Loyola students have externed at nearly a hundred placements over the past few years. Below are pre-approved field placement opportunities, where we have previously placed externs and have a working relationship with the field placement office. On occasion, students will seek an opportunity at an office not on the list. In those instances, students should contact Prof. Linares at halinare@loyno.edu to determine the proposed placement meets externship program criteria.

• Students are encouraged to apply early in the semester. 
• Individual placements may have earlier deadlines or be filled on a rolling basis prior to Loyola's internal deadlines. 
• Loyola does not guarantee a placement for all externship applicants.

Pre-Approved Field Placement Opportunities

Judicial 

Federal

• United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals 

• United States District Courts in Louisiana

• United States Department of Labor - Administrative Law Judge

State

• Louisiana Supreme Court

• Louisiana Supreme Court - Civil Staff

• Louisiana Supreme Court - The Judicial Administrator's Office

• Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal

• Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeal - Central Staff

• Judicial District Courts in Louisiana

• Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans

• Orleans Parish Juvenile Court 

• Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court

• Louisiana Workforce Commission - La. Dept. of Labor Administrative Law Judge

Criminal

Defense

• Federal Public Defender's Office

• Orleans Parish - Orleans Public Defenders

• Louisiana Center for Children's Rights (Orleans Parish Juvenile Defenders)

• Jefferson Parish (24th JDC) - Public Defender's Office

• St. Tammany Parish (22nd JDC) - Public Defender's Office

• Innocence Project New Orleans

• Louisiana Capital Assistance Center

• The Capital Appeals Project

Prosecution

• United States Attorney's Office (Eastern District of La.)

• United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Office

• Jefferson Parish - District Attorney's Office

Governmental 

Federal

• United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

• Internal Revenue Service

• United States Coast Guard

• National Labor Relations Board

• Asylum Office - Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

State and Local

• Louisiana Attorney General's Office

• New Orleans City Attorney's Office

• Judiciary Commission of Louisiana

• Louisiana Mental Health Advocacy Service (MHAS)

• Metropolitan Human Services District (MHSD) - General Counsel's Office

• Office of the Independent Police Monitor (IPM)

• Louisiana Department of Natural Resources

• Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board

Public Interest/Non-Profit

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• Louisiana Appleseed

• Advocacy Center of Louisiana 

• New Orleans BioInnovation Center

• Catholic Charities of New Orleans

• The Louisiana Civil Justice Center

• CrescentCare Legal Services

• Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center

• Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana

• The Pro Bono Project

• Recirculating Farms Coalition

• Southeast Louisiana Legal Services

• Southern Poverty Law Center

Other Externship Opportunities

• Self-created externship opportunties
• Converting Interships to Externships

Out-of-State

• Out-of-state externship placements