Legal Intern – Summer 2026

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  • Posted on 12 November 2025
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Job Description

Contact Email: adavis@fwwatch.org

Job Type: Internship

Office Location: Remote

Department: Legal

Food & Water Watch is a national, nonprofit membership organization that mobilizes regular people to build political power to move bold and uncompromised solutions to the most pressing food, water, and climate problems of our time. FWW uses grassroots organizing, media outreach, public education, research, policy analysis, and litigation to protect people’s health, communities, and democracy from the growing destructive power of the most powerful economic interests.

We all need safe food, clean water, and a livable climate.

Food & Water Watch is currently seeking summer law clerks for the Food & Water Justice program, the legal arm of Food & Water Watch. Law clerks will participate in all aspects of Food & Water Justice’s work, including legal and policy research, litigation, and administrative advocacy. Legal interns will support work on all Food & Water Watch’s priority issues, including factory farming, climate change, water pollution, and open government.

Applicants should be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and committed to the social and environmental justice mission of Food & Water Watch. Coursework or clinical experience with administrative, environmental, energy, and/or food law is strongly preferred.

This is a full-time, remote, and unpaid position for 10-12 weeks during the summer of 2026.

How to Apply:

Please send a cover letter, resume, unofficial transcript, three references, and a short (5-10 pages) legal writing sample as a single PDF to Alex Davis, at adavis@fwwatch.org. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

We will review your application and if we feel that your knowledge, skills & abilities are potentially a good match for our organization, we will be in contact with you. Food & Water Watch strives for a diverse work environment and encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and individuals with disabilities to apply.

Applications will be received until this position is filled.

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