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Albany Law School

Albany Law School offers the following field placement programs:

• Government Program – This field placement program, a joint initiative of the Clinical Legal Studies Program and the Government Law Center, is available in the spring semester. Students spend time in the office of counsel to one of New York’s state agencies, executive departments, or in the NYS legislature. Depending on the particular placement selected, students may assist in drafting legislative initiatives, legal research and writing projects, policy analysis, bill negotiations, and/or litigation. A course in government ethics is required.

• Semester in Government Program – Students spend time working in the office of counsel to a federal government agency in Washington DC, performing the legal work of a judicial, governmental, or public interest office under the direct supervision of experienced attorneys. A course on government ethics also is required.

• Semester in Practice – Second and third year students will be afforded a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in exceptional judicial, governmental, and public interest offices for an intense semester long placement experience. Under the direct supervision of highly experiences mentor attorneys, students will spend time participating and conducting the legal work of their chosen office including, depending on the placement, witness interviewing, trial preparation, legal research and writing, drafting opinions, fact investigation, taking depositions, and the conducting of full trials or hearings.

American University Washington College of Law

The WCL Externship Program provides second- and third-year law students with exciting and varied learning opportunities in the work world through law-related field work.. Students are placed with government agencies, courts (state, local, and federal), non-profit organizations, and private law offices engaged in pro bono activities. Students work under the supervision of a practicing attorney and receive academic credit for their unpaid legal work.
In addition to the field placement, students participate in an externship seminar which draws upon their work experience and enriches their understanding of the law, legal institutions, and the work of a lawyer. (www.wcl.american.edu/pub/externship)

Appalachian School of Law

All students at ASL complete a six week, three credit hour, externship during the summer after their first year of law school. Students work a total of approximately 225 hours in a judge's chambers, public law office, or public interest organization under the direct supervision of a licensed attorney. Each student is assigned a faculty coordinator, and the faculty conducts an orientation and a debriefing session before and after the externships.

Externship placements for students have included federal magistrate, district court, and circuit judges; state Supreme Court justices in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina; state trial judges in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky; U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency; Virginia Attorney General's Office; Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky Legal Services offices; Tennessee District Attorneys; Virginia Commonwealth Attorneys; West Virginia District Attorneys; North Carolina District Attorneys; Kentucky County Attorneys; Georgia District Attorney; South Carolina Solicitor's Office; and the Air Force Legal Office.

Extern student experiences typically include a combination of the following: observe court proceedings, research legal issues, perform factual investigations, draft pleadings and legal memoranda, draft judicial opinions, update law libraries, and assist with trial strategy and problem solving.

Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Ave Maria School of Law

Barry University School of Law

State Attorney Externships (State Attorney's Offices)

Public Defender Externships (Public Defender's Offices)

Judicial Externships (placed as intern for Judges)

Civil Poverty Externships (Legal Aid Offices)

Mediation Externships (placed with County Court)

Baylor University Law School

Externships are available to all students. Generally two quarter hours of credit for 90 hours of qualifying work. Available to students are both ongoing, permanent externships (e.g. Legal Services, county and federal prosecutors offices) and qualifying one-time externships arranged by the students.

Boston College School of Law

Boston University School of Law

Boston University School of Law offers two public interest externship programs: The Legal Externship Program gives second and third-year students the opportunity to gain practical experience in an area of substantive interest. Students are exposed to the realities of law practice while under the supervision of well-respected practitioners. Over the years, hundreds of students have expanded their experience through legal externships in such areas as civil rights, health care, environmental law, domestic violence and children’s law. For a complete list of placements, visit http://www.bu.edu/law/jd/clinics/externship.html#top.

The Legislative Externship Program matches second and third-year students with Senators and Representatives at the Massachusetts State House.

Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School

BYU offers Public Interest externships with judges, government agencies, public defenders, prosecutors, legal services offices, etc. These programs have included up to 70 students each summer and 40 students each semester. Students can earn up to 6 credits by doing at least 50 hours of unpaid work per credit.

International externships: The past three years, more than 25 students have earned up to 6 externship credits in international positions. They are largely placed with legal counsel offices for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which sponsors BYU, or with law offices in the countries involved with the legal counsel offices.

Also, BYU offers externships for students representing juveniles in the Ute Tribal Court.

Brooklyn Law School

California Western School of Law

California Western School of Law offers the opportunity for third year students to participate in part or full time internships for academic credit in any supervised and qualifying public interest placement anywhere in the world.

Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law

Students receive an opportunity to work in a public service office and earn up to two hours academic credit, during the semester (approx. 10 hours a week) or the summer. The number of spaces available may be limited--as with any seminar-type course.

Requirements:

Requires a minimum of 112 hours of work for two hour credit; 70 hours for one hour credit. A non-exclusive listing of offices that are approved may be found in the Career Services Offices.

Capital University Law School

Capital operates an externship program under the supervision of Professor Susan Simms and the Committee on Judicial Clerkships and Externships. The program permits upper-class students to apply their knowledge of substantive law and to develop their practical lawyering skills. These externships include federal, state, and local courts and administrative agencies and non-profit organizations such as the Neighborhood Safety Working Group; The Justice League of Ohio; the Ohio Environment Council; the Ohio Nurses Association; the Ohio State Medical Association; the Health Policy Institute of Ohio; the Ohio CASA/GAL Association; the Equal Justice Foundation; the Legal Aid Society of Columbus; the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation; and the Ohio State Legal Services Association. For more information on our externship program, please contact:

Susan Simms
Director of the Externship Program
Capital University Law School
303 E. Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 236-7301
ssimms@law.capital.edu

Case Western Reserve University Law School

Catholic University of America School of Law

Our field placement programs include Legal Externships: Becoming a Lawyer and Legal Externships: Supervised Fieldwork, which are general placement externship programs with either a seminar (Becoming a Lawyer) or a tutorial (Supervised Fieldwork) component. In addition, we have a Criminal Prosecution Clinic, which places up to 16 third-year students in the offices of the State's Attorney for Montgomery County and Prince George's County Maryland; the SEC Observer Program, which places student at the Securities & Exchange Commission; DC Law Students in Court, civil & criminal divisions, which are year-long placements in poverty law office; and the Immigration/Human Rights Externship Clinic, operated by our in-house clinical program, but which places students in up to 5 different immigration/human rights placements. All placements in each program are within the DC metropolitan area. http://law.cua.edu/clinics/cle/externships.cfm/

Chapman University School of Law

The Chapman University School of Law Externship Program allows students to earn academic credit while working in a government agency, a judge’s chambers in a state or federal court, or a public interest organization. Students receive valuable instruction that supplements the traditional legal education of the classroom, and develop the practical skills, poise and confidence necessary to be effective practitioners in the courtroom and the law office. Externships also provide insight into professional responsibility and the operation of the legal system while enhancing the legal resume and providing important networking opportunities.

For more information please see http://www.chapman.edu/law/programs/externships.asp#IIIB

Charleston School of Law

The Charleston School of Law offers a dynamic externship program that gives students the opportunity to gain practical work experience while they earn course credit. As externs, students can complement their academic preparation by working under the direct supervision of members of the judiciary, government attorneys, or public interest attorneys. The program is subject to the same academic qualifications of standard courses. Participation in the externship program does not count toward the 30-hour pro bono graduation requirement.

City University of New York Law at Queens College

Health Law Concentration students participate in legal work in the dynamic, growing, and challenging area of health law issues, including access to healthcare and the law's effect on the quality of care. Students work as interns two days a week in a variety of public interest settings, including governmental agencies like the Health and Hospitals Corporation, legal services offices, HIV advocacy centers, and in plaintiff medical malpractice firms. In both the classroom and their supervised field placements, students learn about and critique health-care programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, legal mechanisms that monitor the quality of care, doctor-patient relationships, bioethics, and issues of privacy and civil liberties. In addition to legislative and policy work, the Concentration provides students with opportunities to enhance their legal writing and other litigation skills.

Equality Concentrationengages students in legal work combatting discrimination and promoting equal treatment. Students work as interns two days a week in public interest organizations like the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the National Employment Law Project (NELP); state and local human rights agencies like the New York City Human Rights Commission; and small firms engaged in Title VII and other civil rights litigation. An extensive and intensive classroom component, which teaches the law of employment discrimination, discrimination based on race and gender, sexual orientation, disability and AIDS, and language discrimination, complements and enhances student work in supervised field placements. Similarly, classroom instruction, utilizing simulation, research, fact investigation, and pre-trial and trial practice, enables students to perform at an advanced level in their internships and helps insure that their fieldwork includes opportunities for meaningful lawyering and full participation in these challenging cases. The fieldwork experience, explored in weekly rounds or meetings, provides rich opportunities for analyzing and understanding the ethical and professional responsibility issues involved in civil rights practice.

All students in a summer public internship take a companion course, Public Interest/Public Service.

Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law

www.wm.edu/law/academicprograms/curriculum/experiences.shtml

Non-Profit Organization Externship 1-3 credits:

Students in this course will be assigned to work with a lawyer providing services to one or more non-profit organizations.

Department of Employment Dispute Resolution Externship 3 credits:

This course requires students to work one full day/week in Richmond at the Department of Employee Relations Counselors, an agency which counsels state employees on work-related complaints, aspects of the grievance procedure, etc. Students will have opportunities to assist with adjudication and resolution of grievances, including investigating facts, applying the language of the grievance procedure, analyzing statutes and drafting rulings. Students may also be involved in the analysis of court decisions or other special projects as determined by the agency. Students should have a special interest in labor and employment law.

