Externships and Field Placements
Hit the ground running after your graduate.
Our law students graduate practice-ready with a heavy emphasis on experiential learning through our extensive internship and externship program. Annually, we place more then 120 students in work-related programs throughout the state, nation and Canada. Many placements are exclusive to UND Law students, with the Federal Courts, States Attorney’s Offices, District Courts, Civil and Criminal JAG Corps, and the North Dakota Legislature, in addition to countless positions working in private law firms across the state. A recent example of a practice ready education is a third-year student who argued five cases in front of the North Dakota Supreme Court as part of his externship experience.
UND Law students are allowed to receive their limited practice papers after completing their first year of law school, so they are encouraged to seek a work opportunity beginning the summer following the first year. Our students work individually with our Director of Field Placements and Externships to craft an experience that meets their needs and interests.
For more information about externships or field placements, contact Trish Hodny at patricia.hodny@UND.edu or 701.777.6265
Externship Placements
The following list in only a small sample of externship placements for UND Law students in the last few years.
- US Bankruptcy Court/Judge Hastings (2)
- US District Court/Magistrate Senechal (2)
- US Attorney - Alaska
- US Attorney Bismarck (2)
- US Attorney Fargo (2)
- US District Court – Bismarck/Judge Hovland & Magistrate Miller (2)
- US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
- US Dept of Justice/ATF - Washington DC
- 9th District Minnesota
- Second Judicial District - Reno, NV
- Arizona Court of Appeals
- Scotts Bluff Prosecutor - Nebraska
- Altru General Council, Grand Forks
- Bozeman Health General Council, Montana
- Burleigh County State's Attorney
- Bredahl and Associates/Indigent Defense/Judicial Clerk
- Broward County Legal Services
- Cook County SAO, Chicago IL
- Pro Bono Law Project
- Federal Public Defender - Bismarck
- Federal Public Defender - Fargo
- Public Defender - Omaha, NE
- Placer County Public Defender, CA
- Grand Forks Regional Child Support Unit
- Gunnison Law Office - Colorado
- Nelson & Griggs County SAO
- Vetsch Law Firm/Spirit Lake Tribal Court
- Legal Services of North West Minnesota
- Mahnomen County SAO
- Manitoba Law Centre - Legal Services Clinic
- Manitoba Law Reform Commission
- MHA Nation Tribal Clerkship/Judge Seaworth
- Minot City Attorney
- MN Public Defender, St. Cloud
- MN Public Defender, St. Paul
- Legal Services of North Dakota, Minot (2)
- Legal Services of North Dakota, Fargo
- Legal Services of North Dakota, Bismarck
- Legal Aid Society of Northeastern NY
- Legislative - GA Group (2)
- ND Public Defender Office, Williston
- ND Public Defender Office, Fargo
- ND Public Defender Office, Grand Forks (2)
- ND Supreme Court, Bismarck
- ND Supreme Court - Self Help\
- ND State Legislature Legislative Council (11)
- ND Governors Office
- ND Attorney General Office
- North East Judicial District, Grand Forks (3)
- North East Judicial District, Devils Lake
- Community Theater Foundation
- Pembina County SAO
- Pennington County SAO/Steve Moeller
- Pritt & Pritt Law Firm - West Virginia
- Romstad & Skoyles/City Attorney
- Galstad, Jensen & McCann, P.A./City Contract
- Spirit Lake Tribal Court Judicial Clerkship
- Sanford Health - Fargo
- Cavalier County SA/Stewart Law Office
- The Empire Arts Center Nonprofit
- UND Affirmative Action/EEOC
- UND Athletic Department Compliance
- Walsh County States Attorney (2)
- Ward County PD
- Wilkin County Attorney