Summer Program Expands to NCLC’s Washington, D.C. office
BOSTON – The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) has awarded legal internships to six law students for the summer of 2026.
Five students will work on economic justice issues at NCLC’s Boston headquarters, and one legal intern, for the first time this year, will work from NCLC’s Washington, D.C., office.
NCLC’s 2026 summer interns are:
- Bennett Johnson, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, received the Hobbs Fellowship, which honors Robert “Bob” Hobbs, the longtime deputy director of the NCLC), who was a “founding father” of today’s consumer rights community.
- Courtney Thomas, Rutgers Law School, received a Gibbs Fellowship, endowed by Eric Gibbs, founding partner of Gibbs Mura, a national plaintiffs’ law firm recognized for its work in consumer protection, privacy, antitrust, whistleblower, mass‑tort, and class‑action litigation.
- Emma Farrell, University of Michigan Law School, is a Next Generation Fellow, a fund created in recognition of NCLC’s continued work to build the consumer law community of the future.
- Kristin Meader, Northeastern University School of Law, is a Gupta Fellow, named in honor of Sandip J. Gupta to continue his legacy of creating affordable healthcare.
- Naveen Rajan, New York University School of Law, received the Rossman Fellowship, named in honor of Stuart Rossman, former co-director of NCLC’s internship program and its first director of litigation.
- Daryn Rockett, Washington University School of Law and Brown School of Social Work, will work from the Washington, D.C., office. Daryn received the Greenfield Fellowship, endowed by Professor Michael M. Greenfield, a distinguished legal scholar and professor emeritus at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
“This group of law students deeply impressed us with their academic talent and their dedication to public interest law and economic justice, and we’re excited to welcome them to NCLC this summer,” said Richard Dubois, executive director of NCLC. “We’re very grateful to the generous donors who have helped us expand NCLC’s summer internship program to six students this year.”
In addition to a paid summer internship, these students will also receive free registration to attend the Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, hosted by NCLC and the National Association of Consumer Advocates. This year’s conference will take place in Atlanta, October 22-24.
NCLC legal interns are assigned to teams of four-to-five attorneys, which focus on litigation, non-mortgage lending (credit cards, auto student loans, and various forms of predatory loan products), mortgage lending, bankruptcy, access to utilities, and racial justice and equal economic opportunities issues. Assignments range from researching and drafting litigation memos and briefs to work on NCLC’s manuals, investigative reports, training materials, policy analyses, and articles.
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