Legal Extern Program
The College of Law recognizes that students develop essential skills by working under the supervision of practicing attorneys and active judges and offers academic credit to students who participate in the Legal Extern Program, administered by the CPD. The Extern Programs allow students to integrate classroom theory with actual legal practice and to begin their development as practicing professionals. Second and third year students may elect to participate in the Legal Extern Program, through which they work under the supervision of practicing attorneys in a variety of law or legally-related offices and organizations. Externship opportunities are available in both criminal and civil areas, ranging from the offices of the United States Attorney and federal and county Public Defenders, to Legal Aid, the National Labor Relations Board, and organizations advocating for the interests of children, the elderly and battered women.
The following is a non-exclusive list of externships:
- Butler County Prosecutor's Office
- Cincinnati (city of) Prosecutor's Office
- Clermont County Prosecutor's Office
- Clermont County Public Defender
- Hamilton (city of) Prosecutor's Office
- Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office: Juvenile Division
- Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office: Municipal Division
- Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office: Appellate Division
- Hamilton County Public Defender's Office
- Federal Public Defender: Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. Department of the Treasury: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
- Warren County Prosecutor's Office
- Cincinnati (city of): Office of Environmental Management
- Department of Energy, U.S.
- City of Cincinnati Developmental and Environmental Division
- Ohio (state of): Environmental Protection Agency- Columbus Office
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Procter & Gamble Company (150 hours required)
- University of Cincinnati: General Counsel/Graduate Studies and Research
- National Employee Rights Institute
- National Labor Relations Board
- Ohio Civil Rights Commission (Cincinnati Office)
- University of Cincinnati: Office of Equal Opportunity
- Cincinnati Public Schools
- University of Cincinnati: General Counsel
- Norwood (city of): Law Director
- Cincinnati (city of): City Council
- American Civil Liberties Union (Cincinnati Chapter)
- Children's Defense Fund
- Cincinnati Bar Association
- Cinergy
- Internal Revenue Service (Chief Counsel's Office)
- CMOR
- Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati
- Legal Aid Society of Northern Kentucky
- NAACP-(Fairfield, Hamilton, West Chester Office)- David S. Washington Jr., Esq.
- Central Juvenile Defender Center (A Project of the Children's Law Center, Inc.) Darlene Kamine
- Ohio State Attorney General's Office (Cincinnati Office)
- Prisoner's Rights Advocacy Center
- ProKids
- Children's Law Center
- ProSeniors
- International Family Resource Center
- Women Helping Women, Inc.
- Women's Prison Project
- EEOC
- UC Ombuds Office
- Private Complaint Mediation Service
- Court of Common Pleas Mediation Office
- Wright Patterson Air Force Base Resolution- ADR Program
- Mediation Office of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals