Summer Law Student volunteer position - Education Law Unit

Bronx Legal Services seeks law students to volunteer with its Education Law Unit (https://www.legalservicesnyc.org/what-we-do/practice-areas-and-projects/access-to-education) during the summer of 2025. Bronx Legal Services is the largest provider of free civil legal services in the borough, and the largest single Legal Services office in New York City. Our mission is to advance society's promise to its most vulnerable members that all are entitled to equal access to justice through our legal system.

Our Education Law Unit represents students with physical, emotional and learning disabilities, and advocates for them to receive appropriate educational placements and services. We do this through representation at impartial hearings, IEP meetings, school suspension hearings and appeals and federal litigation. We are currently working on an exciting project to foster Healing Centered Schools in the Bronx, or schools that remove punitive approaches and center trauma-responsive, culturally-responsive practices.

Summer volunteers become an integral part of the unit, and participate in all unit activities. Direct client contact is anticipated, as well as research, drafting, and participation in individual case and policy meetings. The position will be a hybrid one, involving remote work and in-person presence at our offices.