A paper is required. The Honorable Ernst Rosenberger Students are placed in one of the District Attorneys' Offices in the New York area or in the United States Attorney's Office in either the Southern District or Eastern District of New York. They work closely with individual prosecutors or very small groups of prosecutors within these offices. Twelve hours per week of such work is required. The duties vary widely.
All work involves actual cases, either in the courtroom or the prosecutor's office.
There are no simulations. Cases range from misdemeanors through major felonies. A close working relationship with the supervising prosecutors is fostered. In this client clinic, students will write a brief for an actual appeal. Students will help represent a person convicted of a crime appealing his conviction.