Legal Intern - Employment

We're hiring a Legal Intern to join our Employment Law team!

Patterson Companies has an exciting opportunity to participate in our summer Internship Program! This internship runs from late May through August of 2025. The legal intern will participate in meaningful work, along with making contributions to team efforts in our fast paced, people first corporate environment. This internship will be a hybrid position working both remotely and on-site at our corporate office located in Mendota Heights, MN.

Essential Functions

To perform this job successfully, an employee must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation. To request a reasonable accommodation, notify Human Resources or the manager who oversees the position.  

This position will assist the employment law team with a variety of tasks related to emerging legislation, advice giving, litigation, and employment law practices. Tasks might include the following, depending on need: 

• Perform legal research, including gathering and analyzing multi-state requirements on employment law legislation. Look for patterns and evaluate application to organization practices and policies. 

• Correspond with members of the employment law team to gather and organize information and documents. May conduct interviews and relay information and instructions at the direction of counsel. 

• Summarize documents and prepare chronologies, workflows, reports and similar documents 

• Organize files and distribute information and resources as instructed by counsel 

• Design employment law risk audits; test and review audit results and establish appropriate action plans to mitigate legal risk.

• Review files prepared by HR in response to employee personnel file requests in order to comply with jurisdiction requirements.

• Schedule and attend meetings, take notes and coordinate follow-up actions as needed

Required Qualifications

• 2L or 3L student at an accredited law school

• 1Ls with professional work experience will be considered 

• Proficiency with Office products to include MS Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MS Visio, MS Forms

• Knowledge of or experience with Affirmative Action Plan and EEO Compliance requirements

Working Conditions

Physical Demands

• Operating a computer or other office devices for the majority of the workday 

• Ability to communicate with others in person, over the phone, on video calls, and in writing.   

• Ability understand and effectively exchange accurate information with others such as coworkers, customers and vendors  

• Ability able to read, understand, and interpret various electronic and written documents. 

Environmental Factors

Our corporate office is in an environment in which team members occupy desks in assigned areas or at meeting/collaboration spaces within the building. The building’s primary work areas consist of desks, chairs, computers and other office equipment and devices for professional services.  

The potential compensation range for this role is below. The final offer amount would be based on various factors such as candidate location (geographical labor market), experience, and skills. $0.00 - $0.00