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Legal Intern Program
If you are not a law student or lawyer, please click here to be taken to POGO's general internship page.
Do You See Your Future with A Public Interest Organization or The Federal Government or On Capitol Hill?
The Project On Government Oversight's (POGO) legal internship is a great opportunity for law students or lawyers to observe how Washington works and to protect the public interest. POGO's legal interns work in the areas of public interest and administrative law as well as with federal legislation and government contracts. Working as a POGO legal intern allows you to use the tools available to citizens to research the government and corporations and gain experience working with the Executive agencies, Members of Congress, the media, and nonprofit organizations.
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The main job of our legal interns is to work with POGO's general counsel and senior investigators in researching government spending, especially federal contract spending. This research often requires working with federal statutes and regulations, filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, attending congressional hearings, researching legislative history at the Library of Congress, and working with various government agencies and nonprofit organizations. On occasion, legal interns work with whistleblowers. Interns' research frequently results in an alert or report that is disseminated to Members of Congress, senior government officials, and the print and broadcast media. In addition to research, interns also may write opinion-editorial pieces for media release and assist in the writing and editing of testimony to be delivered at congressional hearings.
Application Deadlines
- Summer - March 15
- Fall - July 15
- Winter - October 15
- Spring - December 1
If you are considering entering the public interest or government arenas and are interested in a legal internship at POGO, please send a cover letter specifying that you're applying for the legal internship, resume, transcript (a copy is fine), and legal writing sample no longer than ten (10) pages long to:
Ms. Danni Downing
Project On Government Oversight
1100 G Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 347-1122
Fax: (202) 347-1116
Email: danni@pogo.org
The office is conveniently located right at Metro Center on the red, blue and orange subway lines.
For more information on POGO's internship program, click here.
