Fourth Court of Appeals

The intern program offers law students in their second and third year the opportunity to improve legal research and writing skills while acquiring a “behind-the-scenes” view of an intermediate appellate court. Interns will be selected to work in the chambers of one of the court’s seven justices. Work will include cite-checking opinions, researching civil and criminal law issues, writing legal memoranda, discussing cases with the court’s justices and attorneys, and observing oral argument.

Three times a year, intern solicitations are posted to our website and emailed to the law schools in Texas. The selected applicants will receive a letter stating they have been accepted and may either email or call the staff attorney to schedule a start date. The letters issued will provide the contact information for the supervising attorney.

Intern Applications are accepted as follows:

• SPRING interns August 17^th – Sept. 30^th
• SUMMER interns January 17 – Feb. 29^th
• FALL interns April 18^th – May 30^th

Please do not send applications to the individual justices of the court. The court will base its decisions on the applications received, individual interviews, or both.

To apply, please e-mail the following documents, in the order listed below, as a single PDF to Elizabeth.Montoya@txcourts.gov.

• a cover letter indicating you are applying for an intern position,
• a résumé,
• a law school transcript (unofficial),
• a certification of class rank, and
• a writing sample no longer than ten 8 1/2" x 11" pages.

The cover letter, résumé, and writing sample portions of the application must be electronically searchable; bookmarks are preferred, but not required. Where a signature is required, an electronic image signature is preferred, but a /s/ signature block is acceptable.

The file name must be the student’s last name, first name, middle initial (if any), the term applied for (i.e., Spring), 2023, and “Internship _Application” with each file name element delimited with underscores.

For example, Maria G. De Los Reyes’s application for a spring internship must be named as follows:
DeLosReyes_Maria_G_Spring_2023_Internship_Application