The legal intern will assist with commercial transactions, research, draft contracts, and attend client meetings in the legal department for ten weeks in summer 2026.
            Job Description:Summer 2026 Internship – Legal Intern
Application Deadline: November 14, 2025
 We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible, as internship applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Internship Dates: June 8, 2026 – August 14, 2026
 (You must be available to work during this period.)
About Our Organization
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile, and live events. For more than 130 years, Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content and today operates one of the world’s largest news-gathering networks. Our portfolio includes leading publications and products such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, OPIS, and more. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
About the Role
Dow Jones & Company is looking for a legal intern to join our NYC team. You will join Dow Jones' legal department full-time for ten weeks in the summer of 2026. You will work with lawyers in the department on commercial transactions, including advertising, and labor and employment, privacy and compliance matters. You will report to the Assistant General Counsel.
This role is a hybrid, based in our New York, NY office.  
You Will
Research
Draft and review commercial contracts
Draft memoranda
Work on special projects for the legal department
Have opportunities to attend client meetings and negotiations
You Have
One or two years of law school completed (are a first or second-year law student)
Superb interpersonal, presentation and written skills
Ability to prioritize, manage and execute tasks, while following critical project timelines
A demonstrated interest in commercial transactional law in the advertising and media space
Interested students should submit a cover letter, resume, and law school transcript with their application
Salary: $40.00/hour
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Non-Union rolePay Range: $40.00 - $40.00We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..Similar Jobs
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