This externship experience is comprised of an externship placement with a mentor attorney at a law office and a co-requisite seminar.
Law, Public Policy, and Social Change
This course covers legal history and how lawyers are involved in social change.
Legal Research: Corporate/Business Law
This course helps students refine research skills, learn shortcuts, and develop cost-effective and efficient research strategies for corporate or business law related projects.
Legal Research: Family Law
This course helps students refine research skills, learn shortcuts, and develop cost-effective and efficient research strategies for family law related projects.
Legal Research: Intellectual Property
This course helps students refine research skills, learn shortcuts, and develop cost-effective and efficient research strategies for intellectual property law related projects.
Legal Research: Labor and Employment Law
This course helps students refine research skills, learn shortcuts, and develop cost-effective research strategies for employment and labor law-related projects.
Legal Research: Practical Skills
This course focuses on methods for researching case law, constitutional law, statutes, and regulations in federal and state jurisdictions.
Legal Research: Skills for the Digital World
This course introduces students to advanced legal research techniques using both the latest computer technology and book resources.
Legaltech, Legal Operations, and the Future of Practice
This course combines substantive legal content related to legal technology (including electronic discovery) and its use in practice as well as simulations introducing students to the practical application of the technology.
Legislative Advocacy Clinic – New York Civil Liberties Union
This clinic challenges students to conceptualize, plan, and implement a campaign to pass social justice legislation in the New York City Council.