Learning by Doing: Externships
Externships broaden your employment opportunities by providing you with practical legal experience often not available through paid clerking or volunteer positions.
Serving as excellent preparation for post-graduate judicial clerkships, judicial externships acquaint you with the day-to-day operation of the courts as you work with trial and appellate court judges and their law clerks to research and write legal memoranda and draft opinions.
In legal externships, you'll work in civil or criminal practice in a specialized area of your choice with supervising attorneys in federal, state and local government agencies, corporate legal departments, or public interest organizations.
Recent Legal Externship Placements
U.S. Attorney's Offices, Northern District of Illinois
& Middle District of Florida
State's Attorney's Offices--Cook, DuPage, Lake & Kane counties
Public Defender's Offices--Cook, DuPage, Lake & Kane counties
Internal Revenue Service
National Labor Relations Board
Federal Trade Commission
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration Court |
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Arlington, Virginia
U.S. Navy, Trial Service Office
East
Office of the Federal Public Defender, Washington, D.C.
Illinois Attorney General's Office
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of the Cook County Public Guardian
Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
City of Chicago, Law Department |
Council on American-Islamic Relations
AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Washington, D.C.
Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Modern Asia Environmental Holdings Inc., Bangkok
Zhonglun W&D Law Firm, Beijing |
Learn more about externships at Chicago-Kent.
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