Externship Program Information for Students

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.

JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM – SPRING 2021 SEMESTER

Judicial Externship Program (JEP) is a 4-credit hour Pass/Low Pass/Fail program open to students who have completed at least their first full year of law school and want to do legal research and writing for a federal appellate, district or magistrate judge or designated Illinois appellate or circuit court judges. 

For additional information about JEP, you may also refer to the Externship Webage. 

Application Process

While the deadline for JEP applications has passed, you can still participate if you secure your own externship with a judge:

Spring 2021 Judicial Externship Application - secured your own

Completed applications should be submitted to Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu).

(To open the file so you can fill in the fields,open the above link and select "open with a different browser" and choose Adobe Acrobat).

Please note before applying that you must be able to commit 16 hours/week during the semester.

If you have any questions about the Program or the application itself, please contact Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu).

ACCESS2PRACTICE, SPRING 2021
LEGAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM

What is LEP?

Access2Practice (A2P) Legal Externship is a 4-credit-hour Pass/Fail program which enables Kent 2Ls and 3Ls to gain supervision/mentoring in a wide variety of legal areas – both civil and criminal.  LEP externships are offered in the Fall and Spring semesters and in the Summer session and consist of two separate components: fieldwork and class.  Externs must work 16 hours a week during the Fall/Spring semesters for a minimum total of 224 hours.  In addition, externs attend a series of classes that meet on designated Wednesdays from 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. Classes focus on different legal areas and the often complex realities at the core of law practice.

For additional information about LEP, you may also refer to the Externship Webage. 

How to Apply:

The Information and Application packets for the Spring 2021 LEP is available below:

Spring 2021 Legal Externship Application

All applications to participate in the program must be received by Monday, January 4, 2020, in order to allow sufficient time for final school approval and registration.

(To open the file so you can fill in the fields,open the above link and select "open with a different browser" and choose Adobe Acrobat).

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

 

If you have any questions about the Legal or Judicial Externships, please contact Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu). 

 

 

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