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Externship Opportunities

Administrative Law

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• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Health and Human Services
• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Civil Division
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

State

• Coastal Conservation League
• Fort Gordon, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate (Augusta, Georgia)
• Fort Jackson, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate
• Human Affairs Commission
• Latin American Association (Atlanta, Georgia)
• Municipal Association of South Carolina
• Santee Cooper
• SC Attorney General’s Office — Environmental Crimes
• SC Attorney General’s Office — Post Conviction Relief
• SC Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (SCDAODAS)
• SC Department of Corrections
• SC Department of Education
• SC Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW)
• SC Department of Employment Works
• SC Department of Health and Environmental Control
• SC Department of Health and Human Services
• SC Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
• SC Department of Natural Resources
• SC Department of Public Safety
• SC Department of Revenue
• SC PEBA
• Ocean and Coastal Resources Management
• Office of the Governor
• University of South Carolina Office of Compliance

Children’s Law

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• Kershaw County Department of Social Services
• Kershaw County Guardian Ad Litem
• Lexington County Department of Juvenile Justice
• Lexington County Department of Social Services
• Lexington County Public Defender
• Richland County Public Defender
• Richland County Public Defender’s Office — Juvenile Justice Re-Entry Program
• Richland County Solicitor
• Richland County Department of Social Services
• South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
• South Carolina Attorney General’s Office of Human Trafficking
• South Carolina Department of Education
• South Carolina Legal Services

Criminal Law

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• Federal Public Defender
• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Criminal Division

State

• Aiken County Solicitor
• Beaufort County Solicitor
• Charleston County Public Defender
• Greenville County Solicitor
• Hendersonville District Attorney’s Office (Hendersonville, NC)
• Horry County Solicitor
• Kershaw County Solicitor’s Office
• Lexington County Public Defender
• Lexington County Solicitor
• Orangeburg Public Defender’s Office
• Richland County Public Defender
• Richland County Public Defender’s Office — Juvenile Justice Re-Entry Program
• Richland County Solicitor
• Safe and Stable Families, Domestic Violence Project (Atlanta, Georgia)
• South Carolina Attorney General’s Office
• South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense — Capital Trial Division
• South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
• South Carolina Victims Assistance Network
• York County Public Defender

In House Counsel

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• AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
• AstenJohnson
• Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina
• Fidelity National Title Insurance Company
• Honda of South Carolina
• Lake City Partnership Council
• Lexington Medical Center
• Palmetto Health
• Samsung
• South Carolina PEBA
• TRU Simulation + Training
• University of South Carolina’s Technology Communication Office

Judicial — Federal

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• The Honorable Henry Floyd
• The Honorable Dennis Shedd (by special application)

U.S. Federal District Court

• The Honorable Joseph Anderson
• The Honorable Michelle Childs
• The Honorable Robert Conrad (Western District of NC)
• The Honorable R. Bryan Harwell
• The Honorable Mary Geiger Lewis
• The Honorable Margaret B. Seymour

U.S. Federal Magistrate Court

• The Honorable Paige Gossett

U.S. Bankruptcy Court

• The Honorable David Duncan
• The Honorable John Waites

Judicial — State

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• The Honorable John C. Few
• The Honorable Kaye G. Hearn

Court of Appeals

• The Honorable J. Douglas McCullough (NC)
• The Honorable Paula H. Thomas
• The Honorable Bruce Williams

Circuit Court

• The Honorable DeAndrea Benjamin
• The Honorable Paul Burch
• The Honorable G. Thomas Cooper
• The Honorable Edgar Gregory (NC)
• The Honorable Eugene C. Griffith, Jr.
• The Honorable John C. Hayes III
• The Honorable Robert Hood
• The Honorable William P. Keesley
• The Honorable Alison Renee Lee
• The Honorable Casey Manning
• The Honorable Knox McMahon
• The Honorable Clifton Newman
• The Honorable Thomas Russo

Family Court

• The Honorable Rosalyn Frierson-Smith
• The Honorable Paul Garfinkel
• The Honorable Michelle Hurley
• The Honorable Dorothy Mobley Jones
• The Honorable Gwendlyne Y. Jones
• The Honorable George McFaddin
• The Honorable Nancy C. McLin
• The Honorable Leslie Riddle

Masters in Equity

• The Honorable James Spence
• The Honorable Joseph Strickland

Probate Court

• The Honorable Amy McCulloch
• The Honorable Carolyn Rogers

Magistrate’s Court

• The Honorable Caroline Streater

Administrative Law Court

• The Honorable Deborah Brooks Durden
• The Honorable Phillip Lenski

Workers’ Compensation Commission

• J. Keith Roberts, Esq.

Legislation

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• Senator Chip Campsen
• Senator Tom Davis
• Senator Marlon Kimpson
• Senator Shane Massey
• Senator Luke Rankin

South Carolina House

• Representative Bruce Bannister
• Representative J. Derham Cole, Jr.
• Representative Laurie Funderburk
• Representative Chris Hart
• Representative Walt McLeod
• Representative Tommy Pope
• Representative Todd Rutherford
• Representative Ronnie Sabb
• Representative James E. Smith, Jr.