Other students are placed with the Office of the State Public Defender or with the Special Assistant Attorney General. Students engage in factual investigation, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, motion practice and trials under State Bar rules. Employment Relations Students interested specifically in employment discrimination may work for California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing or the San Francisco Regional Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The majority of students in the Clinical work at the Department of Fair Employment and Housing in Sacramento. The Department attorneys litigate before the Fair Employment and Housing Commission and in the local Superior Courts.
Students review files, draft complaints and prepare for hearings and witness interviews.
Last semester, one student cross-examined a union president about sexual harassment allegations against him at a San Francisco hearing before an Administrative Law Judge. Another traveled to Los Angeles to assist in a housing discrimination hearing against a landlord who refused to rent to an African American woman. Students interest in labor law may work at the Department of Personnel Administration, California's Public Employment Relations Board, the California State Employees Association, or the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. There are further opportunities to work for law firms that represent labor or management. Recent placements have worked with a variety of state and federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act, the Williamson Act, the Fifth Amendment, the California Environmental Quality Act, and the California Fish and Game Code.