Externship Programs
The Externship programs available
are:
Access2Practice Legal Externship
Program
Environmental and Energy Law
Externship
Judicial Externship Program
Labor and Employment Law Externship
Access2Practice
Legal Externship Program
Information and Application Form
Professor
Vivien C. Gross
Chicago-Kent has long recognized that classes and textbooks alone
are not sufficient to complete the education and transformation
of students into lawyers. Students also need practical experience
in real-world legal work to acquire skills not accessible in the
traditional classroom and gain insight into the strategic and
ethical dimensions of the legal profession.
Some students may gain useful experience if they are hired as
part-time clerks. But most students don't have access to paid
or volunteer positions in a legal setting of their choice and/or
one that teaches them the skills they want to acquire.
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Legal Externship Program - Summer
2012
Legal Externship Program - Fall 2012
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW
EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Professor Keith
Harley
The Environmental and Energy Law Externship Program provides
students in the Environmental
Law Certificate Program with the opportunity to extern for
one-credit graded 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.
Students may enroll in their second or third year of law school
and put in a minimum of eight hours per week during the fourteen
week semester. Students gain a variety of experiences at
these placements: research and writing of memoranda and briefs,
and preparation for and attendance at negotiation sessions, court
hearings, and client meetings.
JUDICIAL
EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Professor Vivien
C. Gross
Judicial Externship is a 4-credit hour Pass/Low Pass/Fail program
open to students in their second and third year who want to do
legal research and writing for a federal appellate, district or
magistrate judge or an Illinois appellate or circuit court judge.
The program is offered in Fall and Spring semesters and in the
Summer sessions as well.
A judicial externship enables a student to become involved in
particular legal problems through research and writing, and to
contribute to the resolution of those problems by writing memoranda
and drafting opinions. Read More
LABOR/EMPLOYMENT LAW EXTERNSHIP
PROGRAM
Professor Martin
H. Malin
The Labor/Employment Law Externship Program is offered
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.
Externs spend approximately fifteen-hours per week during
the fourteen week semester at their designated placements and
attend periodic meetings with the faculty supervisor. Students
in the program enroll in a three-credit field-work course graded
on a pass/low pass/fail basis and a one-credit graded classroom
course.
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