Summer 2026 Legal Internships at HHS: Deadline Feb. 1, 2026

The Office of Counsel to the Inspector General (OCIG) within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is now accepting applications for its Summer 2026 Legal Internships for students interested in health law and health care fraud and abuse. OCIG promotes the mission of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) through timely, accurate, and persuasive legal advocacy and counsel. OCIG offers substantive legal work that gives interns experience in health law and health care fraud and abuse and an opportunity to demonstrate their writing, analytical, and advocacy skills. Through this program, OCIG strives to give each clerk an opportunity to work on a broad array of health care matters, perform legal research, and draft briefs, legal memorandum, and other legal correspondence.

Summer 2026:

Applications for this unpaid opportunity will be accepted and considered through February 1, 2026. Applicants must be in the summer after their first or second year of law school (rising 2L or 3L, or in a 4-year or extended program) or in an LLM program. Applicants must also qualify for either course credit or participate in a school sponsored public interest program.

This internship is unpaid.

Instructions for submitting an application are included in the attached document titled “2026 Summer OIG Health Care Fraud and Abuse Legal Internship Announcement.”

Please note that this internship is in person in the Washington, D.C., headquarters office of the OIG.  There is no option for remote attendance.

Applications should be submitted by e-mail to OCIG.LawClerks@oig.hhs.gov.

Learn more about HHS-OIG: https://oig.hhs.gov/

Learn more about legal internship opportunities: https://oig.hhs.gov/careers/internship-opportunities/