General Practice Externship 1-2 credits:

Externships provide valuable opportunities to enhance professional skills and to learn about employment options and work environment. The Director of the Externship Program and the Office of Career Services have a wide variety of placement suggestions for students who have not made their own arrangements.

Government and Public Interest Externship 3 credits:

This course provides an opportunity for students to gain practical experience by working in a government agency or nonprofit organization under the supervision of a lawyer.

Virginia Court of Appeals Externship 3 credits:

Students will work in the office of the Chief Staff Attorney reviewing briefs and records filed with the Court, and drafting proposed orders and memorandum opinions. A portion of one day each week will be spent in Richmond. Enrollment limited to four students. VA Third-Year Practice is required.

Attorney General Externship 3 credits:

Students work in the office of the Attorney General of Virginia in Richmond. Students will be expected to spend one full day per week in Richmond. Students in this course must arrange their schedules so that they have no classes one day a week. They will not be excused from other classes to participate in this course.

Judicial Clerk Externship 1-3 credits:

Provides an opportunity for students to gain insight into the judicial process from the bench, under the supervision of a local Judge. Currently there are several Federal Magistrate Judges in the Eastern District of Virginia and a VA CT of Appeals Judge serving as field instructors for students enrolled in the Judicial Clerk Externship, and additional Judges may join the program. Students selected for and enrolled in this externship are likely to have the opportunity to assist the Judge or Judge's Clerk in Court when necessary, and could be expected to perform research and writing assignments such as the review of Petitions for Appeal and Briefs in Opposition and preparation of memoranda related to this review; "procedural checks" on appellate filings; review and preparation of summaries of trial records in capital murder cases; observation and discussion of oral arguments; review of Habeus Corpus Petitions; and may have the opportunity to sit in while the Judge/Justices review petitions and deliberate.

Theraputic Courts Practice Externship 3 credits:

The Therapeutic Justice Practice Externship will offer students the opportunity to participate in specialized alcohol and drug courts in juvenile and circuit courts of Virginia. Students will be assigned to work under the supervision of a judge, prosecutor, or public defender as they learn about new and innovative alternatives to the traditional approach of the administration of justice. Students should plan one day per week with the supervising judge, prosecutor or public defender.

General Assembly Externship 1-3 credits:

During General Assembly sessions in Richmond, this externship will offer students the opportunity to work in the office of a delegate or senator. Students will learn, among other things, the daily routine of a legislator, the legislative process, and constituent services. Students will be given a rare opportunity to view the political and legislative process with a member of the world's oldest and continuously operating legislative body. Students should plan on one day per week in Richmond.

Supreme Court of Virginia Office of Chief Staff Attorney Externship 3 credits:

Provides students the opportunity to review trial court records, Petitions for Appeal and Briefs in Opposition, and prepare written memoranda outlining procedural histories, factual summaries and legal issue analysis; to assist in performing "procedural checks;" to attend and observe Supreme Court oral arguments when the full Court is in session; to attend Writ Panel and Chief Staff Attorney oral hearings and participate in discussions of significant issues raised or highlighted in the oral argument process; to prepare initial drafts of disposition orders in original jurisdiction and appellate review cases; to perform specialized research and writing projects for individual justices or the Chief Staff Attorney’s Office as may be necessary. This externship requires students to spend TWO full days in Richmond each week for a total of 8 weeks. Third-year students preferred, however second-year students who have some other relevant skill or experience that demonstrates their ability to handle the office's critical and sophisticated workload in a discreet manner may be considered.

Columbia University School of Law

The New York Attorney General Public Advocacy Externship

Externship at the United Nations

Legal Education in the Community

Externship at the Center for Battered Women's Legal Services

Federal Appellate Court Externship

Federal District Court Externship

Criminal Court Clerkship

Cornell Law School

Full-Term Externship: The Full-Term Externship course allows students to earn 12 credit hours as externs working full time a minimum of 65 days at an approved non-profit or governmental placement site off campus (practically anywhere in the United States)during the fall semester of their third year.

Judicial Externship: Students work with a trial court judge. Work involves courtroom observation, conferences with the judge, research and writing memoranda, and drafting decisions. The emphasis is on learning about judges, judicial decision-making process, and trials. There are weekly class meetings with readings and discussions of topics related to the externship experience. While the primary focus is the students' work at the placement, each student will also do class presentations, weekly journal entries, provide written work samples, and meet individually with the faculty member

Law Guardian Externship: Students learn about the representation of children in abuse and neglect cases, juvenile delinquency proceedings, and PINS (Persons in Need of Supervision) cases through their placement at the Tompkins County Law Guardian office. Duties may include interviewing, investigation, drafting memoranda and motions, and assisting in trial preparation. There will be several meetings with the instructor during the semester for discussion of issues arising from and related to the representation of children. Bi-weekly journals are also required.

Legislative Externship: The students work with Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton. Work involves drafting legislation, tracking legislation for constituents, legal research and writing, responding to constituent requests that particularly require legal research or an explanation of law. The emphasis is on learning about legislative process, drafting of legislation, the reasons for statutory ambiguity, and various learning skills. There are several informal meetings with the faculty supervisor during the semester with readings and group discussions related to the externship experience.

Neighborhood Legal Services Externship: Cases involve the representation of clients of a legal services office, the Ithaca office of Neighborhood Legal Services (NLS). Along with case handling, this externship includes a classroom component, provided by Clinical Skills 1, 2 or 1, 3. The classes are devoted to the development of lawyering skills and issues related to professional responsibility and the role of an attorney. In addition, each student will meet periodically with the faculty supervisor for review of the placement experience.

Creighton University School of Law

Under Creighton’s internship program, Internships in city, county, state and federal legal offices are three-hour, non-classroom hour courses. Internships offer students the opportunity to serve as law clerks to the various attorneys and judges. To satisfactorily complete an Internship a student must:

Complete a learning agenda indicating personal goals for the Internship; Attend all sessions of the seminar class; Complete at least 150 hours of work assigned by Internship Supervisor; Keep a timesheet; Keep a journal of reflections about learning experiences; Submit periodic emails to professor; Make a presentation about the Internship to seminar class; and Complete and submit an evaluation of the Internship experience.

For further information see: http://culaw2.creighton.edu/index.aspx?p=1610&t=3#ctop

DePaul University College of Law

An extensive externship program exists offering placement in many public interest fields. The program is open to upper level students and requires 180 hours field work per semester. Please visit http://www.law.depaul.edu/programs/juris_doctor/field_placement.asp for detailed information.

Drake University School of Law

Over a dozen, including: Prosecutor, Environmental Law, Federal Public Defender, Ethics, Insurance, Independent, Probate, Securities, U. S. Attorney's Office, Administrative Law and Judicial Clerkships.

Drexel University College of Law

Drexel Law’s signature experiential program is its Co-op Program, which is being developed for implementation beginning in the Fall of 2007. The Co-op Program bears some similarities to externship programs at other law schools. Co-ops are field placements for which law students earn academic credit, rather than pay. They are a part of the academic curriculum of the law school rather than paid positions.

The Co-op Program at Drexel Law differs significantly from externship programs at most law schools in several respects. First, the students can earn an unusually high amount of academic credit – 14 credits over 20 weeks – for their participation in the program. While on Co-op, Drexel law students will only have to take an additional 4 credits, meaning that they will be able to devote much of their time and energy to their work in the field.

Drexel boasts over 25 Public Interest Co-op Placements.

Duke University School of Law

In 2004-2005, externships were offered two ways (a third type of field placement opportunity was added in 2005-2006 -- domestic externships).

1. Students in the Poverty Law seminar could receive a third credit for field work related to the course. This seminar is a broad study of poverty, poverty programs, and the United States civil justice system. Class topics include the history of access to justice, the demographics of poverty, a skills workshop on client-centered interviewing, and substantive topics such as food and income programs, health law, economic development, family law, employment, and housing.

2. Second and third-year students, particularly those enrolled in the JD/LLM program, have the opportunity to participate for one semester in a legal job at a non-profit institution conducting international work. The externship also includes a research tutorial and a research paper under the supervision of a Law School faculty member. Students may earn a total of 14 semester-hours of credit for the entire semester.

Duquesne University School of Law

Emory University School of Law

Second- and third-year students students in the field placement program are placed as interns with public service organizations such as the ACLU, Atlanta Legal Aid, Georgia Legal Services, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers, and the Pro Bono Partnership Atlanta. Third-year students may be placed with a district attorney, a public defender, or with the U.S. attorney's office and may try cases under supervision pursuant to local, state, or federal rules. All of these internships receive 3 credits.

These placements are carefully selected, monitored, and evaluated by the administrative professor for field placement in order to provide practical lawyering experiences with the supervision of highly qualified and experienced attorneys. Students integrate substantive learning with the practice of law and develop their legal skills through exposure to many different kinds of law practice.

Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law

The Law School’s externship program affords students the opportunity to work and learn in governmental, judicial, public service and public interest law offices. Externs may locate their own placement or select from a wide variety of governmental agencies, judges at every level in the state, prosecutors, public defenders or public interest firms like Legal Services Alabama, Alabama Appleseed and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Florida A&M University College of Law

Florida Coastal School of Law

Judicial Internships

Florida International University College of Law

Students are placed at the Public Defender's Office and State Attorney's Office within the Miami Dade and Broward. At the request of students we have been successful in placing students in Gainesville and other areas. We have also had placements at the Capital Collateral Regional Office, Security and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office. http://law.fiu.edu

Florida State University College of Law

The Clinical Externship Program offers a supervised program with placements at over 60 public law offices in the state, including Criminal, Civil, Environmental, Labor/Employment, Local Government, Administrative, Tort, Corrections, Economic Crimes/Antitrust, Disability Law, Domestic Violence, Real Estate Transactions, Guardian Ad Litem, Legal Services, Appellate and Judicial (federal and state courts).

