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The Columbus School of Law offers one of the best legal externship programs in the United States! Our externship faculty have hosted national conferences on externship teaching and have authored the only available textbook for use in law school externship seminars.  The text is called Learning from Practice:  A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs. The second edition of the book was published in the fall of 2007.

Through the CUA Legal Externship Program, each year over 200 students earn course credits by working at non-profit organizations, government agencies, in congressional offices, for judges, law firms, trade associations and corporations. Student externs have the opportunity to assist with representation of clients, with legislative and other policy development, and with a wide range of other lawyering activities. Students gain valuable exposure to lawyers and legal institutions. Many students use externships to explore possible career paths and to clarify their professional goals. Many students develop relationships with mentors and colleagues that continue long past the end of the externship. Through the externship program's seminars and tutorials, students have the opportunity to examine legal and professional issues that arise in their fieldwork and to learn about the field experience of other students at other placements.

 

 

Nov. 7, 2007 — More than 40 representatives from government agencies and other organizations set up information tables in the Columbus School of Law atrium for the 3rd inter-school D.C. area Externship Fair. Co-sponsored with George Washington University Law School and Howard University School of Law, the fair provides an informal opportunity for law students to learn about a wide range of governmental and non-profit organizations for placement in externships and summer jobs. Students were encouraged to leave resumes with potential employers.

 


CUA Legal Externships – Spring 2009

Here is a list of the placements where CUA law students are doing legal externships for academic credit this semester.  This provides just a sample of the rich educational opportunities available through the CUA legal externship program.  

Judicial Externships (eighteen students)

US District Court for the District of Columbia

  •     The Honorable Richard J. Leon
  •     The Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina

 US Court of Federal Claims

  •     The Honorable Loren Smith

 US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

 Superior Court of the District of Columbia

  •    The Honorable Jennifer Anderson
  •    The Honorable Russell Canan
  •    The Honorable Stephanie Duncan-Peters
  •    The Honorable Wendell P. Gardner Jr.(2)
  •    The Honorable Judith N. Macaluso
  •    The Honorable Thomas J. Motley
  •    The Honorable John M. Mott
  •    The Honorable Michael L. Rankin
  •    The Honorable Odessa F. Vincent
  •    The Honorable Joan Zeldon
  •    Judicial Law Clerk to Magistrate Judges

 Maryland Court of Special Appeals, The Honorable James Kenney III

 Public defenders (three students)

Alexandria Public Defender (2)

Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia

State attorneys (three students)

Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office (2)

Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Alexandria

Federal government (twenty-three students)

US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information  Administration

US Commodity Futures Exchange Commission, Division of Enforcement (2)

US Federal Communications Commission

  •   Commissioner McDowell's Office (2)
  •   Wireless Telecommunications Bureau 

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority 

US Department of Health & Human Services, Departmental Appeals Board 

US Department of Homeland Security, US Citizenship and Immigration Services 

US Agency for International Development, Office of General Counsel 

US International Trade Commission, Office of General Counsel 

US Department of Justice

  •   Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch
  •   Criminal Division, Fraud Section (2)
  •   Criminal Division, Domestic Security Section (2)
  •   Criminal Division, Obscenity Prosecution Task Force
  •   Executive office for U.S. Trustees, Office of General Counsel
  •   Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Training and Assistance
  •   Office of International Affairs (2)

United States Attorney for DC, Special Proceedings Division

National Science Foundation, Office of Inspector General

Legislative externships (three students)

US Senate Committee on the Judiciary

  •   Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security

US House of Representatives

  •   Committee on Financial Services

Maryland State Senate

  •   Senator David Harrington

Law firms, corporations and non-profit organizations (fifteen students)

Bureau of National Affairs, Corporate Practice Series

The Carmen Group, International Team

Comcast Corporation

DC Coalition against Domestic Violence

McGuire Woods, LLP

National Geographic Channel, Business and Legal Affairs Department

Octagon (sports agency) Legal Department

Osborne Law Offices, PC

Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur

Spiegel and McDiarmid, LLP

Sports Management Group Worldwide

Wendy H. Schwartz and Associates, PLLC

Telecommunications Industry Association

United Mine Workers of America, International Office

Windstream Communications

  •   Office of Federal Governmental Affairs

 

 



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