EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION • SKILL-BASED PRACTICE & PLACEMENTS
Externships The Thurgood Marshall Law Externship Program is rooted in the foundations of skill-
based law practice. Students embrace their professional identities and step into legal arenas working on assignments given to newly licensed attorneys. Some placements require students to have their “temporary bar license”, which gives these students the ability to sit as “first-chair litigators” and much more.
Areas of Concentration: • • • • • • •
Civil Externship Criminal Externship Judicial Externship Legislative Externship Juvenile Justice Real Estate and Property Preservation Child Welfare Litigation
Sample of Externship Placements Thurgood Marshall Law offers over 300 approved placements, and the list continues to grow! Recent placements include: • NASA • Walmart’s Corporate Office • Harris County Attorney’s Office • The Federal Trade Commission • The US. District Court for the Southern District of Texas • The Texas Supreme Court
During summer ’21, I had the pleasure to clerk for six weeks in Austin, Texas at Lloyd Gosselink Attorneys at Law, one of the first environmental law firms founded in Texas. As an aspiring environmental law attorney, I was privileged to experience the practice of environmental law closely under knowledgeable attorneys. Lloyd Gooselink prides itself on giving clerks a holistic experience. Not only did I learn about environmental law practice, but I acquired skills about law firm management and operations—critical competencies necessary for lawyering success. Had it not been for Thurgood Law enlightening me of this clerkship, I would have missed out on an amazing opportunity.
Markicia Horton, 3L President, Class of 2022
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