The London programme takes place every spring semester at King`s College London. The program consists of two main components, one classroom and one experience-based. The face-to-face component consists of four courses. At the heart of the London program is its internship component. It is an attempt to replicate in an unfamiliar environment some of the features of the law school`s highly successful practice semester program. London students have worked with a number of non-profit environmental and human rights organisations, including Interights, Liberty, Justice, Article 19, as well as the Financial Services Authority and several leading London law firms. Students spend 20 to 25 hours per week in their practicum, working under strict supervision and keeping journals of their research, writing, and observations. These are then discussed at a regular seminar led by the director. In addition, students attend legal and political institutions and have library privileges at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, which is also part of the University of London. Charleston School of Law`s clerkship program offers its students a unique and real-world experience outside the classroom. Through the clerkship program, students gain hands-on experience in various legal professions and earn academic credits. Students can work with one of BU Law`s many partner organizations, or students are invited to create a new internship.
Internships can be done in a non-profit organization, government agency, or legislator, for a judge, in a corporate legal department, or in small/medium-sized law firms. All work must be carried out under the direct supervision of a lawyer. Placements may or may not be remunerated. Each student`s field experience is supported by a mandatory seminar. Small and medium law firm Externat – A new program from spring 2018. This course focuses on a range of topics unique to legal practice in small and medium-sized law firms, with a particular focus on developing the skills required for successful legal practice in this environment. Students gain basic knowledge about small businesses and learn how to cultivate mentors, research and respond to feedback, undertake challenging tasks, and measure progress toward professional development goals. This seminar is mandatory for students working in small/medium-sized law firms. OCU law students have the opportunity to serve the community and expand their professional resume during their studies. They serve as legal interns for judges of all state courts of appeals, for federal and bankruptcy courts, and for the district court as part of the judicial clerkship program.
Students participate in real-life cases in supervised environments through the litigation practice clerkship program, where they work at the Oklahoma County District Attorney`s Office, the Oklahoma County Public Defender`s Office, and Oklahoma Legal Aid Services. The Government Practice Externship places students at institutions such as the Oklahoma Legislature, the Board of Pardons and Parole, the Corporations Commission, the Department of Agriculture, and the Oklahoma City Councilman`s Office. The Native American Externship places students with tribal judges and prosecutors, the U.S. District Attorney`s Office, and the Oklahoma Indian Legal Service. We offer many exciting internships and are happy to work with employers in government and nonprofit legal agencies to expand internships for students. The students, who participated in the program from June 2004 to May 2005, interned with the Federal Office of Public Defenders, the United States Office of the Attorney, state and federal courts, and other prominent government and nonprofit agencies. Through the clerkship program, students receive credit hours and hands-on legal experience. For more information, please contact Stephanie Kauflin, Esq., Associate Director, Office of Career Services, kauflist@shu.edu, 973-642-8778.
Second- and third-year students can participate in the Day School Program, a four-credit, one-hour program that provides them with hands-on legal experience with a public benefit or government agency. Many students participate in this program every semester, including the summer semester, and receive valuable legal training that gives them the experience they need to secure public or private legal employment. The vast majority of internships take place in the field of public interest. The program includes both fieldwork and teaching elements. Our work on immigration detention ensures that detained immigrants are guaranteed their fundamental due process rights. Jennings v. Rodriguez questions the administration`s policy of detaining immigrants for long periods without granting them a hearing, and is currently on trial by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In Hernandez v. Lynch, we want to demand that the government consider immigrants` ability to pay bail and non-monetary alternatives when determining conditions of release. We also regularly monitor conditions in immigration detention centers, provide individual legal assistance where possible, and advocate for immigration detention reform. About 400 students complete internships or internships each summer and about 175 in the fall and spring semesters. Internships are paid through Brooklyn Law School`s Fellowship or Grant Program, and funding is guaranteed to all students who wish to complete internships in the public service. Internships with recognized not-for-profit organizations and government agencies offer clinical loans. About 100 to 120 students choose internships, for which they are credited in the summer, and up to 200 in the fall and spring semesters. Interviews take place within one week immediately of the application deadline and the internship announcement is made no later than 10 days after the application deadline.
Quinnipiac`s outpatient programs, which use Connecticut`s liberal rules for student practice, such as the law school`s inpatient clinics, provide an important bridge between theory and practice for high school students. Under the supervision of experienced lawyers, judges, and mediators in a network of over three hundred articling students attending offices and courthouses across the state, New York, and neighboring New England states, QUSL aliens apply the lessons they`ve learned in the classroom to real-world legal problems and begin to understand how legal doctrine works in the real world. Through their work with their field supervisors and faculty supervisors who organize their internships and teach the seminar components of clerkship courses, students also develop the types of mentoring relationships that are essential to their professional development during and after law school. Above all, they develop and refine the legal skills and professional values necessary to represent clients competently and ethically. California Western School of Law offers third-year students the opportunity to participate in part-time or full-time articling to earn academic credit in any supervised and eligible public interest anywhere in the world. Students in the second and third years of the clerkship program are placed in public interest organizations such as the ACLU of Georgia, Atlanta Legal Aid, Georgia Legal Services Program, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, and the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta.