Experience

Experience courses allow students to work directly with clients but under the direction and guidance of experienced clinical professors or practitioner supervisors. Litigation students would usually spend a summer or semester working as an extern in a litigation-related position and/or enroll in a clinic during their third year.

• Criminal Practice Clinic
• First Amendment Clinic
• Immigration Practice Clinic
• Intellectual Property and the Arts Clinic
• Youth Opportunity Law Clinic
• Summer or semester litigation-focused externship

Branstetter Summer Fellows

The Branstetter Summer Fellows program is an initiative designed to enable law students who are interested in litigation and dispute resolution to work in unpaid summer internships with a non-profit or government organization where they will gain meaningful litigation experience. The Branstetter Program selects ten Branstetter Summer Fellows who receive a whole summer stipend or partial summer stipend for the internship.

2020 Fellows and Where They Served

Aaron Bernard ’22 – United States Department of Justice, Office of Legal Policy
Brooke Bowerman '22 – U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio
Kyle Brinker '22 – Judge Alfred Bennett, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Brandon Evans '22 – Senior Judge James C. Mahan, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
Andrew (AJ) Johnson '22 – Office of the Attorney General for the State of Virginia, Environmental Section
Hannah Lackey '21 – Office of the Attorney General for the State of Tennessee
Kumrashi Mishra '22 – Judge Dana Makoto Sabraw, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Nicholas Pendergast '22 (not pictured) – Office of the Attorney General for the State of Rhode Island
Christopher Warren '22 – Judge Janet Bond Arterton, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
Kevin Witenoff '21 – Office of the District Attorney for the City of Philadelphia

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