This clinical course is open to second and third year students. Mr. Marcello and Ms. Wilson. Student Judicial Externship Selected students clerk for a federal district court judge in New Orleans, for a US Magistrate, for a federal bankruptcy judge, or for a judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit. Ms. Jackson and Judicial Externship Faculty. This course is intended to prepare and train students in advocacy skills for litigation.
Students participate in intensive role-playing of simulated trial problems.
Members of the faculty and distinguished guest lecturers give demonstration performances. Each student is videotaped at least once, is critiqued by a faculty member, and then reviews his or her performance on videotape. The faculty includes experienced trial lawyers and judges, who rotate through each section so that students will be exposed to a variety of views and ideas. Each student tries a jury trial at the conclusion of the course. The course has a limited enrollment, and third-year students receive preference.