2026 Fall Undergraduate Intern

Center for Disability & Elder Law

Posted about 2 months ago

Internship

Chicago, Illinois

Hybrid

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The intern will assist with various legal practice areas including estate planning, guardianship, and housing law. Responsibilities include interviewing candidates, reviewing documents, and drafting simple legal correspondence.

Qualifications

You are a student interested in Elder Law, Disability Law, Public Interest, or Housing Law. You will gain experience in various practice areas and develop skills in interviewing, document review, and drafting simple legal documents. CDEL will provide complete training and supervision for this primarily remote internship.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Estate planning

Guardianship

Housing

Collections

Financial Abuse

Family Law

Interviewing candidates for service

Document review

Drafting simple documents and correspondence

Job Description

Center for Disability & Elder Law

Undergraduate Remote Intern

The Center for Disability & Elder Law (CDEL) hosts Undergraduate Interns each academic year and during summer months.  For Fall 2026, the Undergraduate Intern will participate in a primarily remote internship.  CDEL will provide complete training and supervision of the student. 

Participation in in-person activities is wholly voluntary and not required for participation in the Undergraduate Remote Internship.

The internship is unpaid.  CDEL works with schools offering externship credit and there may be funding options available for interns through schools or outside agencies.  CDEL will work with students and their advisors in setting up the internship.

The student will gain experience in the following practice areas and develop the stated skills:

Practice Areas

Skills

Estate planning

Guardianship

Housing

Collections

Financial Abuse

Family Law

Interviewing candidates for service

Document review

Drafting simple documents and correspondence

Special projects as needed

Students interested in Elder Law, Disability Law, Public Interest and Housing law are specifically invited to apply. 

CDEL is an equal opportunity employer.  We are a welcoming community that engages, encourages and empowers those who are members of underrepresented communities.  We are a dedicated advocate for our clients who hold many diverse identities and experiences, across race, color, sex, age, religion, class, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge, source of income, housing status and gender identity. We believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized and underrepresented communities to apply for this position.  We also encourage you to read our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement available on our website.

Applications are considered as they are received.

Center for Disability & Elder Law

The Center for Disability & Elder Law (CDEL) was founded to provide legal services to low income residents of Cook County, Illinois who are either elderly or who have permanent disabilities. Studies report that more than eighty percent (80%) of all low income individuals are unable to obtain legal representation, and that all of those who live in poverty will experience at least one legal problem each year. The need for legal assistance and services on the part of these clients has increased dramatically over the past ten years and continues to grow. The number of persons in the United States over 65 is expected to double by 2030. Ten years ago almost fifty million Americans were affected daily by a disability - one out of every five. This number is also expected to increase significantly. These national trends are evident in Illinois and in Cook County as well. Dedicated volunteer attorneys from some of the largest law firms in Chicago and from firms and corporations located throughout Cook County, as well as paralegals, provide over ninety percent (90%) of the all of the legal services CDEL delivers, pro bono, to our clients. Because CDEL staff screens and creates client files, coordinates the Initiatives, and provides training and support to our volunteers, they are able to focus their valuable time on direct provision of legal services. CDEL strongly encourages the involvement of newly-licensed attorneys, as well as paralegals, law students and interns, to engage their interest and foster their commitment to pro bono public interest law early in their careers.
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