FEDERAL STUDENT INTERN LITIGATION PROGRAM
The Office of the United States Attorney, Eastern District of Tennessee, sponsors a Federal Student Intern Litigation Program for all qualified students enrolled in accredited law schools. The Intern Litigation Program is designed to involve the student in every phase of the federal litigation experience in both civil and criminal cases. Students may participate on a part-time or full-time basis during the summer. Students at the University of Tennessee may participate during the school year for eight to fifteen hours a week.
The Intern Litigation Program attempts to provide the student with an opportunity to:
- experience the investigative/pretrial stage of criminal prosecutions, working with agents of the FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS, Secret Service, and other agencies;
- experience civil pretrial conferences, depositions, settlement negotiations, etc.;
- observe and assist in all types of federal court proceedings, including matters before U.S. magistrate judges, district court judges, and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; and
- research and draft a variety of litigation-related documents such as district court motions and memoranda of law, indictments, in-house memoranda, and civil discovery documents.
Third-year or rising third-year students may be certified by the Tennessee Supreme Court under its student practice rule and authorized to represent the United States in district court or before a United States magistrate in various proceedings under the supervision of the responsible Assistant U.S. Attorney.
The Intern Litigation Program generally operates on a pro bono basis. However, since the U.S. Attorney's Office is a public interest organization, student participants have qualified for public interest grants and academic or extracurricular law school credit where available.
Finally, all aspects of the Student Intern Litigation Program are directed by the coordinating Assistant U.S. Attorney Trey Hamilton and Paralegal Barbara Brukiewa.
Inquiries and resumes should be submitted to:
Trey Hamilton, AUSA
Attn: Intern Litigation Program
U.S. Attorney's Office
800 Market Street, Suite 211
Knoxville, TN 37902
You may also contact Mr. Hamilton by email at trey.hamilton@usdoj.gov or call him at (865) 545-4167, ext. 323.