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DIVERSITY CORPORATE SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 2024
ACC GREATER PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER
2024 DIVERSITY CORPORATE SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INFORMATION
The ACC Greater Philadelphia Chapter is sponsoring its seventeenth annual Diversity Corporate Summer Internship Program, aimed at increasing diversity within corporate legal departments. Applicants meeting the criteria identified below are eligible to apply to participate in the program. This opportunity is open to students who will be 2Ls or 3Ls in Fall 2024.
This full-time, eight-week long summer internship program will commence on or about June 3, 2024. Interns will work during regular business hours of the sponsoring company’s legal department to gain substantive in-house experience in corporate practice. At a minimum, each intern will be compensated a total of $8,000.00 for participation in the program, though a company may elect to compensate an individual intern at a higher rate.
Student applicants will be initially screened by the ACC Greater Philadelphia Diversity Committee; selection of candidates moving forward will be based on the totality of a student’s application materials. These selected candidates will then be referred to sponsoring companies for interviews. Placement will be, for the most part, random with the goal of providing sponsoring companies with a diverse slate of candidates (though the Committee will do its best to accommodate a student’s areas of stated interest and geographic location when practicable). The number of interviews for each candidate will depend on the number of qualified applicants and the number of sponsoring companies; in past years, it has generally been around two per candidate. Final approval and any offers are at the sole discretion of the company.
The internship program will include a mandatory pro bono volunteer event for the student participants, which aligns with the mission of our fund administrator, the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, to support and promote pro bono and community legal services. Additionally, interns and representatives from their sponsoring companies will be invited to participate in summer internship event programming throughout the summer such as an initial kick-off reception, orientation call, mid-program panel, and closing reception.
Please contact our committee chairs with any additional questions. Smita Aiyar at smita.aiyar@workday.com and Ricki Abrams at rabrams@verticalscreen.com. Please send any inquiries to BOTH Smita and Ricki.
Employer Information: For more information on the program for employers, please refer to our FAQs.
In the event that you no longer intend to participate in the program after you have submitted an application, please notify the ACCGP Office via email that you are withdrawing your application as soon as possible.
