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.

More program information:

>> Fall 2017 Applications

Fall 2017 Access2Practice Legal Externship Application

Fall 2017 Judicial Externship - Short Application: If you have secured an externship with a judge who is not a participating member in the Chicago-Kent Judicial Externship Program and wish to explore the possibility of converting that opportunity into a for-credit externship, please contact Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu). In addition, you will need to fill out the this application.

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

Recent Legal Externship Placements

U.S. Attorney's Offices, Northern District of Illinois & Middle District of Florida	U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Arlington, Virginia	Council on American-Islamic Relations
State's Attorney's Offices--Cook, DuPage, Lake & Kane counties	U.S. Navy, Trial Service Office East	AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
Public Defender's Offices--Cook, DuPage, Lake & Kane counties	Office of the Federal Public Defender, Washington, D.C.	Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Washington, D.C.
Internal Revenue Service	Illinois Attorney General's Office	Alaska Legal Services Corporation
National Labor Relations Board	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
Federal Trade Commission	Office of the Cook County Public Guardian	Lawyers for the Creative Arts
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center	Modern Asia Environmental Holdings Inc., Bangkok
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office	Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law	Zhonglun W&D Law Firm, Beijing
U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration Court	City of Chicago, Law Department

Contact Info

Director of the Legal Externship Program

Vivien Gross
Clinical Professor of Law
(312) 906-5073
vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu
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