Role Title: Legal Intern 1
Organisation: SCALES Community Legal Centre
Internship Period: Summer (November - December)
Location: Rockingham
The intern will assist the team with legal project work. This may include:
- preparing legal resources, drafting legal correspondence;
- communicating with client and providing legal advice when needed, taking statements from clients;
- attending court and conducting legal research;
- shadowing lawyers and undertaking ad hoc duties.
The Southern Communities Advocacy Legal and Education Service Inc. (SCALES) is a community legal centre and the site of the Murdoch University legal clinic and opened its doors in April 1997. SCALES was established by Murdoch University in partnership with the local community. SCALES runs a Clinical Legal Education unit and an Advanced Clinical Legal Education unit. SCALES provides free legal advice, information and representation to low income people living in the Kwinana and Rockingham areas.