Fordham University School of Law

For a description of field placement programs, see http://law.fordham.edu/externships

Franklin Pierce Law Center

Our externship program is one of the oldest in the country. With the guidance of the externship director, students can plan an externship with government agencies, non-profit organizations, law firms, judges, and in-house positions.

The majority of our public interest externships fall in the criminal prosecution and defense throughout the US. However, we have had students at National Public Radio, the Library of Congress, working with risk management in hospitals and working on disability rights issues, to name just a few.

Please see www.piercelaw.edu/externships/externindex.htm for more information for students and employers.

George Mason University School of Law

George Washington University Law School

Outside Placement Program

Students may gain practical experience and receive academic credit through outside placement with government agencies, judges, and private organizations in the Washington, DC area. Students are also required to take a co-requisite course in addition to their placement. For more details, see http://www.law.gwu.edu/CDO/Information+for+Students/Judicial+Clerkships+and+Internships/.

It is also possible to receive credit through Independent Study.

Georgetown University Law Center

Field placements may be obtained in any non-profit, government or judicial setting in the District of Columbia metropolitan area. Students must participate in an orientation class and a mid-semester meeting. They also must turn in a paper describing what they learned in their externship at the end of the semester. Website: www.law.georgetown.edu/registrar/externship.html

Georgia State University College of Law

Golden Gate University School of Law

Students become eligible to enroll in an internship for credit/clinical field placement after completing 29 units (1 year) of coursework and may take one clinical course per semester for a total of 13 units of clinical coursework during law school. Students perform 45 hours of work at their placement per unit. Additionally, students attend weekly seminars relating to their clinical work.

Public Interest/Government Counsel Clinic - Students are placed with a public interest organization or government agency such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, and Legal Services for Children.

Criminal Litigation Clinic - Students work in a variety of state or federal criminal justice agencies, including trial-level public defender or prosecution offices and appellate defenders or prosecutors.

Environmental Law Clinic - Students in this clinic work at government agencies, public interest organizations, and environmental organizations such as California Rural Legal Assistance, Communities for a Better Environment, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.

Family Law Clinic - Students work at a variety of placements including private family law firms, San Francisco or Alameda County Family Law Facilitator’s Office, and STAND! Against Domestic Violence (formerly, Battered Women’s Alternatives).

Landlord-Tenant Clinic- Students are placed with local attorneys and work on eviction and other landlord-tenant problems.

Judicial Externships - Students may apply to the judicial externship program after completing 40 units (1½ years) of coursework. Students work in judges’ chambers at all levels of state and federal courts with a full range of judicial assignments including civil trials, family and juvenile law, bankruptcy, criminal law, and appellate matters.

Gonzaga University School of Law

Types of placements: County Prosecutor's office, Public Defender's office, Superior Court, Federal Court, Court of Appeals, Bankruptcy Court, Office of U.S. Trustee, Attorney General Office.

Location of placements outside of Spokane: Alaska; Colorado; Idaho, New York; Seattle, WA; Chelan County, WA; Thurston County, WA.

Hamline University School of Law

Hamline provides two practicums with public interest placements: the Public Interest practicum takes up to 8 students who are placed at legal services agencies (such as Legal Aid, Centro Legal, etc), and the Criminal Law Practicum which places about half of the students with public defender or county attorney offices.

Harvard University Law School

Externships are clinical placements outside of Harvard Law School in which attorneys at public interest organizations, government and community agencies, and occasionally private law firms provide supervision. About 2/3 of our clinical placements are at in-house (HLS) clinics and the remaining 1/3 are externships/field placements.

Our largest field placements are through the Government Lawyer course; up to sixty students each year can be placed at the United States Attorney’s Office and the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General.

Clinical externships are offered through courses and independently designed projects on a wide variety of issues including: children’s rights, gender violence, civil rights, education, disability, and sports law.

Hofstra University School of Law

Hofstra Law School is committed to providing students with classroom training in how to think like a lawyer and experiential training in how to use that thinking on behalf of real clients. One of the ways in which students get legal experience is through our Externship Program, which enables students to earn credit by working under the supervision of mentor/lawyers in a variety of practice situations. Students have a wide range of placements from which to choose, in practice areas which offer experience in the varied subject areas in which students might ultimately choose to practice. Most externships are in the public sector, which gives students the opportunity to see how different government and not for profit offices meet the legal needs of the communities they serve. Through our specialty externships with the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations, students also have the opportunity for private firm placements.

Students enrolled in the Externship Program for the Fall or Spring semester get three credits for working a set number of hours per week (typically 12 - 15 hours) at an assigned office. Students working over the summer for 3 credits, may work more hours over a shorter number of weeks. Students are required to keep journals and time records, and will meet regularly with their practitioner/mentor. In addition, they will meet with the Externship Program faculty supervisor to talk about their experience, and to review the functioning of the externship in general. Students will attend a weekly seminar and must produce a minimum of 25 pages of written work based upon their work with the mentor over the course of the externship. The written work may be one long research paper or legal document or a series of shorter samples of the legal work which the student worked on in their placement.

The weekly seminar provides an opportunity to meet with all other externs and to examine substantive and ethical legal issues that have arisen during the placements. Each student presides over a session of the seminar on at least one occasion.

If you are interested in learning more about the available externships, submit the externship form to Professor Marcia Levy, Assistant Dean for Skills Training at (516) 463-4256 or lawmnl@hofstra.edu, or visit the Program's web site at law.hofstra.edu/Academics/Programs/acadpg_externship.html.

Howard University School of Law

Howard offers externships for credit in the public interest, legal services, and governmental/administrative agencies, as well as the judiciary.

Illinois Institute of Technology: Chicago-Kent College of Law

Second & third-year students are able to participate in the Externship Program, a four credit hour program that allows them to gain practical legal experience working at a public interest or government agency. Many students participate in this program every semester, including summer term, and receive valuable legal training that provides them with the experience they will need to obtain a public sector or private legal job. The large majority of the externships are in the public interest sector. The program consists of both fieldwork and classroom component.

The Environmental and Energy Law Externship Program provides students in the Environmental Law Certificate Program with the opportunity to extern for one credit on a pass/low pass/fail basis at environmental governmental agencies and public interest groups, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency Regional Office, the Illinois Attorney General's Office (Environmental Office), the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the City of Chicago Law Department (Environmental Unit), the City of Chicago Housing Authority (Environmental Unit), the Illinois Pollution Control Board, Citizens for a Better Environment, the Chicago Legal Clinic, and the Lake Michigan Federation. The program consists of both fieldwork and classroom component.

The Labor/Employment Law Externship Program is offered (there is an unnecessary space here) through the Labor/Employment Law Certificate Program. The externship is available to students enrolled in the Labor/Employment Law Certificate Program during their last year of law school and is used to satisfy the experiential learning requirement of that certificate program. The educational objective of the externship is to provide the student externs with a well-supervised lawyering experience in labor or employment law by enabling each of them to extern with a law school approved placement. Student externs are placed with a law firm, corporation, union, or governmental agency.

Justice Web Collaboratory Externship. This externship provides students the opportunity to explore access to justice issues, including the use of technology in legal services, alternative legal services delivery models, e-lawyering, and pro se litigant assistance.

The Judicial Externship Program is a 4-credit hour program open to second and third-year law students who want to do legal research for a federal appellate, district or magistrate judges or a designated Illinois appellate or ciruit court judge. Externs work directly with the judge and the judge's law clerks researching, writing memoranda of law, drafting opinions, and generally observing and participating in the day-to-day operation of the court. An accompanying classroom discussion component meets once a week during the course of the externship. Externs are selected by the individual judge(s) through an application procedure conducted by the law school. Judicial Externships are offered fall, winter and summer semesters.

Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington

The Law School permits students engaged in unpaid legal work for nonprofit, government agencies, judges, or legal services organizations to receive up to four credits during the summer through this program. In order to participate, a student must secure an internship and complete an academic component for credit.The major categories of internship opportunities include: Legal Services for poor/special populations; Advocacy Nonprofits; Other Nonprofits; Judicial; and Government. It is possible to find a good internship anywhere in the country. http://www.law.indiana.edu/careers/internships/index.shtml

Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis

Inter American University of Puerto Rico: Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law

Tutorial Externship - Project Pro-Se (Program to help citizens represent themselves in court cases).

John Marshall Law School

John Marshall Law School – Atlanta

Lewis & Clark College School of Law

Students have the opportunity to participate in both Clinical Internship Seminars (CIS) and Externships. In CIS courses, students complete both classroom study and internship practicum’s in the designated field of study. The public interest CIS courses that are offered include: Criminal Law, Disability Law, Environmental and Natural Resource Law, Environmental Prosecution, and Federal Indian Law. Many students who participated in the Externship program had public interest placements. They worked for a variety of organizations including, The Center for Constitutional Rights, Earth Rights International, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Liberty University School of Law

Liberty University School of Law affords students abundant opportunities to work in non-compensated positions for academic credit. Some students participate in the externship program throughout the academic year; other students serve as externs for one semester or summer. Students have served or are currently serving as externs in the following field placements: the offices of federal and state prosecutors, state supreme court justices, federal magistrates, federal judges, Operation Blue Ridge Thunder (a task force for Internet crimes against children), the Institute for Christian Conciliation, Family Research Council, the Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, the Office of the Texas Attorney General, and Liberty Counsel.

