Spring 2018 Externship Course – Additional Enrollment Opportunity – Field Placements Available!

To 2L and 3L Students:

Enrollment in the Law School’s Externship Course is an incredible way to earn valuable legal experience and academic credit while working under the supervision of judges and practicing attorneys. If you are not one of the students already enrolled in the Spring 2018 Externship Course, I write to share that there remain several field placements available through the Course.  Among the available Externship field placements are following:

U.S. District Court (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

U.S. Bankruptcy Court (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

Shelby County Circuit Court (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

Memphis Area Legal Services – Consumer Unit (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

Memphis City Attorney’s Office – Litigation Unit (three credits; 12 weekly placement hours)

Memphis City Attorney’s Office – Transactional Unit (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

Mid-South Immigration Advocates (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

University of Memphis Office of University Counsel (three credits; 12 weekly placement hours)

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – Hearings Division (three credits; 12 weekly placement hours)

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (three credits; 12 weekly placement hours)

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (three credits; 12 weekly placement hours)

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation (Employment/Labor Law) (three credits; 12 weekly placement hours)

Ducks Unlimited (three credits; 12 weekly placement hours)

Orion Federal Credit Union (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

State of Tennessee Office of the Attorney General (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

Shelby County Airport Authority (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

Robert Wood Johnson NPI/Urban Law Externship (two credits; 8 weekly placement hours)

If you wish to apply for enrollment in any of the above-identified field placements through the Spring 2018 Externship Course, please contact Professor Danny Schaffzin immediately.

You can learn more about the Law School’s Externship Course and all of the Course’s approved field placements on the Program’s web page (http://www.memphis.edu/law/programs/externships.php). In particular, please see the links to the “Policies and Guidelines” and “Field Placement Descriptions” sections.

As always, please do not hesitate to touch base with Professor Schaffzin by phone (901-678-5056) or e-mail (dschffzn@memphis.edu) with any questions about the Spring 2018 Externship Course.

Thank you for your interest!