This list is organized into three groups of opportunities based on the type of client you would be serving:

If You Want To Represent Business or Business Owners

Corporate In-House Counsel

Red Ventures 

Where: Fort Mill, SC

Practice Areas: Red Ventures is a technology development and digital customer acquisition company that specializes in utilizing proprietary technologies and data analytics within a variety of online and offline marketing channels to create business solutions for various national brand partners. In support of those efforts, the RV Legal Department engages in a wide range of legal practice areas, including corporate, intellectual property and technology, marketing, compliance and regulatory work, employment, privacy, real estate, international, mergers and acquisition, contracts, and other transactional matters.

Type of Work: Students will have the opportunity for hands-on involvement in the daily operations of the RV Legal Department, participating in internal business and legal meetings, drafting contracts and other legal materials, performing legal and business research, reviewing promotional materials, and otherwise working with other Department members to support the diverse breadth of the company’s business.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Syngenta

Where: Research Triangle Park

Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Patent Law in the area of Seeds & Biotechnology

Type of Work: Syngenta is a global leader at providing essential inputs to growers: crop protection, seeds, seed treatments and traits. Its mission is to deliver better food for a better world through outstanding crop solutions.  Students will draft patent applications, prepare responses to office actions, review agreements, and draft opinions.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: The ideal student would be a patent agent or someone with a basic understanding of intellectual property and an undergraduate and/or graduate degree in the Chemical or Biotechnology fields (e.g. Chemistry, Chemical engineering, Agronomy, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Genetics or Biochemistry).

The Carroll Companies 

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Real estate transactions, business law, construction law, contract law, landlord-tenant law, and employment law.

Type of Work: The Carroll Companies is a privately owned, in-house real estate development and management firm. Students will be involved in the transactional side of law practice.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: Student must be at or near the top 15% of class. Personality, interest, and drive will be considerations.

Litigation

Carruthers & Roth, P.A.

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Litigation (primary): option to work in corporate, tax, commercial real estate, and estate planning

Type of Work: Student would complete work similar to that performed by a summer associate: research, drafting, accompanying supervising attorney to depositions, hearings, trials

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available:  Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: Student must be in top third of class.

Mixed Practice

Milazzo Webb Law, PLLC

Where: Charlotte, NC

Practice Areas:

  • Corporate: Mergers and acquisitions, technology, supply chain and outsourcing transactions, private equity and venture capital transactions, commercial business transactions, loan modifications and other general corporate work, such as corporate organization or dissolution; Commercial Real Estate, Wills and Estate
  • Litigation: Business Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Employment Law, Property Subrogation and Recovery, Tax Controversy, Criminal Law, Family Law

Type of Work:

  • Transactional Work – law student shall meet with legal team to determine course of action on legal matters, legal research and analysis, drafting of documents, shadowing attorneys and engaging in networking opportunities geared for corporate sector business
  • Litigation Work – law student shall meet with legal team to determine course of action on litigation matters, legal research and analysis, drafting of documents, shadowing attorneys, attend hearings with attorneys, attend client meetings and depositions.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: The qualified candidate will be business savvy and have a good working knowledge of business law concepts and/or litigation process

Walker Lambe Rhudy Costley & Gill, PLLC

Where: Durham

Practice Areas: 

  • Litigation (Focus on fiduciary, trusts/estates, and business law)
  • Business law (wide range of issues)

Type of Work: Legal research, drafting pleadings/discovery/motions, deposition prep, maybe mediation prep, witness interviews, drafting and reviewing contracts, client interviews.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Spring only

Robertson & Associates

Where: Charlotte, NC

Practice Areas: Construction Litigation, Business & Commercial Litigation, Creditor’s Rights, Employer Defense, Real Property, Commercial Real Estate, Insurance Defense, Estate Planning and Estate Administration.

