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 organization.
More program information
- Legal Externship Program Description
- Judicial Externship Program Description
- Types of Externships
- Applying for a Legal Externship
- Legal Externship Listings - Symplicity
- Frequently Asked Questions about Legal Externships
- Contact Information
Applications
JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Fall Application Process
The due date for Fall 2020 Judicial Externship applications has passed, but if you have secured your own Judicial Externship, below is the application that you will submit on or before Monday August 17, 2020:
Fall 2020 Judicial Externship Application - If you have secured your own
(To open the file so you can fill in the fields, open the above link and select "open with a different viewer" and choose Adobe Acrobat)
If you have any questions about the Program or the application itself, please contact Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu).
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LEGAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Fall Application Process:
The Information and Application packets for the Fall 2020 LEP are available below. Please consult with Symplicity for listings of Legal Externship placement opportunities.
Applications must be submitted to and approved by Professor Gross by Friday, August 14, 2020.
Fall 2020 Legal Externship Application
(To open the file so you can fill in the fields, open the above link and select "open with a different viewer" and choose Adobe Acrobat)
If you have any questions about the Legal or Judicial Externships, please contact Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu).
Recent Legal Externship Placements
| American Dental Association | Beerman Swerdlove | Blair Caravelli Irmen Law |
| Center for Disability and Elder Law | Center for Law & Social Justice | Chicago Office Illinois Human Rights Commission |
| Cook County Public Defender Office | Domestic Violence Legal Clinic | Equip for Equality, Inc. |
| Federal Defender's Office | FINRA | Hinshaw Culbertson |
| Illinois Attorney General | Illinois Pollution Control Board | Int'l Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) in New York |
| Internal Revenue Services | Lane & Lane, LLC | Lawyers for the Creative Arts |
| Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago | Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC |
| Merieux Nutrisciences Corporation | Mintel Group Ltd. | Office of the Cook County Public Guardian |
| Rosenbaum IP | Saper Law | Seyfarth Shaw |
| State's Attorney's Offices--Cook, DuPage, Lake & Will counties | U.S. Attorney's Offices, Northern District of Illinois | U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
| ULTA Beauty | Walgreen Co. | Brightstar Corporation |