Examples of Externship Sites

With over 1,700 externships sites that already have an established relationship with Cooley and the opportunity to propose a new placement at a comparable site, students at Cooley Law School have an expansive list of potential externships to choose from. Here are some examples of externship placements where Cooley students are already gaining "hands on" experience.

To apply for an externship placement, students must submit an application, a copy of a cover letter for each site they are applying to, and one copy of a resume to the Clinical Coordinator. For a more comprehensive list of placement sites where Cooley students have worked in the past, current students may access the Externship Placement Sites Search on the Cooley Portal.

Michigan Firm and Corporation Externships

• UAW GM Legal Services, Lansing and Flint, Michigan
• Law, Weathers & Richardson, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Hubbard Fox Thomas White and Bengtson, PC, Lansing, Michigan
• Kitch Drutchas Wagner DeNardis & Vallitutti, Detroit, Michigan
• Price Heneveld Cooper DeWitt & Litton, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Parmenter O'Toole, Muskegon, Michigan
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Center, Lansing, Michigan
• Phifer, Phillips & White, PC, Detroit, Michigan

Judicial Externships

• Michigan Court of Appeals, Lansing, Michigan
• Michigan Supreme Court, Lansing, Detroit, and Traverse City, Michigan
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, Lansing, Michigan
• U.S. District Courts, various cities and states
• Supreme Court of the Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan, Mariana
• U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, Greenville, South Carolina
• United States Court of Federal Claims, Washington, DC
• U.S. Immigration Courts
• Many state and county courts across the United States

Firm and Corporation Externships Outside of Michigan

• Ernst & Young, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Mayor Day Caldwell & Keaton LLP, Houston, Texas
• Hinshaw & Culbertson, Tampa, Florida
• Cindrich & Associates, Carnegie, Pennsylvania
• Albo & Oblon LLP, Arlington, Virginia
• Crabbe Brown & James LLP, Columbus, Ohio
• Epstein Lipsey & Clifford PC, Hanover, Massachusetts
• Black Entertainment Television Inc., Washington, DC, and New York, New York
• Carey Filter White & Boland, Chicago, Illinois
• Beitchman & Hudson, Atlanta, Georgia
• Powers & French, Freeport, Maine
• Gersten Savage Kaplowitz Wolf & Marcus LLP, New York, New York
• Awad & Awad LLP, Los Angeles, California
• Turnbull, Mix & Farmer, Townson, Maryland
• Dell Financial Services, Round Rock, Texas

Governmental Agencies

• Patent and Trademark Office, Arlington, Virginia
• Securities and Exchange Commission, various cities and states
• Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan
• California Department of Justice, Los Angeles, California
• Department of the Air Force, Hulbert Field, Florida
• Hawaii Department of the Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii
• State of New York Office of the Attorney General, Syracuse, New York
• ABA Central and Eastern Europe Law Initiative, Washington, DC
• U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC
• Internal Revenue Service, Indianapolis, Indiana
• United States Sentencing Commission, Washington, DC
• Michigan Department of Management and Budget, Lansing, Michigan
• Solicitor General for the Department of Justice, Washington, DC
• Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Lansing, Michigan
• Michigan Tax Tribunal, Lansing, Michigan

Public Service

• Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York
• National Labor Relations Board, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Legal Services of South Central Michigan, Lansing, Michigan
• Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, Tucson, Arizona
• Legal Aid Society of Westchester County, White Plains, New York
• Volunteer Lawyer's Project, Buffalo, New York
• Legal Services of Southern Piedmont, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Legal Services of Northern Virginia, Falls Church, Virginia
• International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit, Immigration Legal Services, Detroit, Michigan
• Las Americanas Immigrant Advocacy, El Paso, Texas

Criminal Defense

• Washtenaw County Public Defender, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Federal Public Defender's Office for the Western District of Michigan, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• State Appellate Defender's Office, Lansing and Detroit, Michigan
• Maricopa County Office of the Public Defender, Phoenix, Arizona
• Federal Public Defender District of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
• Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Public Defender, Fairfax, Virginia
• Federal Public Defender's Office, Washington, DC
• Legal Aid Society of New York, New York, New York
• Cook County Public Defender, Chicago, Illinois
• Federal Public Defender, Southern District of Texas, Houston, Texas

Prosecutor

• Most Michigan County Prosecutors' Offices
• Ministry of the Attorney General, Crown Attorney's Office, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Florida State's Attorney's Office, Tampa, Florida
• U.S. Attorney's Offices, various cities and states
• Suffolk County District Attorney, Boston, Massachusetts
• District Attorney's Office, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Office of Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney, Leesburg, Virginia
• Kentucky Commonwealth's Attorney, Louisville, Kentucky
• Chippewa Indian Tribal Prosecutor, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
• Connecticut State Attorney's Office, New Britain, Connecticut
• Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Chicago, Illinois