Field Placements
The Emory Field Placement program offers students an opportunity to earn academic credit while gaining real world legal experience.
Emory Law helps place second- and third-year students in local, state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations and the judicial system. Students work under the supervision of attorneys in approved field placements. For a brief description of the program's guidelines, click here.
Non Profit Organizations
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Atlanta Legal Aid Society
- Atlanta Legal Aid Society - Health Law Unit
- Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers - Domestic Violence Project
- 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 and State Government Agencies
- Cobb County District Attorney
- Cobb County District Attorney - Appellate Practice
- DeKalb County District Attorney
- DeKalb County Public Defender
- 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