How Many Volunteer Opportunities Are there?
Every year over 1,800 volunteer legal interns serve in Justice components and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices throughout the country. Approximately 800 leg...
Where Are The Volunteer Opportunities located?
Justice has a presence in almost every major city in the country. There are 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and 95 U.S. Trustees’ Offices throughout the...
Who Is Eligible For Volunteer Legal Intern positions?
Any law student enrolled at least half-time, and who has completed at least one semester of law school is eligible to apply for volunteer internshi...
Is Course Credit Or A Monetary Stipend Available Through My School?
Volunteer legal internships may qualify either for course credit or as part of a law school’s work-study program. In addition, some schools sponsor...
Is It Possible to Serve More Than One Volunteer Internship?
Yes, but be careful about the timing. Working at the Department requires access to DOJ information, DOJ IT systems, and DOJ facilities. Security re...
,Settled law provides, “A contractor who acts as a volunteer
cannot be paid for extra work which is furnished on its own initiative.”1 Where the work was neither required by the contract nor necessary as part of the agreement, the contractor has performed as a volunteer in a legal sense — absent the government’s directive or other authorization — and is not entitled to recover the costs of providing the extra goods or services.2 Moreover, a government inspector has no legal duty to stop or comment upon the volunteered effort and the government may accept that work without incurring any liability to the contractor.3