Liberty University School of Law also affords students numerous opportunities to serve in internships (not for pay or academic credit). Students have served as interns in the following field placements: the offices of state and federal prosecutors; a state public defender; the Virginia Legal Aid Society; the Chicago Legal Clinic; the Presidential Personnel Office in Washington, D.C.; the IRS National Director of Legislative Affairs in Washington, D.C.; U.S. District Courts; Federal Courts of Appeal; the White House; and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Punishment and Post Conviction Procedure - three to five students are placed with the Innocence Project in New Orleans and the Office of the Public Defender in Baton Rouge. The externs at the Innocence Project are eligible to earn two credits and are assigned to work on cases taken by the Innocence Project. Students may review transcripts for errors, conduct interviews of potential witnesses and examine physical evidence. Students working with the Office of the Public Defender assist lawyers in representing indigent accused. Projects may include interviewing witnesses and defendents, assisting in trial preparation and assisting in negotiations with prosecutors.

Loyola Law School: Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Loyola Law School has an extensive externship program that places students in government agencies, public interest offices and judicial chambers. Professor Barbara Blanco, Director of the program is nationally known as an expert in this area of legal education.

Loyola University Chicago: Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Loyola offers externship classes through which the students may earn up to three credit hours. The student works 11-15 hours per week and attends an externship class that meets throughout the semester. The public service-related externship areas are:

• Government and Agency
• Health Law
• ChildLaw
• Criminal
• Judicial
• Corporate (non-profit, foundations, etc.).

Loyola University New Orleans: Loyola University New Orleans School of Law

Students are encouraged to apply beginning the start of the spring semester of the academic year prior to the start of your desired externship. Application deadline is generally the last day of February.

Students must be given permission to register by Prof. Molina. Students must make a commitment for two semesters, unless the placement allows you to participate for one semester only. Students need permission from the externship faculty if you intend to participate for one semester only. Also, you may not have outside employment unless you are specifically authorized by the placement and the externship faculty. Class participation is required. Class includes journals, selected readings and discussions, and student presentations. You must also keep a time sheet.

Placements have included: Louisiana Supreme Court; United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Office of the Judicial Administrator of the Louisiana Supreme Court; Administrative Law Judge for the United States Department of Labor; Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board; National Labor Relations Board; United States Bankruptcy Trustee; United States Bankruptcy Court; United States Coast Guard; Advocacy Center; Innocence Project.

For further information, please see http://www.law.loyno.edu/extern

Marquette University Law School

MULS sponsors a number of supervised field placements with government agencies and public interest organizations that offer legal services, including:

AIDS Resource Center, Catholic Charities Immigration Project, Cento Legal, Legal Action of Wisconsin, Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, MULS Restorative Justice Initiative, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Equal Rights Division and various state and federal government agencies. Placement in these externships entitles students to credit upon successful completion of designated number of hours and positive supervisory reports.

Mercer University School of Law

Public Interest Practicum Program: The public interest practicum offers students an opportunity to earn academic credit while working for a public interest or public sector employer without compensation. A full-time faculty member supervises the students. Through the program, many law students test their skills in real courtrooms before graduation. Georgia court rules allow third-year students to practice under the supervision of lawyers doing public interest work. Every year, Mercer places students with public defenders' offices, prosecutors' offices, judges and other agencies so that the students may gain actual courtroom experience.

Michigan State University College of Law

Externships are limited to legal aids, non-profits, government and judiciary. Students must attend an externship information session prior to the externship. During the semester, students are required to submit bi-weekly reports detailing the legal work performed.

Mississippi College: Mississippi College School of Law

The Law School offers externships at:

• Public Defenders Office
• Mississippi Office of Capital Post-conviction Counsel
• Legal Services Office

New England School of Law: New England School of Law

The in-house clinics and externships are administered jointly under the umbrella of the clinical courses. Most clinics and placements are entirely Public Interest.

New York Law School: New York Law School

Non-clinic field placements are administered in two ways. Students may opt for a seminar & workshop model which is subject specific in which a professor teaches a doctrinal seminar that seeks to integrate what students learn in their workshop placement. Students work about 15 hours per week at their placement and earn two credits and earn an additional 2 graded credits for the seminar. Many of these placements are public service oriented, in the fields of criminal justice, international human rights, immigration law, and New York City law. The other model is the externship model. About 40% of our externship placements are in public interest positions. Students register for a two credit pass/fail externship course and may register for a 2 credit graded optional seminar. In this model, students work approximately 12 hours per week at their placement and keep a journal of their experiences and what they learned from it.

New York University: New York University School of Law

Because of its extensive clinics, NYU does not offer academic credit for externships. However, many students take advantage of New York City’s plethora of opportunities and work at public interest organizations during term-time, either as volunteers or for wages.

North Carolina Central University School of Law

The Pro Bono Clinic offers students the opportunity for an externship with a number of non-profit public interest organizations and government agencies located in Durham and in nearby Raleigh, the state capital. In 2004-05, students had field placements with the following:

ACLU of NC

Carolina Dispute Settlement Services

Center for Child & Family Health Legal Clinic

Center for Responsible Lending

Child Advocacy Commission of Durham

Governor’s Advocacy Council for Persons with Disabilities

Guardian Ad Litem Program (Durham, Wake, Guilford)

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

NCABL Land Loss Prevention Project

Legal Aid of NC (Durham and Raleigh offices)

NC Fair Housing Center

NC GALA (Gay & Lesbian Attorneys Civil Rights Project)

NC Justice Center – Immigration Legal Assistance Project

NC Prisoner Legal Services

NC Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

Students in the Criminal Litigation Clinic have the opportunity to do an externship with Public Defender’s and District Attorney’s offices around North Carolina and outside the state. In 2004-05, students had field placements with the following District Attorney’s Offices: Raleigh, Pittsboro, Hillsborough, New Bern, Smithfield, Tarboro, Greenville, Goldsboro and Charlotte, NC and Elkhart, Indiana; the Public Defender’s office in Carrboro, NC. Students in the Civil Litigation Clinic may also be placed with the NC Attorney General’s Office in Raleigh. Students in the Family Law Clinic may be placed with local family law attorneys, with the Attorney Advocate for the Guardian Ad Litem Program, or with the Child Advocacy Commission of Durham.

Northeastern University: Northeastern University School of Law

Every law student at Northeastern is required to complete four full-time legal work experiences during the second and third year of law school ("co-op" as we call them) in order to graduate. Each co-op lasts 11 weeks. We operate year round on a quarterly system. Students during their upper-level years alternate every three months between doing full-time co-ops and attending classes. In a given Northeastern year, each student is expected to successfully complete two full-time co-ops.

Northern Illinois University: Northern Illinois University College of Law

Externship Program. Students spend approximately 12 to 15 hours per week practicing in regional criminal courts under the supervision of prosecutors or public defenders or practicing civil law under the supervision of regional legal services lawyers. The classroom component of the course will focus on skills development, mastery of the law required for effective representation, issues of professional responsiblity, and student presentations based on field work experiences.

Judicial Externship Program. Students spend 12 to 15 hours per week clerking for a state or federal judge. Clerkship duties include legal research and writing of memoranda and orders in cases coming before the supervising judge. In addition, students have the opportunity to observe various judicial proceedings.

Appellate Defender Clinic. Students spend approximately 12 hours per week clerking in the office of the Illinois Appellate Defender. Clerkship involves legal reserach and writing of briefs, memoranda, and motions in criminal appellate cases under the supervision of staff attorneys. In addition, students have the opportunity to observe oral arguments.

Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law

Northwestern University: Northwestern University School of Law

Combined with classroom work, externships give second- and third-year law students the opportunity to gain on-the-job training while earning class credit. They work 10 to 15 hours per week under the close supervision of lawyers, judges, government officials, and public interest professionals and also attend a seminar class once a week where they complete readings about their field, keep a journal, and write a paper or give a presentation linking their practice experience to theoretical questions.

Students bring back to the classroom valuable firsthand experience and a heightened level of confidence about appearing before judges, writing briefs or opinions, preparing cases, and working with clients.

Domestic externships are available in the following areas:

• Judicial - Students placed as law clerks with a United States district court judge or magistrate work on the preparing of research memoranda and drafting of opinions.
  
• Public Interest - Students working at a public interest legal organization represent clients in civil matters. Placements include, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Equip for Equality, Lawyers for the Creative Arts and Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, among others.
  
• Criminal Law - Students work with either prosecution or defense lawyers in the federal or state criminal justice system, including the U.S. Attorney's Office, Federal Defender's Office, Cook County State's Attorney's Office, and Cook County Public Defender's Office.
  
• Civil Government – Students work at federal, state, or local government agencies involved in civil law, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, among others.
  
• Mediation - Students can become certified mediators and conduct mediations under faculty supervision after completing mediation skills training from the Center for Conflict Resolution.

  All domestic externships that are completed during the fall or spring semesters are located in Chicago or the surrounding area. During the summer term, students may work in placements outside Chicago and participate in a practicum for externships outside Chicago.

