General Counsel

Summary

Join NPR's Office of the General Counsel as a legal extern and gain valuable experience in a dynamic multimedia organization. This externship, running from September 8th, 2025, to December 5th, 2025, offers substantive opportunities to work alongside experienced attorneys. You will contribute to various practice areas, including contract review, legal research, and document preparation. The externship may be full-time or part-time, depending on school requirements, and can be performed remotely from an NPR-approved location. Successful candidates will be current law students with strong academic credentials and research/writing skills. The externship provides course credit or a school-sponsored stipend.

Requirements

Applicants must be current students in an accredited law school program (1L, 2L, 3L, or LLM)

Responsibilities

• Conduct legal research and prepare legal memoranda, contracts, and other legal documents
• Participate in client meetings, trainings, legislative and regulatory meetings, and other “outside-the-library” projects, such as observing legal proceedings and attending legal training sessions offered through the District of Columbia Bar Association or other local organizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Applicants should have relevant background experience, interest in the OGC practice areas, strong academic credentials, and legal research and writing skills
• In addition, we seek candidates with a demonstrated interest in the media, technology, and/or non-profit fields, such as participation in relevant school activities and clinics and prior legal and/or non-legal positions in applicable industries

Benefits

• This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves
• This is a for-credit or stipend-eligible externship
• Course Credit: This externship is designed to be a learning experience for law students for which school credit must be obtained. Applicants must be able to comply with their school’s requirements for academic credit
• School-sponsored Stipends: This externship may alternately be compensated through a program in which the student receives a stipend from their school for non-profit work