What externships are currently offered?
Students can apply for admission in the Judicial Externship Program, the Department of Justice/Attorney General Externship Program, an Individual Externship, or one of the tax externships. Students in the Judicial Externship Program serve as law clerk externs in the chambers of judges in either the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (New Orleans or Lafayette), the Louisiana Supreme Court (New Orleans), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans), the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (Baton Rouge) or the Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeal for the First Circuit (Baton Rouge). Students’ experiences vary depending upon the court to which they are assigned, but all placements provide substantive experience for students working as judicial law clerks. The experience includes legal research and drafting memos, writ reports, bench briefs as well as record review and preparing or reviewing draft opinions.
