Pertinent Information
Regarding 2024 Atlanta Bar Association
Summer Law Internship
Program for High School Students
Website: www.abaslip.blogspot.com
Facebook: Atlanta Bar
Association Summer Law Internship Program (SLIP 32)
We are grateful for your interest
in the 2024 Internship Program! This is
a rigorous, all-in program. Please note if you have any conflicts during
the period of May 29, 2024 to July 19, 2024, you should not apply. We
traditionally have significantly more applicants than available spots. Absences for study abroad programs, family
reunions, sports competitions, graduation trips, long weekends, and the like
are not allowed. You are all-in or you are not. Only students who are members
of the classes of 2024 and 2025 are eligible to apply. Freshmen and Sophomores, Classes of 2026 and
2027, are ineligible to apply.
1. The
Summer of 2024 will be the thirty-second (32nd) straight Summer the Atlanta Bar
Association will conduct its Summer Law Internship Program for High School
Students. Applications will be available
on or before February 9, 2024, on the Intern Program's website: www.abaslip.blogspot.com.
Completed applications must be emailed or postmarked by Thursday, March 21, 2024. For additional information, please also see
our Facebook page at Atlanta Bar Association Summer Law Internship
Program.
2. We
so wish we had a spot for every applicant.
Unfortunately, however, spots are limited. We hope to have 35+ internships available in 2024. If you are not selected this year, we welcome
you to apply next year. During the
Summer Law Internship Program's first thirty-one years over 908 paid
Internships have been made available to Atlanta's youth.
3. The
2024 Summer Law Internship Program will run from May 29, 2024, to July 19, 2024. There will be four mandatory
orientations tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, May 29; Friday, May 31;
Monday, June 3; and Friday, June 7. The
pay will be $2,000.00 (total) for the six weeks ($333 per week). If you Intern at a law firm or corporation,
you will be paid a stipend by your host.
If you are a Public Intern, your internship is sponsored, and you will
be paid a stipend by the Atlanta Bar Foundation.
4.
This
is a rigorous, all-in program. The
Atlanta Bar Association Summer Law Internship Program is designed to achieve
four goals:
(a)
to
provide a valuable work experience;
(b)
to
further the students' understanding of the law;
(c)
to
provide a mentor relationship for the students; and
(d)
to
increase diversity in the legal system.
5. Interns
are not allowed to have any second jobs, band practices, sports practices or
otherwise that conflict with or impact your internship. (Every year we have prospective Interns
request that they be allowed to miss mandatory Intern events due to conflicts,
have different dates for their Internships, etc. The Intern Program dates are set. You are all-in or you are not.)
6. Each
applicant will be required to participate in an in-person interview at a
location to be determined. We
tentatively anticipate conducting interviews on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Please check the Intern website for possible
changes. You are required to be
appropriately attired (professional).
More detailed information will be provided on the Intern Program's
website (www.abaslip.blogspot.com).
As we will have a large number of students to interview, please bring
something to occupy yourself while you wait, i.e., homework, a book, etc.
7. Each
year, we have a Kick-Off Breakfast at the beginning of the program for Interns
and hosts. We expect the 2024 Kick-Off
Breakfast will be on Friday, June 14, 2024, at 7:30 a.m.
8. If
you have any conflict (i.e., study abroad, educational trips, sports
competitions, leadership camps, etc.) during the period of May 29 – July 19, 2024,
you should not apply.
9. At
the end of the Intern Program, we have an Intern Appreciation Breakfast for the
Interns and their families. The 2024
Intern Appreciation Breakfast has yet to be scheduled but is typically the last
day of the program, projected to be Friday, July 19, 2024, at 7:30 a.m.
10.
Potential
interns who are graduating this coming Spring (Class of 2024) must schedule any
college orientation, so it does not conflict with the Intern Program.
11. We
will have mandatory weekly All Intern Meetings (“AIMs”) during the Internship
Program at 5:30 p.m. on dates to be determined. These AIMs are not optional and
cannot be missed due to, for example, sports, games or practices, summer workouts,
second jobs, babysitting, family birthdays, or the like. Usually, they are in the middle of the week,
on Wednesday, and run until 7:30 p.m. We
will typically have a guest speaker each week.
During our weekly meetings, we will regularly have Progress Tests to
assess your knowledge of what you are learning.
Failure to be prepared for these AIMs and Progress Tests will subject
you to being released from the Intern Program.
12. In
addition to the important work component of this program, there is also an
educational component. We will study
topical legal issues. Interns will have
written "Enrichment" each week during the program that should not
take more than thirty minutes to an hour to complete. You are required to do your own work. In addition, Interns will be required to do a
750-word typed essay on a United States Supreme Court decision as part of the
annual Terrence Croft Essay Competition.
13. If
you are selected, you are required to be responsible, accountable, and
professional at all times and in everything you do.
14. We
have had applicants from as far north as Forsyth County and as far south as
Henry County. As the internships are primarily located inside the Perimeter,
with a heavy concentration in Downtown and Midtown Atlanta, you may have a
lengthy commute depending on where you live.
The Internship Program does not reimburse commuting expenses.
15. There
is a Dress and Grooming Code that will be required to be followed or you will
be subject to being released from the Internship Program.
16.
The
Internship Program is not for every student.
Over the years Interns have been released early from the Internship
Program or are not invited to reapply for: not being prepared, not being on time, not being
professional, not wearing proper attire, and/or not demonstrating appropriate
maturity.
17.
We
will expect your best in everything you do, and you should demand no less of
yourself.
18.
If
you give less than your best, do not follow the rules, fail to prepare for an Orientation
or an AIM, perform unacceptably on a Progress Test, or find it more important
to be on your phone, have anything less than a great attitude, or are rude or
disrespectful to a fellow Intern, you will be released from the Summer Law
Internship Program prior to its conclusion.
19. Students
selected for the 2024 Intern Program will be posted on the website of the
Atlanta Bar Association Summer Law Internship Program on Thursday, May 2, 2024,
by 8:00 p.m. (www.abaslip.blogspot.com.)
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