Externship Opportunities
All students are responsible for finding their own placements. The Office of Graduate Programs has collected a list (see Pre-Approved Externship Opportunities) of organizations where students have secured externships in past semesters. These employers have not agreed that they will necessarily take an LL.M. extern, but these are placements that we have concluded will meet the educational objectives of the program. Students may also secure a placement that is not pre-approved (known as a “student initiated placement” or “SIP”). Direct supervisors must be lawyers. ALL SIPs must be approved by the Office of Graduate Programs in order to receive credit.
The work must be legal in nature and performed under the direct supervision of a lawyer.
NOTE:
- If you are considering a placement at a law firm or other for-profit organization, your time and work cannot be billed to a client.
- Students CANNOT receive any credit for an externship with an employer for whom the student will be working during the fall semester.
Prior participants included the following organizations:
- AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
- Alston & Bird
- American Dental Association
- Baker & Hostetler
- Caplin & Drysdale
- CFTC
- Crowell & Moring
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- DC Office of Tax and Revenue
- Ernst & Young
- Federal Trade Commission
- Holland & Knight
- Human Rights Watch
- Inter-American Developmental Bank
- Internal Revenue Service
- International Finance Corporation
- International Monetary Fund
- KPMG
- Loeb and Loeb
- National Juvenile Justice Network
- National Public Radio
- New Zealand Embassy
- Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
- Paul Hastings
- People's Global Access to Medicine
- Price Waterhouse Coopers
- Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
- Tax Foundation
- U.S. Department of Labor
- U.S. Export-Import Bank
- U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- U.S. Tax Court
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- World Bank
