Asian Outreach Unit Legal Internship
Asian Outreach Unit, Greater Boston Legal Services
The Asian Outreach Unit (AOU) of Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) uses a community lawyering model to provide linguistically and culturally appropriate services to Asian immigrant clients. Partnering with community based groups, AOU supports and strengthens the impact of community organizing through direct legal services, advocacy, legislative campaigns, and impact litigation. AOU conducts outreach and intake weekly at community based sites. Focusing on areas where the Asian community faces multiple barriers accessing justice, AOU represents individuals and groups in cases involving immigration, housing and displacement, employment, family violence, voting rights, and public benefits. Past successes include securing bilingual ballots in Chinese and Vietnamese in Boston, litigating a class action on behalf of 300 supermarket workers seeking to enforce employment laws, and supporting Chinatown’s efforts to acquire land for community use. AOU recognizes that empowering people and communities is critical to building effective cross-cultural and racial social movements.
AOU internships expose undergraduate and law students to legal issues faced by local Asian immigrant communities and trains interns in a variety of legal areas. Student interns assist and participate in community-based outreach and intake, client interviews (using clients’ native languages or with an interpreter), legal representation, and development of community legal educational materials. Student interns conduct legal research and writing on a broad range of subject matter. Cantonese, Mandarin, or Vietnamese language ability is a plus.
Interns would commit to a full-time schedule (35 hours/week) for 10 weeks from Monday, June 4 to Friday, August 10. Please submit all applications to jobs@gbls.org with the subject title, “AOU Summer Internship.”
Deadline for submission is January 26, 2018. If you have questions about the internship, email ptran@gbls.org.
The Asian Outreach Unit (AOU) of Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) uses a community lawyering model to provide linguistically and culturally appropriate services to Asian immigrant clients. Partnering with community based groups, AOU supports and strengthens the impact of community organizing through direct legal services, advocacy, legislative campaigns, and impact litigation. AOU conducts outreach and intake weekly at community based sites. Focusing on areas where the Asian community faces multiple barriers accessing justice, AOU represents individuals and groups in cases involving immigration, housing and displacement, employment, family violence, voting rights, and public benefits. Past successes include securing bilingual ballots in Chinese and Vietnamese in Boston, litigating a class action on behalf of 300 supermarket workers seeking to enforce employment laws, and supporting Chinatown’s efforts to acquire land for community use. AOU recognizes that empowering people and communities is critical to building effective cross-cultural and racial social movements.
AOU internships expose undergraduate and law students to legal issues faced by local Asian immigrant communities and trains interns in a variety of legal areas. Student interns assist and participate in community-based outreach and intake, client interviews (using clients’ native languages or with an interpreter), legal representation, and development of community legal educational materials. Student interns conduct legal research and writing on a broad range of subject matter. Cantonese, Mandarin, or Vietnamese language ability is a plus.
Interns would commit to a full-time schedule (35 hours/week) for 10 weeks from Monday, June 4 to Friday, August 10. Please submit all applications to jobs@gbls.org with the subject title, “AOU Summer Internship.”
Deadline for submission is January 26, 2018. If you have questions about the internship, email ptran@gbls.org.