Employment Opportunities
Looking for a job, career, internship, clerkship or fellowship in animal law?
The Animal Legal Defense Fund offers a list of our current employment opportunities plus additional opportunities at various law firms and non-profit organizations across the country.
If you are a law firm or non-profit organizations, you can submit your opportunity and we will consider it for publication on aldf.org.
Opportunities at the Animal Legal Defense Fund
Legal Intern
Animal Outlook
Animal Outlook is seeking law students for Fall, Spring, and Summer Legal Advocacy Internships. Animal Outlook (formerly known as Compassion Over Killing) is a national nonprofit organization with a 30-year history of exposing, preventing, and ending cruelty to animals in agriculture.
Our Summer Legal Advocacy Internships are full-time, and Semester Internships can be part- or full-time. They are remote and unpaid, though interns may receive academic credit or external funding if their law schools permit.
Legal Advocacy Interns will work on litigation, research, and other legal projects aimed at protecting farmed animals. Each Intern will likely work with a variety of legal claims, such as claims based on state criminal anti-cruelty laws, administrative law, false advertising and unfair competition laws, tort liability, and corporate law. Interns will have opportunities to research new projects and to assist with ongoing projects in close collaboration with Animal Outlook’s attorneys.
Excellent research and writing skills are required, as is an interest in exploring novel ways to use the law to protect animals. Candidates with a background and interest in animal protection are preferred. Internships are available only to current law students.
Application Instructions:
To apply, interested law students should create a single pdf file containing, in the following order, a cover letter, resume, writing sample, list of three references, and law school transcript.
Email the pdf to Animal Outlook’s Legal Advocacy Program: legal@animaloutlook.org.
Applications are considered on a rolling basis. Please specify in your cover letter if you are interested in a Summer Internship, Semester Internship, or both.