigative internship, please submit a cover letter, resume, and a list of three professional or academic references combined into a single PDF via email to:
Tyrees Smith
Investigator
Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia
625 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Ste. 550
Washington, D.C. 20004
Email: tyrees_smith@fd.org
Qualifications: We accept undergraduate students and recent graduates who are passionate about providing exceptional legal advocacy for FPD clients, are skilled at working independently and in teams, show attention to detail and have a strong work ethic as well as strong written and verbal communication skills.
Internship deadlines are as follows:
Spring 2024 - due November 1, 2023
Summer 2024 - due February 1, 2024
Fall 2024 - due July 1, 2024
Applications are reviewed and offers are made on a rolling basis.
FPD Internships are unpaid, but we encourage interns to seek funding from their schools or from outside fellowships and we support these applications as needed. This internship is in-person in the District of Columbia. We ask that investigative interns be willing to commit at least ten weeks to this internship.
