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2024-2025 Yearlong Legal Intern

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Chicago Transit Authority

Jan 15

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  • Internship
    Part-time
    Off-cycle Internship
  • Legal
  • Chicago

Requirements

  • Educational Experience/Requirements:
  • Preferred Major(s): Applicants must have completed their second year of law school before the internship start date.
  • Preferred Level of Education: College graduate student
  • Required enrollment status: Full-time (as defined by your academic institution) in a degree program at an accredited college or university
  • Physical Requirements:
  • The demands associated with the normal office environment
  • Must be able to comply with office policy to work on-site twice per week
  • Light physical activity, including walking outdoors and climbing stairs
  • Requires sitting for extended periods of time, standing, visual acumen, manual dexterity, and fine-motor abilities for working with computer key boards
  • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Strong Microsoft Office and computer skills
  • Good oral and written communication skills
  • Good critical thinking skills
  • Good organizational skills with attention to detail
  • Good project management skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Strong editing and drafting skills
  • Strong leadership and teamwork skills.
  • Strong analytical skills necessary for competent legal interpretation.
  • Integrity, initiative, and creativity

Responsibilities

  • In this role within the General Counsel department’s Law Department unit, interns will:
  • Practice law under the supervision of CTA attorneys (after securing a 711 license).
  • Explore and participate in a variety of practice areas of the Law Department's work, such as: taking depositions, representing the CTA in arbitrations, assisting with trials, preparing and presenting motions in court, researching and drafting legal memoranda and reviewing contracts.
  • Ability to select projects and the areas of law they would like exposure to, including torts, employment/labor, corporate, appellate/policy, workers’ compensation, and subrogation.
  • Gain an understanding of the diverse and complex legal issues addressed by the second largest transit agency in the country.
  • Perform legal research.
  • Prepare legal documents.
  • Represent the CTA in legal proceedings

Chicago Transit Authority

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1947
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Our mission is to deliver quality, affordable transit services that link people, jobs and communities. Chicago Transit Authority employees keep nearly 1.7 million people in Chicago and 35 suburbs moving every weekday. The success of our transit system is a direct result of our skilled and dedicated workforce. Our employees keep Chicago moving. So can you.