Field Placements
The Emory Field Placement program offers students an opportunity to earn academic credit while gaining real world legal experience. Students work under the supervision of attorneys in approved field placements. For a brief description of the program's guidelines, click here. Field placements in public interest areas include:
Nonprofit Organizations
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Atlanta Legal Aid Society
- Atlanta Legal Aid Society - Health Law Unit
- Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers - Domestic Violence Project
- Carter Center - Human Rights Committee
- Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest
- Georgia Legal Services
- Georgia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
- HealthLaw Partnership (HeLP)
- Probono Partnership of Atlanta
- Southern Environmental Law Center
- Upper Chattahoochee River Keeper
Local & State Government Agencies
- Cobb County District Attorney
- Cobb County District Attorney - Appellate Practice
- DeKalb County District Attorney
- DeKalb County Public Defender
- DeKalb County Solicitor
- Fulton County District Attorney
- Fulton State/Magistrate Court
- Georgia Attorney General's Office
Federal Government Agencies
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Labor - Office of the Solicitor
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Federal Defender
- Federal Reserve Bank
- Federal Trade Commission
- Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
- Internal Revenue Service
- United States Attorney's Office
- US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- United States Securities and Exchange Commission
- United States Trustee Office
Judicial Branch
- Fulton County Superior Court
- Georgia Supreme Court
- United States Bankruptcy Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
- United States District Court
- US Immigration Court