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 need to come to us for approval and we will try to ensure the placement is one that can be fostered through the externship. All proposed Field Placement Offices must be audited by The Office of Law Skills and Experiential Learning.
- Students are encouraged to apply early in the semester.
- 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 Court in Louisiana (both Eastern and Western District)
- United States Department of Labor
State
- Louisiana Supreme Court
- Louisiana Supreme Court - Civil Staff
- Louisiana Supreme Court - The Judicial Administrator's Office
- Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeal
- Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeal - Central Staff
- Judicial District Court in Louisiana
- Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans
- Orleans Parish Juvenile Court
- Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court
- Louisiana Workforce Commission
Governmental Agencies
Federal
- United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- United States Attorney's Office (Washington, DC and the Eastern District)
- Federal Public Defender's Office
- Internal Revenue Service
- United States Coast Guard
- United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Office
- National Labor Relations Board
- United States Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
State
- Jefferson Parish - District Attorney's Office
- Jefferson Parish - Public Defenders' Office
- Orleans Parish - Orleans Public Defenders
- St. Tammany Parish - Public Defenders Office
- Judicial Ethics Commission
- City of New Orleans - City Attorney's Office
- Independent Police Monitor's Office (IPM)
- Department of Natural Resources
- Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board
Public Interest/Non-Profit
- Louisiana Appleseed
- Advocacy Center
- The Louisiana Civil Justice Center
- The Capital Appeals Project
- Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana
- Capital Defense Project
- Recirculating Farms Coalition
- Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy
- Aids Law
- Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
- New Orleans BioInnovation Center
- El Pueblo - Immigration Legal Services
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Women with a Vision