Type of Work: Legal research and writing, document drafting (transactional and trial), client counseling, attending motions, depositions, and mediations.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Transactional

Capital City Law

Where: Raleigh, NC

Practice Areas:  1) Real Estate Closings and Practice and 2) Business Law Practice

Type of Work: 1) Real Estate: Preparation of title opinions. Escrow procedures. Settlement process / conference and 2) Business Law: Contract Negotiation, Contract Drafting Review, Legal Side of Financing

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Elon Law Small Business & Entrepreneurship Clinic

Where: Elon Law School

Practice Areas: Business Law

Type of Work: Business-related legal services to entrepreneurs and small business owners who would not otherwise be able to afford legal representation. Students develop analytical, planning, editorial and counseling skills in the context of client projects and reality-grounded class work. Services provided by the clinic include, but are not limited to, choice of entity advising, organizational document drafting and review, contract review and drafting, employment and human resource advising, regulatory compliance, and drafting financing documentation.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: Ability to converse in Spanish preferred but not required.

If You Want to Represent Individuals or Families:

Civil Litigation

A.G. Linett & Associates, PA

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury, Employment Law, and other Plaintiff-side Civil Litigation

Type of Work: The student will work with our workers’ compensation and personal injury attorneys primarily and will learn how to perform case evaluations, draft discovery requests and responses, draft civil filings, prepare for and attend mediations, depositions, and hearings, and research assignments.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: Strong writing skills are necessary in this busy civil practice. A majority of clients are Spanish speaking so a student with some Spanish language ability would be preferred, but is not required.

Children’s Law Center of Central North Carolina

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Family Law, Civil and Domestic Violence Practice, Child Advocacy

Type of Work: The student will participate in civil domestic violence cases in which the CLC is appointed to advocate for the child in Guilford County. He/She will participate in interviewing the parties and in home visits. He/She will conduct civil and criminal record searches, interview collateral witnesses, review DSS records, police reports, school records, medical records among others and prepare a written report with findings, concerns and recommendations for the District Court judges. The student may testify in court. The student will monitor court in Greensboro and on Mondays in High Point.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: Family Law a preferred but not required prerequisite. Also note that the student will be driving roundtrip to High Point each Monday and will be required to pay for parking at the parking deck near the courthouse. The CLC does not have the funds to reimburse the student for mileage or parking.

Law Offices of Fred T. Hamlet

Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law

Type of Work: The student’s duties will include: clerical tasks; client intake interviews; drafting pleadings, briefs, and other legal documents; legal research; document review; and attendance at client meetings, depositions, mediations, administrative hearings, and court proceedings. The resident may also represent clients in telephone hearings before North Carolina Division of Employment Security Appeals Referees and Hearing Officers.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

The Rawlings Law Firm

Where: Winston-Salem

Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury

Type of Work: The student will work primarily, although not exclusively, in the area of medical malpractice and will learn how to perform case evaluations, sit in on and lead client conferences, to draft discovery requests and responses, complaints, demand letters, and prepare for and attend any depositions, mediations, and office meetings scheduled during the student’s time. In addition, the student will be significantly involved with any trials that occur during the student’s placement; however, the practice is not trial heavy and it is possible that no trials may occur.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: This is a small office with an open door policy and we look forward to working with you.

Criminal Litigation

NC Public Defender Offices

In North Carolina, indigent persons charged with one or more crimes will be represented either by a public defender or a private attorney appointed by the court.  There are currently 16 county- and district-based public defender offices in North Carolina, which cover 17 judicial districts and 31 counties.  Students doing their Residency at the offices listed below will engage in a variety of activities, including: Client and witness interviews, crime scene investigation and evidence gathering, mitigation collection, expert witness evaluation, sentencing evaluation, and preparation and motion drafting.  In addition, because Residents can be certified under the NC Student Practice Rule, students will be able to participate in courtroom procedures such pleas, bond hearings, negotiations and trials.  Students are encouraged but are not required to take Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Trial Advocacy as a prerequisite.

