Career Services
Potential Placements
Students from Lewis & Clark Law School have completed Externships in a vast array of settings. Below is a list of possible Externship placement opportunities. This is not a complete list and students should feel free to discuss other externship options with the Assistant Dean.
For a complete list of past Externships, see the Externship Notebook in the Career Services Office.
Advocates for the West (Boise, ID)
American Bar Association, Division for Public Services
Appalachian Citizens Law Center, Inc. (Prestonberg, KY)
Asia American legal Defense and Education Fund
Batelle Corporation (Richland, WA)
California Department of Justice
Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services Program
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, NY)
Center for Human Rights & Environment (Cordoba, Argentina)
Center for International Environmental Law (Washington DC)
Chicago, City of (Department of Law)
CITES* (Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland & Other Locations) (*Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office
Cleveland, City of (Department of Law)
Colorado Attorney General (Department of Law)
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
Community Legal Services, Inc.
Corporation for National and Community Service
District of Columbia, Office of Police Complaints
Earthjustice (Various locations including Denver, CO; Seattle, WA; Washington, DC; Bozeman, MT; New Orleans, LA; Juneau, AK)
Earthjustice, International Program
Earth Rights International (Washington, DC)
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (Eugene, OR)
Environmental Integrity Project (Washington, DC)
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of General Counsel
Federal Communications Commission Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau
Florida Office of the Attorney General
Hawaii Supreme Court (Honolulu, HI)
Human Rights Campaign, McClearly Law Fellows Program
Humane Society of the United States (Washington, DC)
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Illinois Attorney General’s Program
Institute for Justice and Democracy (Haiti)
Institute of Museum and Library Services
International Institute for Justice and Development
International Labor Rights Fund (Washington, DC)
Juvenile Rights Project (Portland, OR)
Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Office (WA)
Law Students in Action Project (Tanzania, Africa)
Lawyers Environmental Action Team (Tanzania)
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
Legislative Counsel (Salem, OR)
Los Angeles City Attorney Animal Protection Unit
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Wilsonville, OR)
Metropolitan Public Defender (Portland, OR)
Metro Regional Services (Portland, OR)
Meyer, Glitzenstein & Crystal (Washington, DC)
Missouri Coalition for the Environment (Summer externships)
Multnomah County Attorney’s Office (Portland, OR)
Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office (Portland, OR)
Municipality of Anchorage, Department of Law (Anchorage, AK)
National Labor Relations Board (Washington, DC & Field Offices)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Long Beach, CA)
Native American Rights Fund (Anchorage, AK)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nature Conservancy (Boulder, CO)
New Jersey Victims of Crime Compensation Board
Nike Corporation Corporate Counsel Office (Beaverton, OR)
Northwest Constitutional Rights Center (Portland, OR)
Northwest Federation of Community Organizations
Northwest Women’s Law Center (Seattle, WA)
Ocean Conservancy (Washington, DC)
Oceana, Inc. (Washington, DC)
Oregon Court of Appeals (Salem, OR)
Oregon Dept. Human Resources, Seniors & People with Disabilities (Salem, OR)
Oregon Department of Justice (Salem, OR)
Oregon House of Representatives
Oregon Representative Brad Avakian (Salem, OR)
Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals
Oregon Law Center
Oregon League of Conservation Voters
Oregon Tax Court (Honorable Henry Breithaupt)
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Partnership for Public Services (Year Round Externships)
Pennsylvania’s Office of the Attorney General
Political Asylum Project of Austin
Port of Portland Corporate Counsel Office
Public Advocates, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Public Defender for the District of Columbia
Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender
Sierra Club Environmental Law Program
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (Various locations including San Francisco, CA; Bozeman, MT; Juneau, AK)
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC)(Juneau, AK)
Southern Environmental Law Center (Chapel Hill, NC)
Standard Insurance Corporate Counsel Office (Portland, OR)
Transportation Security Administration
Trustees for Alaska (Anchorage, AK)
United Nations, International Criminal Law Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
US Agency for International Development
US Arbitration and Mediation (Portland, OR)
US Attorney’s Office, Indian Affairs Section of ENRD (Denver, CO)
US Attorney General’s Office (Various locations including Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA, Denver, CO, Tucson, AZ, Boise, ID)
US Attorney’s Office, District of Idaho
US Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
US Congressman Raul M. Grijalva (Washington, DC)
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Office of Staff Attorneys (San Francisco, CA)
US Department of Commerce -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Office of the General Counsel, Executive Office
US Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (Seattle, WA)
US Department of Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 (Chicago, IL)
US Department of Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 (Seattle, WA)
US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Regional Counsel
US Department of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
US Department of Health & Human Services Departmental Appeals Board - ADR Division
US Department of Homeland Security
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
US Department of Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel
US Department of Justice (Portland, OR; San Francsico, CA)
US Department of Justice, Immigration Court
US Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security
US Department of Transportation
US Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Regional Counsel (Portland, OR)
US District Court Judge Lynn Adelman
US District Court (Portland OR): Judge Don Ashmanskas, Judge Anna J. Brown, Judge Ancer Haggerty, Magistrate Dennis Hubel, Judge Robert E. Jones, Judge Garr King, Judge Malcolm Marsh, Judge Michael W. Mosman, Judge Owen M. Panner (Medford OR), Judge James Redden
US District Court Judge Harvey Bartle
US District Court Judge T. Peter Craven
US District Court Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth L. Perris, US Bankruptcy Court (Portland, OR)
US District Court Senior Judge Edward C. Reed, Jr. (Nevada)
US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Dairmuid O’Scannlain (Portland, OR)
US District Court Judge Edward F. Shea. US District Court of Eastern District of WA
US District Judge Amy St. Eve, US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
US District Court Judge James Singleton,US District Court (Alaska)
US District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker (San Francisco, CA)
US District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White, Northern District of California
US District Court Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill, District of Idaho
US Supreme Court Justice Alex Bryner (Anchorage, AK)
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Seattle, WA & various locations)
US Federal Trade Commission (Washington, DC & various locations)
US Federal Trade Commission, Southeast Region
US Federal Trade Commission, Midwest Region
US Federal Trade Commission, Northwest Region
US Patent & Trademark Office, Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences (Alexandria, VA)
US Securities Exchange Commission
US Senator Max Baucus (D. Mont.) (Washington DC)
US Senator Patrick Leahy (Washington DC)
US Small Business Administration (Portland, OR)
US Transportation Security Administration, Office of Civil Rights
Victims of Crime Compensation Board (Newark, NJ)
Washington County Counsel (Hillsboro, OR)
Washington County District Attorney’s Office (Hillsboro, OR)
Washington Environmental Council
Washington State Attorney General’s Office (Olympia, WA)
Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Legal Services
Environmental Externships information from the Lewis and Clark Law School's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Department
Contact Us
The Career Services Office is located in the Gantenbein Building.
email lscs@lclark.edu
voice (503) 768-6608
Associate Dean
Libby Davis
Address
Lewis & Clark Law School
10015 S.W. Terwilliger Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97219
