Externship Items | Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)

Externship Description

SAG-AFTRA LEGAL INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

SAG-AFTRA represents more than 165,000 actors, announcers, broadcasters journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. With national offices in Los Angeles and New York, and local offices nationwide, SAG-AFTRA members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists into the 21st century and beyond.

The SAG-AFTRA Legal Department is responsible for advising and representing the organization in its legal affairs and for the enforcement of multiple collective bargaining agreements governing the employment of performers in the entertainment industry. The Legal Department handles a variety of legal issues including: litigation and arbitration of grievances; contract enforcement; labor and employment matters; intellectual property protection and foreclosure; and bankruptcy, tax, and corporate law concerns.

The SAG-AFTRA Financial Assurances Department is responsible for reviewing the commercial and intellectual property structure of union projects; conducting copyright, lien and business entity and chain-of-title searches; and negotiating with producers, distributors and financiers to procure a series of documents including security interests, guarantys, and inter-creditor and collection agreements designed to secure payment obligations for members. Financial Assurances also handles bankruptcy and third-party foreclosures involving projects in which Union members have participated.

Legal interns work directly and substantively with SAG-AFTRA attorneys in these Departments on a variety of such matters. This is an unpaid internship opportunity. Law students who have completed at least one year of law school and are eligible to participate in a law school internship program for academic credit as part of their juris doctorate curriculum may apply to intern at SAG-AFTRA.

If interested please submit a cover letter, resume and legal writing sample (up to ten pages) to Legal Internship, SAG-AFTRA, 5757 Wilshire Blvd., 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036 or via email at: legalinternship@sagaftra.org. In your application, please indicate if you have a preference for consideration for the Legal Department or Financial Assurances Department. Note: this a paid position.

We only accept interns who can secure funding through an outside scholarship or grant, like a PILF grant. Students may apply in that capacity.

Although submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, the following deadlines are encouraged: For Fall interns: Submit requested documents by July 15 For Spring interns: Submit requested documents by October 15 For Summer interns: Submit requested documents by March 15