Guilford County Public Defender

Where: Greensboro
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Forsyth County Public Defender

Where: Winston-Salem
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Mecklenburg County Public Defender

Where: Winston-Salem
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Wake County Public Defender

Where: Raleigh
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Family and Children Law

Adrian Davis, The Law Office of

Where: Raleigh

Practice Areas: Family Law and ADR

Type of Work: Divorces, drafting separation agreements, observing collaborative law four ways, general family law work that is not related.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Children’s Law Center of Central North Carolina

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Family Law, Civil and Domestic Violence Practice, Child Advocacy

Type of Work: The student will participate in civil domestic violence cases in which the CLC is appointed to advocate for the child in Guilford County. He/She will participate in interviewing the parties and in home visits. He/She will conduct civil and criminal record searches, interview collateral witnesses, review DSS records, police reports, school records, medical records among others and prepare a written report with findings, concerns and recommendations for the District Court judges. The student may testify in court. The student will monitor court in Greensboro and on Mondays in High Point.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: Family Law is a preferred but not required prerequisite.  The student must be willing to drive roundtrip to High Point each Monday and  to pay for parking at the parking deck near the courthouse. The CLC does not have the funds to reimburse the student for mileage or parking.

Elon Law Emergency Legal Services and Advocacy Program for Victims of Crime

Where: Primarily Greensboro; may also go to Burlington

Practice Areas: Family Law; Domestic violence and sexual assault law

Type of Work: Review of the applicable statutes and case law; consultation with clients, reviewing of pleadings for e-filings; review of cases for emergency as well as non-emergency family law issues; collaboration with other Family Justice Center partners

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: Student must have strong listening skills with a sensitivity to people who are in varying degrees of crisis.

Kirkman Attorneys at Law

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas:  Kirkman Attorneys at Law is a regional leader in the areas of divorce, matrimonial, and family law. Students in this placement will find significant learning opportunities with the firm in all areas of family law. As a firm that regularly handles a variety of family issues including many which are complex, students in this placement will likely encounter work that transcends family law and includes legal issues in the areas of real estate, criminal law, business law, taxes, probate, estate planning, evidence, trial advocacy, civil procedure, and constitutional law among others.  While a student in this placement will likely be primarily focused on family matters, the firm’s other practice areas in which a student may receive exposure during a residency including civil litigation, criminal defense, estate planning, estate administration, construction law, and business law.

Type of Work: Students will have the opportunity for involvement in the daily operations of this busy law practice. Activities likely will include: participating in frequent meetings with the firm’s attorneys and support staff to determine appropriate course of action on litigation and non-litigation matters, legal research and analysis, drafting pleadings and motions, drafting discovery requests and responses, drafting and reviewing contracts, shadowing attorneys, observing client interviews, observing dispute resolution and negotiation, attending court appearances/trials/hearings with the firm’s attorneys, attending pre-trial conferences and other judicial conferences with the firm’s attorneys, attending client meetings, attending mediations, participating in trial preparations, and otherwise working with the members of the firm to support its diverse law practice and the delivery of superior client services.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: Students should have a strong interest in practicing family law, including divorce, child custody, and family financial issues. Students should be prepared to participate in legal matters which require compassion, emotional fortitude, knowledge of the law, and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment. Completed coursework in family law and evidence are preferred and encouraged but are not a required prerequisite.

Southpark Family Law

Where: Charlotte

Practice Areas: Family Law, Guardianship, Mediation, Collaborative Law

Type of Work: Drafting of pleadings and agreements, client consultations, discovery and trial preparation, dispute resolution and negotiation.  Also possibility of court observation and/or project work related to various committees on which the supervising attorney serves.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: Must be interested in family law.

Financial Matters

Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy: Consumer Disputes and Foreclosure

Where: Charlotte

Practice Areas: Predatory lending practices; Automobile financing, warranties and fraud; Unfair and deceptive trade practices; Unfair debt collection practices; Student loan issues; Credit repair; Foreclosure defense; Home financing and mortgage service disputes; Chapter 7 and 13 Bankruptcy

Type of Work: This program seeks to build financial security among low-income families by addressing abusive lending practices and protecting home and automobile ownership. In addition to research and writing of memorandums , pleadings, motions and other court documents, the student will be expected to engage in direct client contact, specifically telephone screening, client interviews and intake, as well as trial preparation. Depending on the skill and comfort level of the student, he or she may be able to take a client from initial intake to hearing possibly having an opportunity to appear in District Court.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: Knowledge of Spanish is helpful, but not required. Certification is optional but would be required for appearance in District Courts.

