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Legal Intern CRL

Team: Center for Responsible Lending

Location: Durham, NC

Hours: Full-Time; 10-12 weeks

Direct/Related Experience: Preferred, but not required

Education Status Preferred: Graduate; Law

Salary: $14.00/hr. for Graduate Students

The Organization

The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) was created in 2002 to protect homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate predatory lending and other abusive financial practices. CRL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization that promotes responsible lending practices and access to fair terms of credit for low-wealth families. CRL's work has helped lead to major changes in lending practices, saving families over $2 billion annually.

CRL is an affiliate of Self-Help, a community development lender founded in 1980 that creates and protects ownership opportunities for low-wealth families through home and small business ownership. It has provided over $5 billion dollars in financing to help over 55,000 low-wealth borrowers buy homes, build businesses and strengthen community resources.

Major Duties:

Perform legal and factual research in support of the Center for Responsible Lending’s legislative and policy advocacy, coalition-building, litigation, and industry research
Work with the organization’s attorneys on a broad range of legal matters, including issues related to mortgages, payday loans, credit card debt, and other types of credit

Additional Skills Needed:

Superior verbal and written communication skills
A desire to learn about predatory lending
Experience in economic development or with a financial institution is helpful
Course work in Consumer Law, Banking Law, Housing Law and Policy, Bankruptcy and Real Estate transactions is a plus

Application

If you are interested in applying for this position via email, please send resume, cover letter, and writing sample to internships@self-help.org with the internship position title in the subject line. If you are interested in applying for more than one position, please apply for each position individually to ensure appropriate consideration.