New York State Attorney General’s Office - Antitrust Enforcement Externship

Course Description

Fieldwork

This course affords students the opportunity to learn and experience antitrust enforcement from the perspective of state government. The fieldwork portion of the externship will consist of placement in the Antitrust Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where students will devote 15 hours per week. AAG supervisors will assist students with getting assignments in their areas of interest and balancing workload. Supervisors will also maintain an active dialogue with externship professors concerning student progress with the goal of providing regular feedback on student performance.

Seminar

The seminar will meet for two hours each week and will be graded based on class participation, written submissions, and performance during assigned in-class presentations. The seminar will provide opportunities to study the work of the Antitrust Bureau in detail, discuss case studies drawn from recent enforcement work, gain familiarity with various legal issues related to antitrust law, reflect on fieldwork, and develop skills in legal writing, investigatory techniques, and litigation.

Application Procedure

Students should submit via CAMS the standard application, resume, transcript, writing sample (preferably not more than five pages long), and two references (include their names and contact information at the bottom of your resume).

This externship accepts applications for a limited number of positions for LL.M. students, if space permits. Consult the Clinics Open to LL.M. Students page to see if the clinic is available to LL.M.s in the current year. Please note there is a separate application form for LL.M.s. The deadline is different from that for JDs and is posted on the Clinic Application Timelines page. Selected LL.M. students will be contacted for interviews in the summer as part of the selection process.

Security Background Check

Students selected for the externship will also be required to pass a security background check overseen by the Attorney General’s Legal Recruitment Bureau. Students will be provided with additional paperwork relating to this process upon selection for the externship. A favorable determination from Legal Recruitment is required before an extern may begin working in the Attorney General’s Office. Students accepted for the externship should complete the required paperwork as soon as possible after acceptance into the externship so that final approval from Legal Recruitment can be timely obtained.
 

* Students are not eligible to take the New York State Attorney General’s Office - Antitrust  Enforcement Externship in both the Fall and Spring semesters, but students may apply for both semesters.

** The 5 credits consist of 3 clinical (fieldwork) credits for working 15 hours per week at the NYS Attorney General’s Office, and 2 academic seminar credits per semester. This class is offered on a Credit/Fail basis for fieldwork, and is graded for the seminar.