Summer Intern - 2027
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California Appellate Project
San Francisco, CA, US
Summary
Interns will provide comprehensive support to attorneys representing indigent clients on death row, including legal research, writing, and investigative review. They will also assist in organizing litigation materials, analyzing trial testimony, and drafting legal memoranda.
Job Description
California Appellate Project is committed to cultivating a new generation of criminal defense attorneys. CAP recruits a small number of students for the summer of 2027. Under the supervision of an experienced post-conviction attorney, interns will help provide documentary support, record collection, investigative review, research, writing, and technical assistance to counsel who are appointed to represent indigent persons incarcerated on California’s death row.
Summer interns at CAP work full-time for 10 weeks. During this time CAP provides a week of intense legal training in addition assigning legal projects related to California death penalty cases. Remote Access Internships may be available.
Examples of past work assignments that Summer Interns at CAP have completed includes:
* Researching life chronology, family history, and genealogy.
Analyzing witness lists and trial testimony; create lists of additional witnesses.
* Researching and assessing the validity of expert testimony presented at trial.
* Summarizing the penalty phase of a trial transcript.
* Collecting and organizing litigation resource materials.
* Evaluating crime scene evidence.
* Reviewing trial testimony, witness statements, and police reports for discrepancies.
* Writing an authoritative article on the media gag rule and outsider access to prisoners on death row.
* Assisting in preparing litigation outlines and chronologies.
* Drafting memorandum on admissibility of evidence of gang affiliation.
CAP is committed to cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. For interested applicants, send us a cover letter, resume, a writing sample, and the names and contact information for 2 references who are familiar with your work. California Appellate Project is committed to cultivating a new generation of criminal defense attorneys. CAP recruits a small number of students for the summer of 2027. We ask internship applicants to relate how their experience, training and work history have prepared them to understand and work well with the clients we serve and their communities.
The California Appellate Project in San Francisco (CAP-SF) is a non-profit corporation established by the State Bar of California in 1983 as a legal resource center to implement the constitutional right to counsel for indigent persons facing execution. CAP serves the largest population of condemned individuals in the country and is funded primarily by a contract with the Judicial Council of California.
CAP-SF assists private counsel appointed by the California Supreme Court to represent indigent defendants in capital cases challenging their convictions and sentences on direct appeal and through habeas corpus proceedings, and provides them with professional training and litigation resource materials. In addition, CAP-SF assists unrepresented death row inmates by collecting and preserving evidence for their post-conviction claims, and by providing advocacy as needed during the period of incarceration before counsel is appointed. CAP-SF also consults, at the request of the judiciary, on policy matters regarding indigent defense representation in capital cases.
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Law Practice
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
The California Appellate Project in San Francisco (CAP-SF) is a non-profit corporation established by the State Bar of California in 1983 as a legal resource center to implement the constitutional right to counsel for indigent persons facing execution. CAP serves the largest population of condemned individuals in the country and is funded primarily by a contract with the Judicial Council of California.
CAP-SF assists private counsel appointed by the California Supreme Court to represent indigent defendants in capital cases challenging their convictions and sentences on direct appeal and through habeas corpus proceedings, and provides them with professional training and litigation resource materials. In addition, CAP-SF assists unrepresented death row inmates by collecting and preserving evidence for their post-conviction claims, and by providing advocacy as needed during the period of incarceration before counsel is appointed. CAP-SF also consults, at the request of the judiciary, on policy matters regarding indigent defense representation in capital cases.
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Law Practice
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