Northwestern Law also offers a number of international externships for credit. Placements are available in the following locations:

• the International Criminal Court (The Hague, The Netherlands),
  
• the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague, The Netherlands)
  
• the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania),
  
• the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Freetown, Sierra Leone, and The Hague, The Netherlands),
  
• the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia),
  
• the War Crimes and Organized Crimes Chambers of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina),
  
• the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva, Switzerland),
  
• the Supreme Court of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel), and
  
• the Supreme Court of India (New Delhi, India).

Notre Dame: Notre Dame Law School

Legal Externship: Public Defender/Ethics

This externship involves formulating solutions to ethical problems in the criminal justice system

Legal Externship: Public Defender

Students work in the trial and misdemeanor divisions at the local county court.

Legal Externship: Public Defender

This Externship involves assisting actual public defenders in representing indigent clients.

Legal Externship: Prosecutor

This Externship involves assisting the local county prosecutor's office.

Nova Southeastern University: Shepard Broad Law Center

Criminal Justice (primarily State Attorney & Public Defender): local and out of town

Family Law (Legal Aid): local and out of town

Ohio Northern Claude W. Pettit College of Law

Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law

Each semester, the Moritz College places approximately 25 students as judicial externs to work in judges' chambers. Judges participating in the program include justices on the Supreme Court of Ohio, federal district and appellate court judges, federal magistrate judges, federal bankruptcy judges, and county domestic relations and juvenile court judges. Over the past few years, the program has expanded to include Commissions of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, and the Ohio Judicial Conference. Judicial externships provide excellent educational opportunities, including opportunities to glimpse the workings of important courts from the inside, interaction with distinguished judges, and engagement in supervised research and writing. Judicial externs attend several classes at the College, in which they are exposed to a range of topics, including the variety of judicial experiences of their classmates in the program and ethical issues specific to the judicial context. For more details go to http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/programs/judicial_extern/index.php.

Oklahoma City University: Oklahoma City University School of Law

OCU law students have opportunities to serve the community and add to their professional resumes while they are still in school. They serve as legal interns for judges of the United States Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court for Western Oklahoma through the Judicial Externship Program; they participate in actual cases in supervised settings through the Litigation Practice Externship Program, where they work in the Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office; the Oklahoma County Public Defender's Office; and Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma.

Students are also placed with governmental agencies such as the Oklahoma Corporation Commission; Oklahoma Department of Human Services and the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Government Practice Externship. Additionally, students selecting the Native American Externship can be placed at Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, U.S. Attorney's Office and with Professor Kelly Stoner working at the Apache Tribal Complex on Domestic Violence Issues.

Licensed Legal Intern Program: Oklahoma's Licensed Legal Intern Program is designed to provide supervised practical skills training in trial advocacy and professional ethics to law students who have registered with the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners and graduates who have applied to take the first Oklahoma bar examination after graduation.

Upon completion of 50 Juris Doctor credit hours, students may obtain a limited license to practice law in the state of Oklahoma. After being sworn in, they are allowed to work on actual court cases under the supervision of licensed attorneys.

Pace University School of Law

The Washington, D.C. Environmental Externship Program places students during the summer at the EPA, Department of Energy, DOJ Environmental and Natural Resources Bureau, and the Department of the Interior.

The Environmental Externship places students with regional environmental offices, including the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Westchester County District Attorney's office; the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2; the Environmental Protection Bureau of the NYS Attorney General's Office, and the NYC Law Department's Environmental Division.

The Prosecutorial Externship places students at District Attorneys' offices in Westchester, New York, Bronx, Rockland, Queens, Ulster, Sullivan and Kings Counties, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York (White Plains and Manhattan offices), the Organized Crime Task Force, the Connecticut State's Attorney's Offices, and the Bergen and Passaic County Prosecutors' Offices in New Jersey.

The Family Law Externship places students in the Family Court in White Plains or Yonkers.

The Legal Services/Public Health Externship places students with local direct legal services providers, which have included the New York City Legal Aid Society, the Children's Advocacy Center at the Westchester Institute of Human Development, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, and the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation.

Pennsylvania State University The Dickinson School of Law

• Center for Law and Education

• Federal Public Defender

• Judicial Clerkships

• Non-Profit organizations (Community Justice Project)

• Legal Services offices

• Government and non-profit placements through the Semester in Washington Program

Pepperdine University: Odell McConnell Law Center

Public Counsel, http://www.publiccounsel.org

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, http://www.lafla.org

Children's Law Center of Los Angeles, http://www.clcla.org

International Justice Mission, http://www.ijm.org

The Alliance for Children's Rights, http://www.alliance.org

Special Education Advocacy Clinic, http://law.pepperdine.edu/clinical/special_education_advocacy_clinic/

Bet Tzedek Legal Services, http://www.bettzedek.org

El Rescate, http://www.elrescate.org

Adoption Law Group

Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law, http://www.hbcfl.org/

Phoenix School of Law

Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico

Quinnipiac University School of Law

Taking advantage of Connecticut’s liberal student practice rules, Quinnipiac’s externship programs, like the Law School’s in-house clinics, provide an important bridge between theory and practice for upper-level students. Working under the supervision of experienced lawyers, judges, and mediators in a network of over three-hundred participating placements in offices and courthouses throughout the state, in New York, and in neighboring New England states, QUSL externs apply the lessons they have learned in the classroom to actual legal problems, and in doing so, begin to understand how legal doctrine operates in the real world. Through their work with both their field supervisors and the faculty supervisors who arrange their placements and teach the seminar components of the externship courses, students also develop the kinds of mentoring relationships that will be critical to their professional development, both during and after law school. Most importantly, they develop and refine the lawyering skills and professional values necessary for the competent and ethical representation of clients.

The Law School’s curriculum currently includes nine field placement programs, eight of which place students in public interest/public sector practice settings: the Criminal Justice Externship, the Family and Juvenile Law Externship, the Judicial Externship, the Legal Services Externship, the Legislative Externship, the Mediation Externship, the Public Interest Externship, and our externship sequel, Field Placement II. Through participation in these programs, students can explore one or more of the practice settings that may await them after graduation.

Detailed information about the programs is available at http://law.quinnipiac.edu/x109.xml.

Regent University: School of Law

Two different courses are offered: one for legal aid and non-profit externs, the second for governmental and judicial externs. The subjects covered in these courses include ethics, case management, client interviewing, factual investigation and related topic.

Roger Williams University: Ralph R. Papitto School of Law

Students enrolled in the Public Interest Externship Program work 2 days each week in a public interest law office, and take a weekly seminar. Students receive 3 pass-fail credits for their work in the field, and 2 graded credits for the seminar. Students may work in one of about 20 pre-approved placements in Rhode Island, Boston, or Southeastern Massachusetts, or may set up their own placement in conjunction with the program director.

http://law.rwu.edu/sites/fils

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Center for Law and Justice (Newark)

Rutgers-Newark provides our law students with the opportunity to receive credit for work done in one of several field placements to. In addition to the on-site work, the students are expected to attend regular seminar meetings and complete.

Field placement opportunities include:

• Judicial Externship
• Attorney General Externship
• Intellectual Property Law Externship
• Immigration Law Externship
• Externship with the Office of the Federal Public Defender

Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey School of Law, Camden

The law school conducts an extensive externship program whereby third-year students gain academic credit while working twelve to fifteen hours each week for various public and private nonprofit agencies and for state and federal judges. In addition to the agency work, students attend seminars relating to the work done in their placements, and write journals reflecting on their experiences.

Saint John's University School of Law

Saint Louis University: Saint Louis University School of Law

The extern program offers students the opportunity to work under the supervision of a practicing attorney in settings outside the law school. Specific locations may vary from one semester to another, but every effort is made to match students with an office that addresses the student’s primary interest.

For example, students seeking litigation experience may be placed with a state prosecutor’s office or with the U.S. Attorney’s office, while those wanting experience working with individual clients might work at one of the legal aid programs in the St. Louis area. An interest in family law or children’s issues can be accommodated through the Family Court, the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program or the Missouri Protection and Advocacy program. Students wanting to emphasize civil rights issues or employment law can be placed with the ACLU or the EEOC. For those students earning a Certificate in Health Law, the externship program offers in-house counsel opportunities at area hospitals as well as opportunities with relevant state and federal agency offices to fulfill the health law practice requirement.

This list is not exhaustive, as the St. Louis area includes many not-for-profit and government offices which welcome the chance to mentor law students in a practice setting.

Saint Mary’s University of San Antonio: St. Mary’s University of San Antonio School of Law

Texas Access to Justice Internship

Saint Thomas University: St. Thomas University School of Law (FL)

St. Thomas offers the following field placements in civil and criminal offices (two semesters, eight credit hours):

• State Attorney's Offices (Prosecutors) in 3 Counties
• Public Defender's Offices in 3 Counties
• Legal Aid Offices in 2 counties
• Judges' Offices (United States District Court and Florida State Courts)
• State Court Programs: Domestic Violence Court and Family Court
• Immigration: Federal Krome North Processing Center

Samford University: Cumberland School of Law

Cumberland's Experiential Learning Program

This program provides opportunities for students to work in designated field placements under qualified and respected supervisors for academic credit. These placements provide students an opportunity to develop practical lawyering skills, gain knowledge about specialized practice areas, gain a perspective on the law in application, sample different career paths, and make career connections. The program includes a variety of three credit externship placements with government agencies, federal judges, and corporations. Students may receive credit for no more than two placements (including any one credit judicial observation placement).

Judicial Observation

Students sign up to work within the office of a state court judge. Students are required to work a minimum of 56 hours and submit the following written work: a statement of goals at the beginning of the semester; a weekly report of hours with narrative description of activities; submission of a research paper; and a reflection essay. Participating students receive one hour pass/fail credit.

