Externship Program

About the Program

The Law School’s Lexy and Samuel S. Lionel ‘40, ‘10HON Externship Program gives students an unrivaled opportunity to explore their career interests while earning academic credit. Under the guidance and mentorship of their supervising Mentor-Attorney, students learn the law hands on as they work on real legal matters in a range of practice settings, including:

Private law firms
In-house legal departments
Public interest organizations
Government agencies
Judicial chambers

In addition to working in the field, students take a weekly seminar class at St. John’s Law, where they reflect on their externship experience, deepen their practical knowledge, and build their lawyering and broader professional skills.

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Our student externs thrive in a wide range of professional settings, securing positions that reflect their talent and the strength of our externship program. Here’s just a sampling of recent externship placements:

Private (Law Firm and In-House)

Argo Group
Clifford Chance
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Davidoff Hutcher and Citron
Deutsche Bank
Estee Lauder
GOAT USA
Ladder Capital Finance LLP
Nuvance Health
New York Red Bulls
Roc Nation
Ruskin Moscou Faltischek
Shake Shack
Shearman & Sterling
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
Tapestry
Warshaw Burstein
Wasserman Media
Wrobel Markham

Government

District Attorney’s Offices (Brooklyn, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, and Westchester Counties)
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Trade Commission
FINRA
National Labor Relations Board
Nassau County Attorney's Office
New York State Attorney General’s Office
New York State Division of Human Rights
SIFMA
United States Attorney’s Office (Eastern District of New York)
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Joint SDG Fund
United States Department of Justice
United States Securities Exchange Commission

Judicial

Nassau County Courts ADR Program
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division (Second Department)
New York State Supreme Court (Bronx, Nassau, New York, Queens, and Suffolk Counties)
United States Bankruptcy Court (Southern District and Eastern District of New York)
United States Court of Appeals (Second Circuit)
United States Court of International Trade
United States District Court (Southern District and Eastern District of New York)

Public Interest

ACLU
Better Business Bureau
Brooklyn Defender Services
Family Legal Care
Girl Scouts of the USA
Legal Aid Society
Long Island Advocacy Center
New York County Lawyer’s Association
New York Legal Assistance Group
Queens Legal Services

There are hundreds of pre-approved externship placements to choose from, and the Externship Program director welcomes new externship partnerships proposed by students and employers.

To learn more about the Externship Program at St. John’s Law, please contact the program’s director, Thomas Blennau ’02, at [email protected] or (718) 990-5929.