General Practice

Legal Aid of North Carolina

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Landlord/tenant, mortgage foreclosure defense, domestic violence and other family law, public benefits, education, expungements, elder law (includes simple wills and powers of attorney)

Type of Work: Interviewing and advising clients, drafting pleadings, drafting correspondence, legal research, investigation of clients’ cases, negotiation, representing clients in court and administrative hearings

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Pisgah Legal Services 

Where: Asheville, NC

Practice Areas: Housing and Consumer Law; Landlord/Tenant Law; Consumer and Foreclosure Defense; Domestic Violence/Family Law; Immigration Law; and Poverty Law

Type of Work: Research, drafting, client interviews, case planning, supervised representation if student has practice certificate. Students would also be exposed to weekly staff meetings where larger policy issues are often addressed.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Government Benefits and Rights

Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy: Health Care and Public Benefits

Where: Charlotte

Practice Areas: Health Law, Public Benefits, Tax Law

Type of Work: This program seeks to ensure that low-income children, the elderly, disabled persons, immigrants and their families have fair access to vital health care and public services. Students will work on all aspects of a case – from intake to research and writing to participating in the administrative hearing.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy: Veterans Legal Services

Where: Charlotte

Practice Area: Veterans Law

Type of Work: Students will interview clients and provide research and writing assistance on cases involving veterans’ disability and pension claims and appeals; civil legal issues for which there are specific remedies relating to clients’ military service under the Service Member Civil Relief Act and Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act; as well as other civil legal matters, e.g., housing, consumer protection and employment law.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Immigration Law

A.G. Linett & Associates, PA

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Immigration law (primary); may also work on other civil litigation matters (see listing above)

Type of Work: Student will work primarily with our immigration practice which is transactional, family based petitions, non-immigrant visas, research memos, and some removal defense. We would also envision the student taking research and drafting tasks from our other practice areas, which would include discovery, drafting civil filings, research projects, attending and preparing for depositions, and client interviews.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: A majority of clients are Spanish speaking so an individual with some Spanish language ability would be a plus but is not required.

Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy: Immigrant Justice Program

Where: Charlotte

Practice Areas: Immigration, consumer, housing, landlord/tenant, benefits, and domestic violence protection orders.

Type of Work: The resident will work initially on concrete portions of larger cases and will eventually be assigned her or his own cases. Types of cases include U and T visas for victims of trafficking and violent crimes, VAWA petitions, Removal defense, Asylum claims, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Consular processing, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Ensuring minimal habitability standards, Preventing housing discrimination, and Defending evictions in rental housing. The student will have significant client contact and will have the opportunity to represent clients in District Court and Immigration Court pursuant to the Student Practice Rule.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: Student must speak and write Spanish well enough to interpret interviews of clients in Spanish and to translate documents from Spanish to English. Also, the ideal candidate will be comfortable interacting with clients who have suffered extreme physical and/or emotional injury.

Elon Law Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic

Where: Elon Law

Practice Areas: Immigration Law, Human Rights Law

Type of Work: Under the supervision of law faculty and HILC staff, students represent refugees and asylees applying for Lawful Permanent Residence status, citizenship, and family reunification. Students will also have the opportunity to represent clients applying for asylum, and for clients seeking other forms of lawful immigration status from USCIS. Students will have the opportunity to directly represent clients, perform intake interviews, analyze cases for legal remedies, collect evidence, draft applications and briefs, and obtain training on how to use immigration case management software. Students will also have the opportunity to observe and participate in hearings before federal administrative agencies and courts.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Yanez Immigration Law

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Immigration Law

Type of Work: We would be able to provide exposure to a wide variety of immigration cases.  The student would be able to prepare briefs and filings with the US Citizenship and Immigration Service and Charlotte Immigration Court.  We focus on family-based green card cases, fiancé visas, consular processing in countries throughout the world, waiver cases that require providing extreme hardship to a U.S. citizen spouse, U visas for victims of crimes, VAWA cases (Violence Against Women Act) which allow victims of domestic violence to apply for their green cards, and naturalizations filings.  We also handle appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and Motions to Reopen before Immigration Courts throughout the country.  In addition, the student will be able to observe client consultations and meetings, interviews in Charlotte and Durham Immigration offices, and immigration court in Charlotte.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

