Outside Placement
Students may also develop the skills needed by litigating attorneys as well as actual in-court experience (when admitted to practice as students in the third year) in D.C.’s many nonprofit, governmental, and judicial institutions. Recent placements have been made with the U.S. Department of Justice; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Litigation; U.S. Department of Education, Office of Hearing and Appeals; National Whistleblower Center; Tahirih Justice Center; World Organization for Human Rights USA; D.C. Prisoners’ Project of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights; American Civil Liberties Union; Women Empowered Against Violence, Inc.; Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia; Ayuda; United Mine Workers of America; Break the Cycle; Public Citizen; International Labor Rights Fund; Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office; National Juvenile Defender Center; and numerous local city, county, and state public defender’s offices.
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