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For more information about Externships & Judicial Externships, please contact law-externship@buffalo.edu.

Course Listings by Area of Practice

Externships provide you with the opportunity to apply your doctrinal knowledge and skills in actual practice settings.  In order to make it easier for you to choose an Externship based on your interests and/or coursework concentration, we have grouped the Externships by area of law. Please note that many externships and/or agencies have multiple areas of law.

This listing can change as opportunities become available. Please contact law-externship@buffalo.edu if you have any questions.

  • UB – Collegiate Athletic Policy Formulation & Administration
  • Children’s Legal Center
  • Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo
  • Legal Aid Society of Rochester
  • Western New York Law Center – Small Business Legal Clinic
  • Center for Elder Law & Justice
    • Consumer Protection
    • Elder Abuse Prevention
    • Guardianship Services
    • Health Care Advocacy
    • Kinship Care Legal Services
    • Long Term Care Resident Advocacy
    • MedLaw Partnership of WNY
    • Surrogate’s Court Help Desk
  • Empire Justice Center
  • JustCause (Rochester)
    • Health Unit – Wills, Powers of Attorney, Advanced Directives
    • Family Unit – Custody, Visitation, Divorce
    • Tenant Defense Project (TDP)
    • Immigration
    • 7th Judicial District Help Center
  • Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo
    • Civil Unit
    • Coordinated Refugee Asylee Legal Services Project
  • Legal Aid Society of Rochester
    • Education Law Unit
    • Family Law Unit
    • Housing and Consumer Law Unit
  • Neighborhood Legal Services
    • Healthy Homes Externship
    • Public Benefits Unit Externship
  • NYS Attorney General Buffalo & Rochester Regional Office
  • Prisoners Legal Services of New York
  • Volunteer Lawyers Project
    • Attorney of the Morning at City Court - Landlord-Tenant issues
    • Family Court Help Desk (Erie County, Monday – Friday; Niagara County, Wednesday)
    • Working with Positive Families and Individuals – health related planning
  • U.S. Attorney’s Office - Buffalo & Rochester Offices
  • NYS Court of Appeals (Buffalo)
  • NYS Supreme Court (Buffalo/Erie Co., Lockport/Niagara Co., Mayville/Chautauqua Co., and Rochester/Monroe Co.)
  • NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 4th Department (Buffalo)
  • US District Court, WDNY (Buffalo and Rochester)
  • Entrepreneurial Law Center Externship
  • Center for Elder Law & Justice – Consumer Protection
  • JustCause (Rochester) – 7th Judicial District Help Center
  • Legal Aid Society of Rochester – Consumer Law
  • Western New York Law Center – Consumer Debt issues
  • NYS Supreme Court Commercial Division (Buffalo/Erie Co. and Rochester/Monroe Co.)
  • US Bankruptcy Court, WDNY
  • Assigned Counsel Program
  • Buffalo City Court Judges (3Ls only)
    • Domestic Violence Court
    • Drug Treatment Court
    • Mental Health Court
    • Veteran’s Treatment Court
  • Erie County District Attorney’s Office
    • Appellate Bureau
    • Domestic Violence Bureau
    • Trials Bureau
  • Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo
    • Appeals and Post-Conviction Unit
    • Criminal Defense (City Court)
  • Monroe County District Attorney’s Office
    • General
    • Special Victim’s Unit
  • Monroe County Public Defender
  • Niagara County District Attorney
  • NYS Inspector General
  • US Attorney’s Office - Buffalo & Rochester Offices
  • Buffalo City Court
  • NYS Court of Appeals (Buffalo)
  • NYS Supreme Court (Buffalo/Erie Co., Lockport/Niagara Co., Mayville/Chautauqua Co., and Rochester/Monroe Co.)
  • NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 4th Department (Buffalo)
  • US District Court Judges & Magistrate Judges, WDNY (Buffalo and Rochester)
  • Buffalo Board of Education - Office of General Counsel
  • Legal Aid Society of Rochester – Education Law Unit
  • SUNY Office of General Counsel - Higher Education and Health Law
  • NYS Attorney General’s Office - Environmental Protection Bureau
  • Assigned Counsel Program
  • Center for Elder Law & Justice
    • Elder Abuse Prevention
    • Guardianship Services
    • Kinship Care Legal Services
    • Long Term Care Resident Advocacy
    • Surrogate’s Court Help Desk
  • JustCause (Rochester) – Family Unit
  • Legal Aid Society of Rochester – Family Law Unit
  • NYS Supreme Court Expedited Matrimonial Part (Buffalo/Erie County)
    • This placement can be either an externship (2Ls or 3Ls); or a judicial externship (3Ls)
  • Volunteer Lawyers Project
    • Family Court Help desk (Erie County and Niagara County)
    • Working with Positive Families and Individuals – health related planning
  • Erie County Family Court
  • Erie County Surrogate’s Court
  • Monroe County Surrogate’s Court
  • NYS Supreme Court Expedited Matrimonial Part (Buffalo/Erie County)
    • This placement can be either an externship (2Ls or 3Ls); or a judicial externship (3Ls)
  • Center for Elder Law & Justice
    • Elder Abuse Prevention
    • Guardianship Services
    • Health Care Advocacy
    • Long Term Care Resident Advocacy
    • MedLaw Partnership of WNY
  • JustCause (Rochester) – Health Unit
  • SUNY Office of General Counsel - Higher Education and Health Law
  • Trillium Health, Inc. (Rochester)
  • Center for Elder Law & Justice – Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention
  • JustCause (Rochester) – Tenant Defense Project (TDP)
  • Legal Aid Society of Rochester – Housing Law
  • Neighborhood Legal Services – Healthy Homes
  • Volunteer Lawyers Project - Attorney of the Morning at City Court - Landlord-Tenant issues
  • Journey’s End Refugee Services
  • JustCause (Rochester) -- Immigration
  • Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo - Coordinated Refugee Asylee Legal Services Project
  • Legal Aid Society of Rochester – Immigration Unit
  • US Immigration & Customs Enforcement
  • Volunteer Lawyers Project – Immigration (Buffalo and Batavia)
  • US District Court, WDNY (Buffalo and Rochester)
  • UB Technology Transfer – Contracts & Patents
  • SUNY Research Foundation – Contracts & Patents
  • Buffalo City Court
  • Erie County Family Court
  • Erie County Surrogate’s Court
  • Monroe County Surrogate’s Court
  • NYS Court of Appeals (Buffalo)
  • NYS Supreme Court (Buffalo/Erie Co., Lockport/Niagara Co., Mayville/Chautauqua Co., and Rochester/Monroe Co.)
  • NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 4th Department (Buffalo)
  • NYS Supreme Court Commercial Division (Buffalo/Erie Co. and Rochester/Monroe Co.)
  • NYS Supreme Court Expedited Matrimonial Part (Buffalo/Erie County)
  • US Bankruptcy Court, WDNY
  • US District Court, WDNY (Buffalo and Rochester)
  • Buffalo Board of Education – Office of General Counsel
  • Erie County Labor Relations
  • Kaleida Health
  • NYSUT (New York State United Teachers) Legal Department – Western NY
  • Public Employees Relations Board (PERB) - Administrative Law Judge
    • This placement can be either an externship (2Ls or 3Ls); or a judicial externship (3Ls)
  • US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
  • Law Library
  • NYS Assembly and Senate
  • City of Buffalo Law Department
  • Erie County Attorney
  • Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA)
  • NYS Liquor Authority
  • Taxpayer Advocate Service
  • Volunteer Lawyers Project – Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
  • Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel