Your Part

Join Our Internship Program
If you are a second- or third-year law student, make a contribution as an intern for two years at SALIGAN. Here’s how:

  1. Attend our one-day forum. Inquire at our office on how we can conduct an introductory seminar for interns at your law school. At this forum, we’ll talk about SALIGAN’s extensive work in alternative law, what you can do and how to apply.
  2. Get interviewed. Applicants will be screened prior to selection. You’re qualified if you are willing and open to be trained as an alternative lawyer in the future, and report for work at our office at least four hours a week.
  3. Attend the orientation.  Attend the three-day orientation on the laws and issues affecting women, the labor, peasant and urban poor sectors, local governance, the environment, among other issues. And one day gender sensitivity training and another one day for the popular education training.
  4. Join our immersion program. Participate in an intensive five-day immersion program with other law students at SALIGAN’s areas of operation. You will also be attending the orientation and post-immersion seminars after your stay with the basic sectors and local communities we work with.
  5. Get a unit assignment. Interns will be assigned to a specific unit among our five programs for women, workers, farmers and fishers, the urban poor, and local governance. After six months with your assigned unit, you will possibly be transferred to another unit for another six months.
  6. Learn more outside the classroom. You’ll be exposed to continuing seminars to enhance your university knowledge and skills, and more importantly, deepen your commitment to developmental law. Also, with your assigned unit, you’ll be supervised and trained in drafting pleadings, legal consultations, and court appearances.
  7. Write and research. You’ll work on research projects on the administration of justice for the basic sectors. We want your input and insight on legal cases, our publications, and paralegal training.
  8. Teach others, too. You’ll assist us as researchers, resource speakers, facilitators, or popular educators when we conduct paralegal education seminars to grassroots leaders and members of people’s organizations.
  9. Be an advocate. We want your assistance in our advocacy campaigns. You will draft laws or ordinances, and formulate policy or position papers.