PROSECUTORIAL EXTERNSHIP
LAW 710B
4 credit hours (3 clinical, 1 academic)
One semester (Fall & Spring)
Professor Carol Barry

Students spend twelve hours per week working in a prosecutor's office under the  supervision of experienced attorneys.  Responsibilities may include drafting accusatory  instruments, conducting investigations, researching and writing responses to motions and  memoranda of law, drafting direct and cross-examination questions for hearings, or trials, and observing and/or participating in court proceedings and  complainant/witness interviews and preparing witnesses for trial.  

The weekly two-hour seminar provides background on legal, practical, and ethical issues in criminal prosecutions, and includes simulations and case presentations by students. Participating offices have included the District Attorneys offices of Westchester, New York, Bronx, Rockland, Queens, Ulster, Sullivan and Kings Counties, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York (White Plains and Manhattan offices), the Organized Crime Task Force, the Connecticut State's Attorney's Offices (Stamford and Norwalk), and the Bergen and Passaic County Prosecutors' Offices.

Criminal Procedure (Investigation), Evidence, and permission of the professor are required.  

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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW EXTERNSHIP
LAW 821
4 credit hours (3 clinical, 1 academic)
One semester (Spring)
Professor Gail Hintz

Students spend twelve hours a week prosecuting environmental law violations and otherwise representing the host agency/office in various environmental law enforcement agencies. The class has standing placements at each of the following: the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYC and New Paltz Offices); the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Westchester County District Attorney ( White Plain); the United States Environmental Protection Agency (NYC); and the Environmental Protection Bureau of the NYS Attorney General's Office (NYC).  There are sufficient number of placements to accommodate the entire class, however, some of the offices can only accept a limited number of students.  Additional placement locations in other government offices or public interest groups are possible but require early coordination with the professor.

Student work and the practice experience are further reviewed in a weekly seminar session with the faculty supervisor. The seminar also compares the approach to legal issues and environmental problems of government lawyers and "public interest" lawyers and systematically analyses  topics such as the authority of the courts, the scope of judicial review, the relationship between administrative agency records and litigation, available remedies, and state-federal relations, as they arise within the framework of the clinical experience.

Environmental Skills and Practice and permission of the professor are required.

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FAMILY COURT EXTERNSHIP
LAW 694
3 credit hours (1 clinical, 2 academic)
One semester (Fall & Spring)

Students spend seven hours per week working in either White Plains or Yonkers Family Court under the supervision of experienced attorneys. Responsibilities include interviewing battered women; drafting petitions for orders of protection, support, and custody. Students operate under a student practice order to represent the victim at the ex parte hearing on the petition for the order of protection. Students will also have the opportunity to assist staff attorneys with uncontested divorces, child support cases and immigration matters.

The weekly two-hour seminar provides education concerning the dynamics of domestic violence as well as relevant Family Court practice simulations and training, and of course,  an opportunity to consult on the cases as they develop. This externship will have a working relationship with Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, the Mental Health Association, the Westchester Office for Women, my Sister's Place and Northern Westchester domestic violence shelters as well as various police departments throughout Westchester County.

Permission of the professor is required. Evidence is recommended but not required.

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LEGAL SERVICES/PUBLIC INTEREST/HEALTH LAW EXTERNSHIP
LAW 829/829B
6 credit hours (5 clinical, 1 academic)  SUMMER 2006
Professor Margaret Flint

Students in the Legal Services/Public Interest/Health Law Externship engage in supervised fieldwork with a provider of legal services to low-income and otherwise disadvantaged people, a public interest legal organization, the legal department of a not-for -profit health care provider, or a government agency.  As with all JJLS Externships, a weekly two-hour seminar and a substantial piece of written work are also required.

The course is appropriate for students who have secured a non-paid legal position with a suitable not for profit organization. (ABA rules prohibit the granting of credit for fieldwork for which compensation is provided.) In order to receive 6 credits for the course, you are required to work at your placement 35 hours per week for each of the 7weeks of the summer session.  Please be aware, however, the your placement may require you to work additional hours each week and /or work for additional weeks during the summer.  Students may arrange to take the course for fewer than 6 credit hours, with permission of the instructor.

Assistance will be provided to students who have not yet secured and appropriate summer position.  However, because even non-paying positions are highly sought after during the summer, students must actively participate in the search process. 

Students in this program have conducted administrative hearings and routine court appearances (answering calendar calls and the like), interviewed clients, investigated factual claims, and drafted affidavits, file memoranda, and briefs.  Time is also required for maintaining work logs and weekly journals, for preparing seminar presentations and simulations, and for occasional individual tutorials with the professor.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE EXTERNSHIP
LAW 900
4 credit hours (3 clinical credits and 1 academic)
One semester (Spring)
Professor Louise Martin-Valiquette

This course is focused on the practice of international trade and transnational business transactions.  Students work twelve hours per week in law firms or corporations specializing in international trade law on diverse aspects of the firm's practice under the supervision of their field supervisors.  Students also are required to participate in a two-hour academic seminar each week with their faculty supervisor; to keep work logs for the duration of the internships; and to complete at least one substantial piece of legal writing related to their fieldwork.  The classroom component includes discussions, in general terms and in full compliance with the confidentiality guidelines of the students' respective placements, of the challenges inherent in their work assignments, as well as a more intensive focus on the substantive law involved.  Special attention is given to agency and distribution agreements (inbound and outbound; civil and common law legal systems); licensing and franchising; choice of entity (under U.S. law, E.U.; and NAFTA) for companies wishing to set up an establishment abroad; basic elements of international taxation related to the entity form selected; NAFTA and the WTO; and legal aspects of political risk.  Both an inbound and outbound perspective is given in order to prepare students to represent foreign entities in the U.S. and to assist U.S. entities which want to do business abroad.

Permission of the professor is required.