Externship I

Students enrolled in any externship must also enroll in this class component. This externship class meets one hour each week. This class will address some substantive topics; negotiation, trial, and other lawyering skills; professionalism and ethical issues; communication with supervisors, clients and others; workplace problems; and other issues applicable to all externs. Some classes will have break out sessions to address specific topics relevant to particular types of placement. Students enrolled in the externship class submit written work, including the following: a statement of goals at the beginning of the semester; a weekly report of hours with narrative description of activities; submission of a research paper; a reflection essay; and others assigned by the instructor. Participating students receive one hour of graded credit.

Externship II

This class component is required should a student choose to enroll in a second externship. The class would have the same requirements as Externship I. Participating students receive one hour of graded credit.

Judicial Externship I

This is an externship with a federal judge. Othe requirements include: membership on American Journal of Trial Advocate or Law Review or other evidence of superior writing skills. Students are required to work a minimum of 120 hours in the placement. Participating students receive two hours pass/fail credit.

Corporate Externship I

This is an externship placement with a corporate legal office. Students are required to work a minimum of 120 hours in the placement. Participating students receive two hours pass/fail credit.

Litigation Extension I

This externship involves placement in a litigation office such as the District Attorney's Office, Public Defender's Office, Legal Aid Society, and Legal Services of Metro Birmingham. Students must be certified under the Alabama Rule for Legal Internship and have completed Basic Skills in Trial Advocacy. Students are required to work a minimum of 120 hours in the placement. Participating students receive two hours pass/fail credit.

Government Agency Externship I

This externship involves placement in a government agency, such as the U.S. Attorney's Office, IRS, National Labor Relations Board or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Students are required to work a minimum of 120 hours in the placement. Participating students receive two hours pass/fail credit.

Santa Clara University: Santa Clara University School of Law

Civil Practice/HighTech Law Internship program provides students with the opportunity to apply and improve their legal skills through on-the-job work experience with law firms, governmental agencies, non-profit organizations and high tech companies. The purpose of the internship is to teach students about how lawyers function through practical experience. Under the guidance of a supervising attorney, students apply their substantive knowledge of the law to analyze legal issues and complete work assignments. Students must work a minimum of 225 hours during the semester, must simultaneously complete a classroom component and may not be paid for their work (with no expectation of hire after completion of the internship).

Seattle University: Seattle University School of Law

Seattle University School of Law recognizes that experiential learning is an important component of a law student’s legal training. Experiential learning at the law school takes two primary forms: either the traditional clinic or the externship program, which places students with judges or practitioners.

A traditional clinic can offer a student the opportunity to represent a client in a live case, and a well-supervised externship program can help a student learn to manage a heavier case-load or to complete a variety of attorney work products in judicial chambers or practice settings. The externship experience helps the student move from law school to practice more easily. Both the faculty supervisor and the site supervisor guide the extern in reflecting on experiences in practice. This reflection enhances the practice experience by providing context for an extern’s reactions to situations and observations.

The externship program’s goal is to provide externs with a rewarding, well-supervised experience in judicial chambers or a practice setting that will ease their transition into practicing law, will instill professionalism, and will increase awareness of social justice concepts.

The externship program operates within the Law School’s mission, which focuses on social justice, especially access to justice, concepts.

For more information, see: http://www.law.seattleu.edu/externships?mode=flash

Seton Hall University: Seton Hall University School of Law

We offer many exciting externships and gladly work with employers in government and non-profit legal agencies to expand placements available to students. The students who took part in the program from June 2004 to May 2005 externed with the Federal Public Defenders' Office, the United States Attorneys' Office, state and federal courts, and other outstanding government and non-profit agencies. Through the Externship Program, students obtain credit hours and hands-on legal experience. For information, please contact Stephanie Kauflin, Esq., Associate Director of the Office of Career Services, kauflist@shu.edu, 973-642-8778.

South Texas College: South Texas College of Law

Public Interest Clinic – Students serve with local non-profit agencies or charitable organizations. Placements include the Legal Aid Society, the Texas Defender Project, Catholic Charities, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, and many others. Students enroll for three or four semester credit hours, and perform a minimum of 180 to 240 hours of service.

Southern Illinois University School of Law

Students in the Externship Clinic work in city, state, and federal or non-profit law offices, or as judicial law clerks. Externs learn research techniques, fact investigation, legal document drafting, computer skills, and client interviewing and counseling. Students with a 711 license can appear in court and represent clients under attorney supervision.

Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law

Southern University Law Center

Southwestern University: Southwestern Law School

Southwestern offers a variety of externships in public interest settings including, but not limited to Alliance for Children's Rights, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Dependency Court Legal Services and Public Counsel. Externships can be done anywhere in the country, and in the past, externships have been done abroad. Recently, two students externed at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.

Stanford Law School

The externship program at Stanford Law School provides second- and third-year students with a focused semester-long educational experience by combining fieldwork in nonprofit and government organizations with structured coursework or independent study.

The Standard Externship Program (SEP) offers placements in Bay Area organizations, and the Special Circumstances Externship Program (SCEP) allows students to apply for placements in organizations outside the Bay Area. Many SLS students take this opportunity to work on the East Coast or abroad. In the past, SLS students have traveled to Tanzania, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Switzerland, Brazil, and Costa Rica to serve in externships.

Stetson University: Stetson University College of Law

Stetson offers several Judicial Internship Programs. Placements include local, state and federal trial courts, Florida Supreme Court, and Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal.

Suffolk University Law School

Civil and Judicial Internship Program – http://www.law.suffolk.edu/academic/clinical/internship/int/

Battered Women's Advocacy Program – http://www.law.suffolk.edu/academic/clinical/women.cfm

Syracuse University: College of Law

Syracuse offers the following Externships:

• Advocacy Externships
• Judicial Externships
• Public Interest Externships

For information, contact Professor Arlene Kanter, Director, or visit http://www.law.syr.edu/academics/academics.asp?what=externships.

Temple University: James E. Beasley School of Law

Temple’s clinical program consists of both clinics and field placements. Temple has sixteen public interest field placement courses, twelve of which are offered in the spring and fall, and four are offered in only one semester. These courses include placements doing local and federal criminal defense and prosecution, mediation, housing, bankruptcy, homeless advocacy, environmental law and lesbian, gay and transgendered law. Temple does not authorize field placements for academic credit outside their clinic program. More information on Temple's clinical program can be found at http://www.law.temple.edu/servlet/RetrievePage?site=TempleLaw&page=Current_Clinical_Programs

Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Texas Tech University School of Law

• Students may take an internship for credit in which they work under the supervision of a lawyer or a judge. The internship course includes a classroom component, and students meet together with faculty members to discuss their work experiences in their intership placement.
• Access to Justice Internship Program – The Texas Access to Justice Commission has joined with all nine law schools in Texas to offer an innovative academic internship program focused on increasing access to justice. Two students will be selected from Texas Tech to participate in this program and intern in the offices of Lone Star Legal Aid, the Texas Civil Rights Project, and Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid located in East Texas, South Texas and El Paso. General information is available on the Texas Access to Justice Commission website ( www.texasatj.org/intersnship). A stipend is provided to those selected for the program which involves a minimum of seven weeks.

Texas Wesleyan University School of Law

Thomas Jefferson School of Law: Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Through the Clinical Education Program, students work with government agencies, nonprofit organizations and firms or organizations that directly deliver legal services to indigent people.

Companion Courses:

Clinical Education I -- A class dedicated to supporting and enhancing the students experience during their field placement; 1unit-5units depending on the student’s time commitment to the organization; students can begin enrolling in their third semester.

Clinical Education II -- A class for students who have already completed one field placement for credit. Emphasis is placed on building upon the skill sets that were developed during the second placement; 1 unit- 5 units depending on hours students commit to field placement; students can enroll during their fourth semester.

Judicial Seminar -- Class specifically designed for students working in chambers; 1unit - 5 units depending on hours committed to the placement; students can begin enrolling during their third semester.

Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Cooley Law School offers over 1,000 externship sites around the country many of them in public interest fields such as disability law, environmental law, family violence, immigration law, Indian law, legal services, and judicial, legislative, prosecutor, and defender externships. The heart of an externship is the hands-on experience students receive as they work closely with an experienced lawyer. One extern said of his field supervisor, "He cared about me and let me learn as much as I wanted to learn. He gave me projects that most law students will never do. I filed a brief in federal court and accompanied my clients as they became U.S. citizens." An extern works at a field placement for a minimum of four hours a week for every hour of credit given for the entire term. Placements are generally three credits per term, although placements may earn up to 10 credits. In addition to the valuable relationship between the student and field supervisor, externs work directly with a Cooley faculty supervisor, who is responsible for monitoring the placement, visiting the site, and facilitating the extern's learning by meeting regularly with the student.

Touro College: Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Touro administers Civil and Criminal Externship Clinics where individual students are placed in both public and private firms. Touro also has a Rotation Clinic where students are placed at the US Attorney's Office and Nassau/Suffolk Law Services for extended periods.

Tulane University: Tulane University School of Law

The principal externship focus is judicial. Students are placed with the Federal District Court or with the Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans. Students are required to enroll in a year-long Externship Seminar. Five semester credits are awarded upon successful completion of the year-long externship and seminar.

