Internships
Interships
Doing pre-law, underway with your law degree, preparing for admission?
Legal practice experience at NAAFLS is an incredible learning opportunity to contribute and learn in an Aboriginal community controlled legal service.
You can contribute by using and developing your knowledge and skills. You are likely to:
- Work with case workers and solicitors assisting clients
- Help draft court documents
- Help with research on client matters
- Go to court with legal teams
- Be involved in law reform
- Help with community legal education
- Help withcommunity awareness events
NAAFLS aims is to promote the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal people from violence and abuse within relationships. We work with over 40 remote communities across the Top End, including Arnhem Land, Tiwi Islands, Big Rivers and the Victoria Daly region.
Types of legal practice experience and intern opportunities available at NAAFLS:
- Volunteer
- Coursework credit
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
You can make a general inquiry by emailing [email protected] or if you are ready, please complete the relevant parts of the application form below.
From Past Interns
NAAFLS is a close-knit and welcoming team who have really allowed me to shape the work I am doing to what interests me. It’s been a great introduction to spending time in court and honing key legal skills by assisting the solicitors to prepare cases.
I would strongly encourage anyone interested in Family Law, Aboriginal Justice or Law Reform to apply for an internship experience with NAAFLS. The staff and management are incredibly welcoming, the work is meaningful and rewarding and overall the internship was a uniquely ‘Territory’ experience that I’ll always remember fondly.
In Tassie I worked as a paralegal in commercial firms (working in areas like conveyancing or wills and estates… nothing exciting!) and was keen to go to a firm or organisation where I was helping people who really needed the help. Although commercial law is obviously important , I was keen to experience work that was less transactional and maybe a little bit more challenging and involved more face-to-face ground-level interaction with clients.
NAAFLS practical legal experience application form
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