Law Clerk Opportunities
in Public Interest Law:

The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty is seeking law students to clerk with us on various legal projects during the summer.  Law clerks may assist Center attorneys in several current program areas, including: farm workers’ and day laborers’ rights; healthcare for the indigent, homelessness, access to public benefits, and immigrants’ rights.  Activities in which fellows and externs typically engage

• Supporting Center attorneys actively engaged in civil rights litigation.
• Providing advocacy on poverty law issues in administrative forums and community meetings.
• Performing legal research into issues that effect homeless, poor, and low-income communities.
• Working with community organizations by providing training, legal research or advocacy support.
•  Educating low-income people about their rights, accessing public benefit programs, and other poverty law issues.

There are four ways to clerk at the Center on Law and Poverty:  1) our Seth Montgomery Fellowship offers a stipend of $3,600 for ten weeks of full-time work;  
2)  the Center is an approved work-study site for UNM, so eligible students could receive an hourly wage;  3) complete an externship at the Center and receive several credit hours at the UNM School of Law (speak to the UNM Law Clinic Director for more information);  4) most law clerks receive no stipend but clerk at the Center for the experience of working with excellent lawyers on meaningful issues.