Tulane Law school also offers six year-long externship placements in the following government and non-profit settings: the Regional Office of the NLRB in New Orleans; the Office of Administrative Law Judges of the U.S. Dept. of Labor (this placement is called the Maritime Externship as the docket of this field office consists largely of cases arising under the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act); and the Justice Center (a New Orleans coalition of non-profit offices dedicated to civil rights). Under the umbrella of the Justice Center are the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center (dedicated to indigent capital defense) and the Innocence Project New Orleans (providing legal representation to wrongfully convicted prisoners serving life sentences).

In addition, the Domestic Violence Externship is a three-credit course, which includes a two-credit field placements and a one credit classroom component; it is offered each semester, as well as for two credits during the summer. Students are placed with the New Orleans Legal Assistance Corporation, where they assist in the representation of victims of domestic violence.

University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY

Judicial Clerkship -- Students receive credit as clerks for area judges at the State and Federal Court level.

Legislative Externship -- This externship enables students to receive credit for unpaid legal and law-related work in the local offices of state and federal legislators.

Prisoners Legal Services Externship -- Students work with the local offices of Prisoners Legal Services to provide civil legal representation to incarcerated individuals.

Environmental Law Externship -- Students work with the New York State Attorneys Generals Office on environmental cases that the State is prosecuting.

Public Interest Externship -- With permission and through coordination of the Externship director, students may extern with not-for-profit or government offices in Western New York and other areas of the country for credit.

For all programs, students keep journals and/or submit copies of written work.

University of Akron: C. Blake McDowell Law Center

The University of Akron School of Law Legal Clinic places students for credit in any public setting or not-for-profit setting where there is an attorney present to supervise the student. In addition, if a student identifies a site, we explore the opportunities and arrange for the placement.

Externships and Internships are coordinated by staff of The Legal Clinic. Academic credit is given to students who work 90 to 120 hours per semester at a public interest, public sector or non profit organization under the supervision of an attorney. There is also a classroom component to this.

The Public Interest Fellowship Program is designed to support the public interest endeavors of students in terms of related work experiences. It is an opportunity for students to gain relevant public interest experiences and legal skills. The Program is run three times a year, i.e., during each semester as well as summer. Students select the public sector, public interest or non profit organization that they wish to have their legal training (under the supervision of an attorney). The students are given consideration for an award based upon their hours worked and available funding. Public Interest Fellowships take place at legal services offices, non profit organizations, e.g., AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly as well as at local, state and federal government offices.

University of Alabama: University of Alabama School of Law

The University of Alabama's externship program offers second and third-year students experience in client advocacy, litigation, and the judicial process in a structured, supervised learning environment. Externship supervisors, who are practicing attorneys and judges, are carefully selected by the full-time faculty member in charge of the program. The externships provide students with an opportunity for a deeper understanding of professional responsibility issues, analysis of procedural and substantive law, and appreciation of the legal process.

During the summer, placements (5 credits) are available with offices specializing in criminal law (e.g., United States Attorneys, District Attorneys, Public Defenders, and Alabama's Attorney General) and civil law (e.g., U.S. Attorneys' Offices, Alabama Supreme Court Library's Research Assistance Division, Governor's Legal Counsel's office, Legal Services, National Labor Relations Board, and University of Alabama Counsel's office). Students work full time during a 6-week session under the direct supervision of attorneys in the offices to which they are assigned. They also attend externship classes at the Law School and submit papers during and at the conclusion of the externship.

During the academic year, placements (2 credits) are available in the chambers of state and federal judges and magistrates. Students work a minimum of 120 hours per semester in the office where they are placed. Duties include hearing and pretrial preparation and assistance on trials and appeals.

University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

We have numerous field placement opportunities:

1. Arizona Legislative Legal Internships in Senate, House of Representatives, and Legislative Council (6 units Spring, 3rd semester);

2. Criminal Defense Clinic - Students work in public defenders offices in Tucson on either felony, misdemeanor and juvenile cases. (4 units Fall, 3 units Spring, 3rd semester);

3. Criminal Prosecution Clinic - Students serve as prosecuting attorneys in a Tucson prosecution office, working in areas of felony, misdemeanor and juvenile law areas. (4 units Fall, 3 units Spring, 3rd semester);

4. Federal Bankruptcy Court Pro Se Program - Two-semester internship with US Bankruptcy Court, helping serve consumer debtors who have filed bankruptcy cases without aid of an attorney. In adversary proceeding context, students conduct and participate in discovery and research and write motions on behalf of clients. (2-semester course, 4 units total, 5th semester);

5. Internships with US Senate, House of Representatives and White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (6-10 units, Fall, Spring and Summer, 3rd semester);

6. Internships with US Border Protection, Immigration Court, and US Dept. of Homeland Security Immigration & Customs Enforcement. (2-3 units, Fall, Spring, Summer, 3rd semester)

University of Arkansas at Little Rock: William H. Bowen School of Law

Public Service Externship Course

University of Arkansas School of Law

University of Baltimore School of Law

University of California - Los Angeles

University of California at Davis: University of California at Davis School of Law

Public Interest Law Externship

Students in the public interest clinical have a variety of experiences depending on where they work. Placements range from government agencies, such as the U.S. Attorney's Office, to nonprofit law firms to legal aid offices, like Legal Services of Northern California. Students are involved in direct legal services, community education, litigation, community economic development, mediation and lobbying.

Judicial Externship

Students work full- or part-time as a part of the staff in state and federal courtrooms. Students work at the California Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the California Court of Appeal, and state trial courts. Students' day-to-day assignments vary somewhat depending on the court, the judge, and the judge's calendar.

Federal and State Taxation Externship

Students work for the District Counsel's office of the Internal Revenue Service or Franchise Tax Board on substantive and procedural taxation issues. Students learn a great deal about tax court litigation, collection practice, and bankruptcy practice. Students are given a case file and work up the case from start to finish.

Criminal Justice Externship

King Hall students gain practical experience in criminal law by working in county, state and federal offices full- or part-time. Students working for county district attorney's and public defender's offices are placed in Sacramento, Yolo, San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, Solano, and Stanislaus counties. Other students are placed with the Office of the State Public Defender or with the Special Assistant Attorney General. Students engage in factual investigation, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, motion practice and trials under State Bar rules.

Environmental Law Externship

Students in environmental law clinicals come face-to-face with the tough issues related to environmental problems like water rights, hazardous waste, jurisdictional questions, superfund cleanup, land use planning, flood control, water rights, and landfills.

Legislative Process Externship

Students may work as staffers to legislators or legislative committees, the Governor's legislative staff, or with one of Sacramento's many lobbying organizations. The Legislative Externship is part of the King Hall's Legislative Lawyering Program that includes courses in legislative process, legislative drafting, and legislative research.

University of California, Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall)

There are two components to the field placement program, both of which are supervised by the field placement coordinator.

The first is the practitioner-supervised clinics, in which students receive academic credit (up to six units) for working in public interest organizations or governmental agencies under the supervision of a practicing attorney. There are presently 50 Bay Area clinical placements on the Law School's approved list, primarily in the areas of criminal law, environmental law, governmental service and service to disadvantaged groups.

The second component is the judicial externship, in which students work as externs for local, federal or state judges. Students apply directly to the judges for an extern position, and those who enroll in a full-time externship must also enroll in the companion Judicial Extern Seminar.

Contact the Field Placement Coordinator at 510/643-7387 or the Program Assistant at 510/643-2256.

Approved field placements can be performed for academic credit.

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/fieldplacement/

University of California-Hastings

Hastings legal externships include outplacement clinics and judicial externships. Faculty members conduct an accompanying seminar for each outplacement clinic that focuses on relevant substantive law, legal skills, and social justice issues.

Outplacement clinics at Hastings:

• Criminal Practice Clinic
  
• Environmental Law Clinic
  
• Immigrant’s Rights Clinic
  
• Legislation Clinic
  
• Local Government Law Clinic
  
• Worker’s Rights Clinic

Judicial Externships – Students work with Federal and state court judges at the trial and appellate levels for between 3 to 9 units of credit.

University of Chicago: University of Chicago Law School

None.

University of Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati College of Law

Students receive a total of three credit hours for extern placements (one graded credit hour for the classroom portion and two pass/fail credit hours for the placement). Each student must work at least 100 hours at his/her placement site in order to receive credit. Students may only do one legal externship, which are limited to government offices or non-profit and public interest organizations. There is also a judicial externship program that is administered separately from the legal externship course. Students may only do one judicial externship.

University of Colorado: School of Law

The Law School offers Externships with one credit hour for 50 hours of work with seven credits maximum towards the Juris Doctor degree. Externship work cannot be compensated and students can be employed by a government, public interest or for-profit entity both in and outside of Colorado. Field placements have a mandatory substantive writing component and a classroom component where students meet once per semester to discuss their projects. Types of local public interest placements have included: Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center, Western Resource Advocates, United States Attorney’s Office, Colorado Legal Services, Colorado Public Defenders Office, Rocky Mountain Immigration Advocacy Network, Native American Rights Fund, Seventeenth Judicial District Truancy Reduction Project, the Wilderness Society, and many more.

Many students also have had field placements outside of the Denver Metro Area in Glenwood Springs, Monument, Pueblo, New York, Massachusetts, Washington D.C, New Jersey, Iowa, California, and the Netherlands, to name a few.

University of Connecticut: University of Connecticut School of Law

The Law School offers students the opportunity to develop an extensive array of externships for academic credit in public interest settings that are directly related to their individualized interests. Most recently, Law School students have earned academic credit for externships with organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, Connecticut Legal Services and Western Massachusetts Legal Services.

