Legal Intern- Summer 2025
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Internship
Closes on Thursday, January 30, 2025
Job Description
As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family - take care of your career and your community!
Meijer Rewards
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Weekly pay
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Scheduling flexibility
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Paid parental leave
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Paid education assistance
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Team member discount
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Development programs for advancement and career growth
Please review the job profile below and apply today!
Meijer offers an 11-week internship program that challenges interns to deliver innovative solutions to real projects that impact the business. Throughout the course of the internship experience, we deliver diverse personal and professional development opportunities that further develop skillsets that can be implemented both during and after the program. The internship program will allow for interaction with other interns and Meijer senior leaders.
The internship program includes:
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Challenging and impactful projects
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Final presentations delivered to senior executives
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Executive speaker series
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Professional development and training opportunities
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Networking and community events to drive engagement
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Events highlighting key areas of the business
The Meijer Legal Department's mission is to listen and partner with our fellow Meijer team members to achieve their business goals using proactive, strategic, and creative solutions. Our Legal Intern will support the Meijer in-house attorneys in fulfilling this mission.
The intern will learn from a variety of practical, real-world in-house counsel experiences including the following:
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Opportunity to support attorneys in the commercial transaction practice group in various ways, including work on developing contract clauses and clause library for inclusion into a developing contract lifecycle management system.
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Conduct legal research and draftmemoranda
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Review and analyzecaselaw, statutes and guidelines
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Attend and participateininternalmeetings and provideinput on variousMeijer initiatives
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Assist with special projects
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Learn about contemporaryretail businessstrategy and tactics, as well as the complexities of providingrisk-tolerantlegaladvicein a fast-pacedenvironment
The intern may also get exposure to other activities of the function, including:
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Other legal practice areas
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Compliance
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Marketing
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Information Technology
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Information Security
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Data Analytics
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Asset Protection
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Store Operations
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Human Resources
Qua lifi ca ti ons :
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First-yearJD candidate currently enrolled in an accreditedU.S. law school
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Available to work hybridschedule at Meijer corporateoffice (in person Monday to Wednesday with the option of remote work on Thursdayand Friday)
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Excellentlegalwriting and researchskills
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Independent thinker, with strong critical reasoning and problem-solving skills
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Self-starter,ableto manageambiguity andpossessingcourage to try new things
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Capableofbuilding new relationshipsandpossessingemotionalintelligence
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Comfort in a corporateenvironment,includingamongsenior businessexecutives
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Dedicated to exceedingcustomerexpectations
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A passiontocompete
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Excellentcommunicationskills
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MicrosoftOfficeexperience,with the flexibility and desire to learn additional technologyskills for using varied systems and tools
We opened our doors more than 90 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we're a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 270 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request . Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.
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