While summer internship programs are common at many law firms, corporate legal departments rarely take advantage of this cost-effective source of energetic and smart labor.
There are many advantages to starting a legal internship program (LIP)–and I don’t mean sending out bright-eyed students to pick up your dry cleaning or your latte at Starbucks. When given challenging assignments, a small team of intelligent law school students can dramatically boost your department’s productivity by reviewing documents, analyzing data and conducting research–gathering state data, for example, is an excellent summer intern project. While you benefit from the economical work that is accomplished, your interns gain a unique opportunity to experience day-to-day legal life in a corporate environment.