University of Dayton: University of Dayton School of Law

The School of Law offers a judicial externship placement (county, state or federal court) for second or third year students.

University of Denver: Sturm College of Law

The University of Denver has an extensive externship program that has included substantial numbers of students placed with organizations and some government agencies performing public interest work. For further information see http://www.law.du.edu/internships

In addition, Professor Rock Pring supervises the Environmental/Natural Resources Law Internship Program (ENRLIP). The great majority of these placements for academic credit are public government (federal, state, and local) or public interest (national, state, and local) entities. For a list of placements, please see http://www.law.du.edu/enrlip/employer_list.htm

University of Detroit Mercy School of Law

University of Florida: Fredric G. Levin College of Law

Every year the Center for Career Services offers for-credit externships in areas such as: family law, domestic violence, civil rights law, consumer protection, human rights, prisoner rights, state and local government law with all levels of the judiciary and various agencies.

University of Georgia School of Law

• Civil Externship Clinic- Students learn from practice with attorneys and judges in judicial, government and private nonprofit positions. Placements include judges’ chambers, litigation offices, planning services, government agencies and private nonprofits. Many allow courtroom advocacy under student practice rules.

• Prosecutorial Clinic – Participants serve as student attorneys in state and federal prosecutorial offices throughout northeast Georgia. Third-year students prepare and present cases to the grand jury and conduct preliminary, bond and probation revocation hearings. They also work with police investigators to present cases and draft felony indictments.

• Capital Assistance Project – Initiated at the suggestion of the Supreme Court of Georgia, students work at agencies defending individuals charged with or convicted of capital crimes. Students conduct valuable research and writing projects under the guidance of attorneys in relation to these matters.

University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law

University of Houston Law Center

Public Interest Externships are available for government and non-profit organization. With the University of Houston renowned health law program, we have several placements in the areas of disability law, government benefits, public health and health and human services. We also have strong ties to our LSC funded legal services agencies in the State of Texas and placement students with Lone Star Legal Aid, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, and Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse. Government offices at the federal, state, and local level complete our placement offerings. Our law school is fortunate to be located in one of the largest legal markets and as such students have many placement options close to home. Students are encouraged, however to also consider externships outside of the area, particularly in the summer month when the field placement class is designed to facilitate remote opportunities.

University of Idaho: College of Law

The College of Law offers four externship options for students. Semester in Practice – The Semester in Practice is a 12-credit option for third year students interested in spending their sixth semester in the Boise area working in the public sector or for a non-profit association. The Director of External Programs teaches a contemporaneous classroom component.

Public Service Externship - Externship students in the summer can earn up to five classroom credits in the Classroom Credit Public Service Externship. These students must attend a contemporaneous classroom component.

Public Externship – Some students participate in a Public Externship program, which does not have a classroom component. Students who select this option are generally in distant locations and unable to attend weekly classes. These students can apply for up to four non-classroom credits toward graduation.

During the academic year, students can do an externship with a public entity (again with the restriction that only four non-classroom credits can be applied toward graduation) or a private firm (one-credit externship opportunity).

University of Illinois College of Law

Clinical Externships

Clinical Externships offer students the opportunity to receive law credit for uncompensated work for a non profit organization, government agency, or judicial experience. In addition to meeting houly work requirements with the sponsoring agency, the students must also submit periodic reports, a skills analysis and a final evaluation of the experience. The work must be legal in nature and conducted under the supervision of an attorney.

South African Human Rights Commission Internship

Under the supervision of a dedicated faculty member, student at the College of Law may participate in an intership with the South African Human Rights Commission. This internship, funded by the College, allows the students to participate actively in the Commission and to be assigned cases of their own. In the past, assignments have also included investigations into the actions of the Department of Justice.

University of Iowa College of Law

Students arrange externships with non-profit or government legal offices under faculty supervision. Prior to 2006, the typical arrangement was six credits, four ungraded and the remaining two earned by a research paper.

In the fall of 2006, the faculty approved a second type of non-clinic legal externship (“summer legal placement”) for three credits. Students must spend at least 150 on-site hours. The paper requirement is suspended, though students will be required to complete a series of writings over the summer.

University of Kansas: School of Law

Field placements are offered through five of our clinics. In the Criminal Prosecution Clinic students are assigned to work in various local prosecutors' offices, the state attorney general's office and offices of the United States Attorney. In addition to Lawrence, placements are available in Kansas City, Olathe, Topeka, Ottawa, and Lenexa. Field placements with the Externship clinic must be approved, but may vary from year to year. The Elder Law Externship places students in Kansas Legal Services field offices in Olathe, Topeka or Kansas City. Students in the Legislative clinic are placed with individual legislators in Topeka. Students in the Judicial Clerkship clinic are placed with trial judges in state and federal district courts, including bankruptcy courts and federal magistrate courts. Locations include Lawrence, Kansas City, Topeka, and Olathe.

University of Kentucky College of Law

Prison Internship (Law 967)

The prison internship is offered each semester and in the summer, and any second- or third-year student may register for the course. The course gives students the opportunity to provide legal assistance to inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington. Many of these inmates are indigent.

Innocence Project Externship (Law 957)

Students enrolled in the Innocence Project Externship help members of the State’s Department of Public Advocacy research claims of actual innocence.

Kentucky Public Defender’s Office Externship (Law 900)

This new experimental course gives students a chance to represent indigent defendants in the Lexington Public Defender’s Office. This course is being offered on an experimental basis and is open to third-year students eligible for admission under the student practice rule. In this two credit course, students are required to work a total of 100 hours over the course of the semester. Students may only provide research support in connection with felony cases in Circuit Court. A very significant proportion of student work is to be accomplished under the student practice rule in cases before the Family Court and Juvenile Court, and in District Court misdemeanor cases.

University of La Verne College of Law

Our students may choose an externship with a government agency, public interest group, non-profit legal agency or legal service office. The choice must be law-related with sufficient pedagogical content to warrant unit credit. Our student must be supervised by an attorney and of course not paid.

University of Louisville: Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

We offer externships at the Public Defender's Office, Department of Public Advocacy, and Center for Women & Families, as well as Legal Aid & Judicial internships

University of Maine School of Law

Field placements are available through our Externship program, which gives students the opportunity to gain legal experience in the community and simultaneously receive feedback on their work from seasoned professionals with guidance and support from a faculty member. An externship enables selected second- and third-year students to apply the theories and skills gained in the classroom to a real-life legal setting. Through an externship a student may deepen his or her knowledge of a particular substantive area already explored in the classroom or broaden his or her understanding of the practice of law in a setting in which he or she might not otherwise work. A concurrent seminar taught by the Program Director facilitates the students' integration of the experience and encourages the extern to become a reflective practitioner and self-directed learner.

Students are selected for the program based upon application and earn six credits for participation. Some externships require prerequisite coursework. Externs work 18 hours per week over the course of the semester. Public service placements are all generally within the state of Maine and may include such organizations as Pine Tree Legal Assistance(www.ptla.org), Maine Attorney General's Office, U.S. Attorney, Worker's Compensation Board - Advocacy Division, and the Conservation Law Foundation ( http://www.clf.org/).

University of Maryland: University of Maryland School of Law

The University of Maryland School of Law Asper Fellowship Program offers opportunities for law students to obtain credit for supervised law-related work with state and federal judges and with attorneys employed by governmental and not-for-profit organizations. These fellowships, named in memory of the late Professor Lewis D. Asper, are intended to expose students to the practical workings of the legal system and to help students develop insights into the process of judicial decision making or the skills and values required for the practice of law.

Furthermore, in an effort to better integrate the Asper experience with a student's legal education, students participating in the Asper Program are required, in addition, to attend bi-weekly classes conducted by the Asper Administrator. Classroom sessions include presentations by practicing attorneys and judges, including a presentation on Pro Bono Opportunities for Law Students & Attorneys, followed by discussion of the presentation and its relationship to the students' field experiences.

The law school offers externships in governmental and not-for-profit organizations. The emphasis is on the intensity of the learning experience and the close interaction between the externships and the law school's academic program. Most externships are accompanied by workshops, tutorials, or seminars to underscore the relationship between principle and practice. Externs may earn from 4 to 13 credits, depending upon the nature of the work and hours devoted to it. Information about the externship opportunities and Faculty Externship Committee is located on the law school website at www.law.umaryland.edu.

University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law

Numerous for-credit and not-for-credit opportunities. For-credit opportunities include: judicial (a number of federal and state judges), bankruptcy, NLRB, U.S. Attorney, State’s Attorney, Public Defender’s Office, Memphis Area Legal Services.

University of Miami School of Law

The School of Law offers many opportunities for internships/externships. Direct placement opportunities are supported by the HOPE Public Interest Resource Center and the Career Planning Center. In addition, many students obtain placements through the award-winning litigation skills program.

University of Michigan: University of Michigan Law School

Externships offer an exciting opportunity to augment classroom study with real-world work experience. Students (under the guidance of both a faculty member and an attorney supervisor) may immerse themselves for an entire semester in legal work for government agencies or non-profits such as the U.S. State Department, Equal Justice Initiative, AIRE Center of London and NAACP Legal Defense Fund. There is also the annual South African externship program, which allows a limited number of students to perform externships in South Africa. During the 2006-2007 academic year, 25 students participated in this program.

Michigan's externship program is designed to provide individual students with advanced training and research opportunities in areas of particular interest to them that go beyond what is traditionally offered in a classroom setting. A student may develop a proposal that builds on work the student has done i