J.R. CLIFFORD – FRANKLIN CLECKLEY FELLOWSHIP

Mountain State Justice offers a $5,000 paid summer fellowship for high school, college, and graduate students who are Black, Indigenous, and other people of color interested in social justice advocacy. We are currently accepting applications for summer 2025.

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LEGAL INTERNS/EXTERNS

Mountain State Justice is currently accepting applications for legal interns for summer 2025 who have completed their first or second year of law school to work in our Morgantown or Charleston offices. Applications are due January 31, 2025. Although interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, decisions for fulfilling the summer 2025 internships will be made no earlier than February 14, 2025.

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OTHER INTERNS

Mountain State Justice hosts other types of interns, including Masters of Public Administration and Bachelors/Masters of Social Work interns for course credit. If you are not a law student, but are interested in an internship with MSJ, please contact Lindsey Jacobs, Advocacy & Access Program Director, at (304)344-3144 or lindsey(at)msjlaw.org.

POST-GRADUATE LEGAL FELLOWSHIPS

Mountain State Justice sponsors rising 3L students and recent law school graduates who are interested in applying for post-graduate fellowships such as those hosted by Skadden, Equal Justice Works, and Justice Catalyst. While we welcome your project ideas, we are particularly interested in sponsoring fellows with interest in developing projects in the following areas:
(1) The criminalization of poverty across West Virginia communities, including ordinances banning panhandling and camping, which target unhoused populations. This project could also address court fines and fees that disproportionately impact poor West Virginians.
(2) Pushing back on the de-funding of public schools in West Virginia. This project could include developing litigation under the West Virginia state constitution, and/or partnering with fellow organizations on strategies to challenge school vouchers.
(3) Representation of low-income clients facing increased lot rent in manufactured housing parks, resulting from the sale of such parks to out-of-state investment corporations.

Anyone seeking to pursue a post-graduate fellowship with Mountain State Justice for the fall of 2026, should reach out as soon as possible, but no later than June 30, 2025. Potential fellows should contact Lydia Milnes, Deputy Director, at (304) 326-0188 or by email at recruiting(at)msjlaw.org