Food & Water Watch is looking for a legal intern to join our legal team, Food & Water Justice (FWJ), and help advance our legal work to protect our food, water, and climate. The legal intern will work closely with the FWJ team, external partners, and other staff at Food & Water Watch. This position is primarily remote.
About Food & Water Watch:
Food & Water Watch 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. We work to protect people’s health, communities, and democracy from the growing destructive power of the most powerful economic interests.
About the position:
The Legal Intern will report to the Legal Director and will work with other staff on the legal team to support Food & Water Watch’s work. The Legal Intern will participate in all aspects of Food & Water Justice’s work, including legal and policy research, litigation, and administrative advocacy.
This position is remote and unpaid with flexible hours during the Fall 2026 academic semester.
Salary: Unpaid
Location: The position is fully remote; work can be performed from any U.S. time zone.
Responsibilities:
- Advance high-impact legal work. Work with FWJ attorneys and outside co-counsel to represent FWW and allies on a varied docket of cases at different points in the litigation process.
- Conduct quality research. Support our legal matters and grassroots organizing through strong caselaw research, fact-finding, and policy analysis.
- Write for a legal audience. Use legal writing skills to effectively communicate complex and technical legal issues to team attorneys and allies in memos and other written work product.
- Represent FWW. Maintain familiarity with Food & Water Watch’s priority issue campaigns and policy positions, and be comfortable professionally advocating for FWW.
- Carry out other projects as assigned. Legal interns are often asked to carry out and be proficient in other aspects of legal work, for instance, FOIA document review, record review, and discovery.
Required Qualifications:
- Applicants must have at least 1 year’s worth of credits completed from an accredited law school before fall 2026.
- 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, animal, and/or food law is strongly preferred.
- Applicants must demonstrate strong legal writing skills.
- Ability to work effectively with people of diverse racial, ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
- Excellent time management & organizational skills, and ability to balance multiple projects.
- Ability to work remotely using basic online programs, including email, Slack, and Google Docs.
Compensation: Unpaid internship
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 [email protected]. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Position open until filled. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
We will review your application, and if we feel that your knowledge, skills, and abilities are potentially a good match for our organization, we will be in contact with you.
Food & Water Watch is an equal opportunity employer who encourages applications from women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, individuals with disabilities, and other members of underrepresented groups. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.
Food & Water Watch (FWW) is committed to the health and safety of its staff members. Moreover, FWW, as an organization, promotes science-based policy. Science clearly shows that unvaccinated populations drive the spread of the coronavirus and the emergence of new variants, and that unvaccinated people are more likely to contract COVID and experience severe symptoms. Effective immediately, it is strongly recommended that prospective new staff members provide proof of vaccination.