Where: Raleigh

Practice Areas: Immigration Law, Family Law

Type of Work: Students will be able to have hands-on experience with all types of immigration forms, from family reunification, to U-Visas, to residency and naturalization applications. They will also be able to work in-depth on unaccompanied minor cases as well as asylum cases for victims of domestic violence and gang persecution. Students will conduct thorough research and case analysis and be able to attend custody court and Immigration court if they so desire.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

If You Want to Work for the Government, Educational Institutions, or the Public Interest

Civil Litigation

Goldwater Institute

Where: Phoenix, Arizona

Practice Area: Constitutional Litigation

Type of Work: Legal research, case analysis, court preparation, drafting and litigation strategy.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Guilford County Attorney’s Office

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Child welfare law, civil procedure, termination of parental rights

Type of Work: Drafting legal documents, reviewing exhibits, researching statutes and case law.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: Preferable interest in child welfare law or in being a government attorney in general.

Southern Environmental Law Center

Where: Chapel Hill

Practice Area: Environmental Law

Type of Work: Research, writing, attending hearings, etc.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter only

Special considerations: Must be enthusiastic about environmental law

Compliance

National Labor Relations Board, Subregion 11

Where: Winston-Salem

Practice Areas: The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency that protects the rights of private sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve their wages and working conditions. It’s lawyers practice traditional labor law.

Type of Work: Field Attorney case-handling (under strict supervision): Investigating unfair labor practice charges, legal research and factual analysis into whether the charged party violated the NLRA, making a recommendation to the Officer in Charge as to whether the charge has merit, and writing the memorandum to memorialize the decision. May participate in local representation elections (where employees decide whether they wish to be represented by a union) and observe ULP trials scheduled for the Subregional office.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

North Carolina Real Estate Commission

Where: Raleigh

Practice Areas: The North Carolina Real Estate Commission is an independent state governmental agency. The Commission’s primary function is to license and regulate real estate agents (persons and firms who sell, lease, etc. real estate for others). Areas of practice are Administrative Law, Occupational licensing, Real Estate, and Litigation.

Type of Work: Drafting witness questions, conducting inquiries, drafting notices of hearing, and legal research.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Spring only

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance 

Where: Washington, DC

Practice Area: Environmental Law

Type of Work: Students will work with practicing environmental lawyers and technical professionals on active cases, policies and other projects related to civil (administrative and judicial) and criminal enforcement, inspections, targeting/priorities, federal facilities enforcement, state and tribal enforcement coordination and other policy matters to support implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, FIFRA, RCRA, TSCA, and CERCLA. Specific projects and assigned practice areas will depend upon the student’s placement.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: The EPA looks for qualified and highly motivated candidates with superior records of achievement and a commitment to environmental and/or law enforcement work who work well in teams. Interested applicants should submit a resume, a list of two or three references (name, title, phone number and email address), a writing sample, and a cover letter that includes a statement of interest that highlights particular skills and subject area preferences.

Criminal Litigation

NC District Attorney Offices 

In North Carolina, a District Attorney (DA) is the elected public official who represents the state in the prosecution of all criminal matters. The district attorney supervises a staff of assistant district attorneys (ADA), victim witness legal assistants (VWLA), investigators, and other administrative employees. The type of work for students include: Client Interviewing; Court Appearance; Document Drafting; Fact Development & Analysis; Witness Interviewing; Negotiation; Oral Arguments/Presentations; and Organization & Management of Legal Work. Students are encouraged but not required to take Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Trial Advocacy as a prerequisite.

