| A friend of mine actually interns at a law firm. Not only does he get paid, it looks pretty tight on the app. Especially since he's majoring legal. Sorry, though, I wouldn't know about the rec.
As for the candidate thing. Be careful with that, because so many people do it. And I'd advise against getting a rec from that candidate, because they're usually formulaic, cookie-cutter letters that don't mean anything to colleges. But another success story on that note- another friend was telling me about a friend of his (okay, I guess that makes the story somewhat dubious, but I'm sure the essentials are correct) who interned at our local City Hall, then somehow eventually worked his way up to working for an Assemblyman (I'm not sure on the details.) But in his case, getting a rec worked, because a. he worked there so long and b. worked really hard, and got noticed, so the Assemblyman wrote the letter personally. He is now at Harvard.
Point being, go for it, sounds great. You'll have to ask someone else on that, sorry. | 
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