Students will work with lawyers in ProBAR’s Harlingen office for one week over winter break. Students may conduct legal research relevant to asylum applications, prepare asylum applications and other documents for ProBAR service recipients, or both.
Organization
South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR)
ProBAR is a project of the American Bar Association that provides legal information, pro se assistance, and pro bono representation to thousands of immigrants and asylum-seekers in remote South Texas each year.
Project Details
- Project Start Date
January 11-15, 2021
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 30-40 hours over 1 week
- Training
- Monday, January 11 (morning); additional training and supervision will be provided by ProBAR staff throughout the internship on an as-needed basis
- Skills used
- Document preparation/review; legal research/writing
- Project location
- Virtual
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 4
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- The ability to speak and understand Spanish at a level adequate to communicate with clients in Spanish is required for approximately one-half of volunteer openings; if you meet this language requirement please select a “Spanish speaker” ticket on Eventbrite
- To Apply
- Register at https://probarpbj21.eventbrite.com ; if you speak an understand Spanish at a level adequate to communicate with clients in Spanish, please select a “Spanish speaker” ticket on Eventbrite