Alamance County

Where: Graham
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Guilford County

Where: Greensboro
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Guilford County

Where: High Point
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Spring only

In-House Counsel and Corporate

Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Schools, Legal Department

Where: Charlotte

Practice Areas: Education law; employment law

Type of Work: Students will have the opportunity to provide advice and counsel to school district employees, to assist with employee appeals and student expulsion hearings before the Board, participate in all stages of litigation, attend administrative hearings and Board meetings, participate in IEP meetings, assist with in-service training for to employees, review contracts, and engage in policy and legislative analysis. Interns will be exposed to all aspects of legal operations and will gain experience in many aspects of in-house counsel work.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special considerations: Strong verbal and written communication skills are important given the varying constituencies with which the student may interact.

City of Greensboro City Attorney’s Office 

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Municipal Law, Employment Law, Real Estate, Zoning, Constitutional Law

Type of Work: Legal research, draft pleadings and motions, litigation support

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

City of Greensboro City Attorney’s Office:  Police

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Criminal Procedure and Police Law

Type of Work: legal research, respond to inquiries from officers, draft pleadings and motions, litigation support

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Special Considerations: Background Check Required Prior to Interview

North Carolina Attorney General’s Office – Transportation Section

Where: Raleigh

Practice Areas: The Transportation Division of the Attorney General’s Office advises the North Carolina Department of Transportation and the North Carolina Turnpike Authority and represents the agency in administrative, state and federal courts, at both trial and appellate levels.  The Division concentrates in the following areas of law: eminent domain; construction; environmental, employment, outdoor advertising control, state contracting and procurement, issues relating to railroads, aviation, bicycles and other forms of transportation.

Type of Work: Legal research and writing, document review, attendance at trials, depositions, mediations and all other aspects of litigation. Attendance at client consultations and agency board meetings.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter only

University of North Carolina Greensboro, Office of General Counsel

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: Higher Education Law, Employment Law, Policy/Regulatory; Administrative Law

Type of Work: Legal research and memorandum drafting; Policy review and drafting; Review of contractual agreements; Assistance in development of policy white papers; and Assistance in developing and implementing professional training on legal hot topics

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Spring only

Special Considerations: Collaborative, flexible, self-starter; good listener; attention to detail; intellectual curiosity about variety of legal issues including issues of public policy; administrative law coursework or interest; strong research and writing skills.

Public Policy

Transformative Justice Coalition

Where: Washington, D.C.

Practice Areas: Civil Rights & Human Rights

Type of Work: research, writing, legal analysis, interviewing, and legislative advocacy

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring

Transactional

Piedmont Land Conservancy

Where: Greensboro

Practice Areas: General Corporate and Transactional Practice; Conservation easements and other real estate issues including title work; purchase and sale agreements; leases; options and grant administration.

Type of Work: The student would have an opportunity to explore various aspects of nonprofit management including, corporate organizational matters; attend Board meetings and take minutes; participate in meetings with landowners and prospective easement donors; draft conservation easements; prepare for real estate closings and complete due diligence related to conservation easement transactions. In addition, the student would experience other aspects of working with an environmental nonprofit organization including outreach and development opportunities, writing grants, completing grant reporting and organizing and maintaining corporate records related to conservation easement transactions.

Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter or Spring

Former placements that may sign on for 2019 include the following:

  • American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (Raleigh, NC)
  • Deuterman Law Group (Greensboro, NC)
  • First Circuit Public Defender (Summerville, SC)
  • LAWSMITH, The Law Offices of J. Scott Smith, PLLC (Winston-Salem, NC)
  • Lea/Schultz Law Firm, P.C. (Wilmington, NC)
  • Neopatents & Neo IP (Durham, NC)
  • Pisgah Legal Services (Asheville, NC)
  • Rawlings Law Firm (Winston-Salem, NC)
  • Red Hat (Raleigh, NC)
  • Rossabi Reardon Klein Spivey PLLC (Greensboro, NC)
  • Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP (Greensboro, NC)
  • Soltys Law (Greensboro, NC)
  • Surratt & Thompson (Winston-Salem, NC)
  • The Nature Conservancy (Durham, NC)
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Region 4, Office of General Counsel (Atlanta, GA)
  • Ward Black (Greensboro, NC)
  • Williams & Williams (Durham, NC)