Practical Experiences - Albany Law School

Realize your dreams of making a difference.

Better opportunities. Bigger impact.

Your opportunity to impact.

Whether you’re looking to make an impact on your community or the world at large, look no further than Albany Law School. As the only law school within 90 miles of the bustling New York capital, our campus is conveniently located in the heart of state government, the New York court system, private law firms, and technology start-ups, not to mention dozens of local municipalities. This gives our students a unique advantage over their peers in other law programs: namely, the opportunity to obtain real, practical experience as part of their day-to-day studies.

Where practical experience makes perfect sense.

• Take advantage of guaranteed field placements or clinics.

• Spend time working in New York State government offices.

• Learn about law and cybersecurity in the heart of Tech Valley.

• Perform real legal work for the region’s underrepresented populations.

Second- and third-year students at Albany Law School have the opportunity to supplement their classroom experiences with more than 150 internships, legal clinics and intensive semesterlong placements throughout the Capital Region.

Field Placements

Law Clinic & Justice Center

As the only law school in New York State’s capital, field placement opportunities abound. Qualified students can receive academic credit while interning at one (or several) of our open placements, including:

Highly ranked among other U.S. law school clinics, this program gives you the opportunity to assist hundreds of individuals in the region who cannot afford or have no access to legal representation.

Clinic programs include:

• Criminal defense and prosecution

• Family violence litigation

• Public interest advocacy

• Immigration law

• Government agencies • Law firms

• Community development, including assisting start-ups

• Science and technology companies

• Domestic violence prosecution hybrid

• Judicial chambers

• Mediation

• Health law

Pro Bono Program Our Pro Bono Program allows you to provide law-related services to low-income families in New York and advocate for communities across the country. Flexible and farreaching, it gives students the freedom to develop their own projects. Popular ones include: • Providing resources to recently released prisoners • Contributing tax assistance to low-income families • Providing legal education workshops and other services to seniors, veterans and LGBT communities • Conducting legal research for civil rights organizations

Moot Court Program

Semester/Summer in Practice

This is a unique opportunity to compete in eight national competitions before real live judges. In addition, the school hosts the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Competition, where students compete face-to-face with their peers from 22 law schools across the country.

Immerse yourself in a single, semester-long placement in government and law offices throughout the world and earn a semester’s worth of academic credits, while learning by doing.

Student placements have included working in the White House, the chambers of federal judges, the offices of the New York Attorney General, and many other exciting settings. While the pace can be fast, the impact it has on you personally and professionally will last a lifetime.

Participants receive intensive training in:

Semester in Government

• Oral and written appellate advocacy

Thanks to our location in the heart of New York State’s powerful government, this program gives you the unique opportunity to spend a concentrated amount of time performing meaningful legal work in the offices of counsel to federal and state departments, Congress, as well as the state legislature.

• Trial advocacy • Client counseling • Negotiation

Keeping it real.

The goal of our program is simple: to give you the real knowledge and handson experience you need to hit the ground running in the real world. We pride ourselves on providing a multitude of impactful, rewarding opportunities in the field. In fact, students can typically choose from more than 150 different field placements, and often experience more than one internship over the course of the three-year program.

was a valuable supplement to my classroom learning. I was immersed firsthand what it takes to be an attorney on a day-to-day basis.

Savannah Chinski ’18

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in a busy law firm, and learned

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I learned how to use the law to achieve progressive victories for

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My full-time summer internship

people who are otherwise unrepresented or underrepresented.

Kevin Murphy ’16

Albany Law School by the Numbers

6

National ranking for preparing

150

Number of available

Number of schools with

students in prosecution and

field placements

Albany Law named

20

public defense

“most innovative” in 2017

(preLaw Magazine, winter 2016)

by preLaw Magazine.

10:1 Student-faculty ratio

1

National ranking for preparing

10,500

students for a career in government

a powerful support network for

(preLaw Magazine, winter 2016)

students.

Number of alumni that help form

80 New Scotland Avenue Albany, New York 12208-3494 Admissions Phone: (518) 445-2326 www.albanylaw.edu/admissions admissions@albanylaw.edu

The smaller school that enables you to make a bigger impact.

If you’re looking for a law school that delivers realworld experience, you’ll find it at Albany Law School.

To learn more, call the Office of Admissions today at (518) 445-2326. Or visit www.albanylaw.edu.

Better opportunities. Bigger impact.