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2025 Summer Internship Program

New York, New York, United States

OVERVIEW

Practising Law Institute (PLI) educates and informs lawyers and other professionals with innovative programs, publications, podcasts, and additional resources. With a sterling reputation developed over 90 years, PLI is a trusted source of professional development and knowledge for the legal community. A nonprofit organization, PLI is also known for its dedication to providing pro bono training and resources to ensure access to justice. PLI’s client base includes a large array of prestigious law firms, corporations, and government agencies. We are also proud to have recently been named one of the “Brands That Matter” by Fast Company. More information about PLI may be found on our website www.pli.edu.

PLI 2025 Summer Internship Program 

ABOUT US 

At PLI, we educate lawyers and allied professionals with innovative programs, world-class faculty, publications, podcasts, and resources that make us the most trusted source of professional development and knowledge for the legal community. With a sterling reputation developed over our 92-year track record of excellence, we are also known for our dedication to pro bono training and resources that help ensure access to justice. 

The impactful work of our colleagues and teams, along with our unique culture of collaboration and respect, has garnered PLI recognition from the legal education industry as well as social impact organizations. Most recently, we are proud to be named one of the “Brands That Matter” by Fast Company. More information may be found at www.pli.edu.  

 

ABOUT PLI INTERNSHIPS 

This is an exciting time to be a part of PLI: our renowned programs and services continue to evolve as we adapt to present and future customer and societal needs. We are seeking Summer Interns to join us in New York from June 9 to August 11 to support this important work through one of the following internships: 

 

Information Technology Internship 

PLI’s Information Technology department evaluates, recommends and implements solutions that enable work across the enterprise, through internal consultation, software development, network operations, product management support, multimedia solutions, and cybersecurity.  

To bolster these efforts, the Information Technology Intern will: 

  • Conduct an inventory of SaaS applications in use throughout the organization, interview key stakeholders to learn about their tool utilization, and analyze their level of oversight, access control gaps, and costs. 
  • Draft potential governance practices to support innovation while reducing risk. 
  • Present findings and process improvement recommendations to key stakeholders. 
  • Support projects including data entry, KPI analysis, and workstream coordination.  

Through this experience, the intern will learn about effective SaaS application oversight and risk mitigation, site reliability engineering principles, cybersecurity frameworks and cloud technology. Candidates best suited for this role: rising college seniors or graduate students in Information Systems, business, public policy, cybersecurity, or related academic program. Prior experience with data analysis tools will enable success in this internship. 

 

Digital Archives Internship 

PLI’s Legal Information and Electronic Publishing department drives the strategy, creation, and ongoing development of PLI PLUS (our proprietary online research platform), supports print and electronic subscriptions, while also managing our various legal library relationships.  

To bolster these efforts, the Taxonomy Intern will:  

  • Expand our digital archives by adding archival publications to PLI PLUS and conducting Quality Assurance testing to ensure the accuracy of content uploaded. 
  • Add metadata to older PLI content, specifically the PLI taxonomy 
  • Assist the Patent Office Exam Course program by using databases and internal systems to update purchaser contact information.  

Through this experience, the intern will learn the basics of digitizing older materials, taxonomies, legal publishing and research. Candidates best suited for this role: rising college seniors or graduate students in a Library Information Sciences academic program. 

 

Marketing Internship 

PLI’s Marketing & Communications team works to strengthen PLI’s visibility and reputation in the marketplace by setting the strategic and creative direction of the organization’s branding, messaging, and promotion efforts, and by orchestrating campaigns that advance PLI’s products, services, and mission in ways that are compelling and relevant to our different audience segments.  

To bolster these efforts, the Marketing Intern will: 

  • Study registration patterns to identify upcoming live programs to promote as on-demand versions. Liaise with program attorneys to identify potentially interesting program segments and determine content worth promoting after it runs. 
  • Use segment video from multimedia and collaborate with art and content production team to cut video, apply PLI branding, and export short videos for program snippets. 
  • Support posting on social channels. 
  • Support the Marketing SOP Manual project by gathering existing resources; interviewing stakeholders; conducting a resource gap analysis; and developing an SOP outline. 

Through this experience, the intern will learn about data-driven content targeting and prioritization practices, as well as novel video editing techniques. Candidates best suited for this role: rising college seniors or graduate students in Marketing, Communications, English, Information Systems, or Law school students. 

 

Human Resources Internship 

PLI’s Human Resources team brings the organization’s people and culture strategy to life by recruiting and hiring great talent into PLI, providing coaching and professional development, developing policies and procedures that comply with employment and benefit laws, managing performance and talent growth processes, and administering total rewards that include best-in-class employee benefits, retirement savings plans, and compensation analysis.  

To bolster these efforts, the HR Intern will: 

  • Support job-evaluation project using Point Factor Analysis, and stakeholder inputs. 
  • Review and update policies that address new workplace realities, to ensure they reflect organizational needs, external best-practices, and readiness for legal counsel review. 
  • Assess potential LMS platforms to evaluate their suitability for PLI workforce learning.  
  • Organize active and legacy files to comply with record retention requirements. 
  • Support ad hoc research, data entry, coordination, and employee communications. 
  • Assist recruitment team with interview scheduling by coordinating virtual or onsite interviews with candidates and Hiring Managers for open jobs via Greenhouse ATS 

Through this internship experience, the intern will learn about job and compensation analysis methods, policy development, and the use of decision-making tools. Candidates best suited for this role: rising college seniors or graduate students in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Psychology, Communications, or related academic program. 

 

SELECTION CRITERIA 

In addition to offering practical, real-world work experience, PLI Interns receive a salary of $18 per hour. To qualify for a PLI Internship, applicants must meet the following requirements: 

  • Academic standing as one of the following: 
  • Rising Senior in undergraduate college program 
  • 2025 college graduate from an accredited undergraduate program 
  • 2025 law school student (or recent graduate) 
  • Available to participate in the PLI Internship Program: 
  • Throughout the full 9 weeks (from June 9 to August 11) 
  • Able to work Monday-Thursday from 9am-5pm and Fridays from 9am`12:30pm (31.50 hours per week), at PLI’S NY location (1177 Avenue of the Americas). 
  • Technology proficiency in various applications: 
  • Microsoft Office 365 suite of productivity applications 
  • Familiarity with department-specific software (where required or preferred) 
  • Ability to provide recommendation letters from school and/or previous employer. 

 

TO APPLY 

Please respond to this job post by submitting your resume and cover letter online. Only candidates who provide a cover letter that identifies a specific PLI Internship interest will be considered.  Due to the volume of applications, we will not be able to respond to all candidates who apply. 

 

Practising Law Institute is an equal opportunity employer.  More information about PLI can be found at www.pli.edu. Thank you for your interest in working at PLI. 

EEO STATEMENT

PLI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any candidate based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other factor protected by federal, state or local law.
 

Only those applicants who meet our requirements for this position will be contacted.

Practising Law Institute is an equal opportunity employer. Click here to learn more.

 

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