2025 Summer Intern

The Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA) at Harvard Law School seeks undergraduates to work as paid summer interns during the summer of 2025. Our team of dedicated attorney advisers and administrators provide career counseling and support throughout the academic year to thousands of law students and alumni who are interested in pursuing public service work.

While this position is not a legal internship, it offers broad exposure to the legal profession, particularly for someone contemplating a career in public interest law or exploring law school more generally. OPIA summer interns also have the opportunity to attend a speaker series geared towards our summer intern cohort that highlights a wide range of public interest law practice options.

Responsibilities: Assignments may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Perform general office duties, data entry, contributing to weekly communications, and miscellaneous project support.
• Perform maintenance in our Career Services Manager by cleaning up information on employer and contact profiles.
• Help plan, organize, and track event details for the upcoming academic year, and assist with planning for our Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows Program.
• Assist with various projects, big and small, and synthesizing information for internal and/or external use.
• Help plan our annual Virtual Public Interest Interview Program, through which more than 120 employers recruit Harvard Law School students.
• Work on redesigning and editing sections of our website, and help update and improve our online resources.
• Prepare our student appointment scheduling portal for the upcoming academic year.

Qualifications: OPIA is seeking students with a background or strong interest in public service as well as prior experience working in an administrative office environment. Interns should be enthusiastic team players who have strong attention to detail, excellent organizational and writing skills, the ability to self-start on projects, and facility in prioritizing competing deadlines effectively. A can-do attitude, ability to manage up, and sense of humor go a long way! This is a great opportunity to make significant contributions to an office that relies on interns to help us best serve HLS students and alumni.

Familiarity with Microsoft Office, Office 365, PC computer platforms, and some work in database systems is important. Knowledge of Canva, Microsoft Teams and WordPress would be helpful, or experience working on websites generally. 

Applicants are encouraged to list all employment experience on their resume.

We will consider qualified rising juniors and seniors and, in some instances, students expecting to graduate in the summer of 2025 or after the fall 2025 term, depending on their availability, with preference given to juniors. We may consider sophomores with a considerable amount of experience. The internship is not open to first year students or students entering or enrolled in law school. 

Summer interns are paid positions: $15.00/hr., 35 hrs./week for 10 weeks of work (with an opportunity to increase the number of weeks, should the intern’s schedule allow). While the start date can be flexible, we prefer our interns to start in late May/early June. Our preference will be for candidates who can work fully in-person in Cambridge, MA.