The Legal & Advisory Services (L&A) Internship is an immersive, skills-based program within the financial services industry designed to provide law students with meaningful legal experience working alongside experienced in-house corporate counsel.
L&A advises USAA’s lines of business and leadership across banking, property and casualty insurance, life insurance, privacy, cyber, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and government relations. The internship offers structured learning through work assignments, coaching, and exposure to various practice areas, focusing on developing competencies in legal research, corporate legal writing, communication, professionalism, and applying legal knowledge to insurance and banking matters.
The opportunity may lead to selection into the L&A Legal Fellowship Program — a two‑year, full‑time development opportunity following successful completi…
What you'd do
- Provides legal counsel to support business objectives and mitigate regulatory, compliance and litigation risk to USAA.
- Leads routine to moderately sophisticated legal assignments and delivers appropriate solutions.
- Effectively communicates with internal partners in both verbal and written forms.
- Monitors and analyzes changes in laws, regulations and industry and advises organizational leadership of such changes as appropriate.
- Supports senior attorneys with legal questions or issues by using general knowledge and conducting research.
- Ensures critical issue of matters communicating more significant risk to more senior attorneys.
- If awaiting bar licensure, all legal advice and assignments will be provided by and completed under the supervision of a licensed attorney.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school.
- Currently pursuing a Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school
- Starts
- 2026-09-15