Law School ProgramsFor law students in the pipeline towards a legal profession, Just The Beginning Foundation offers resources and opportunities to assist students by exposing them to various legal opportunies (externships), helping to build resumes and assisting them in making the way through the job market and to the job that best suits them.
JTBF Externship Program provides students with invaluable experience and perspective that is both attractive and useful as they enter the legal profession.
Through its national network of judges, JTBF assists hard working law students in obtaining externships or clerkships.
To apply for any of these programs, please submit the required materials or for further information contact the Program Director at programs@jtbf.org. If you are judge and would like to request a student from the program to work as an extern in your chambers, please complete the Judicial Request For Referral Form.
Program Information
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Program Description
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Who Should Apply
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JTBF matches law students with federal and state judges across the country. The program encourages judges to provide law students with assignments that will enhance their legal research, writing and analytical skills, such as developing effective outlining techniques, drafting of memoranda of law, and briefing of judges about case-related issues. Students work with their judge for a minimum of ten hours per week for one semester for school year externships and a minimum of 35 hours per week for eight weeks for summer externships. Click here for the full program description. |
Students seeking an externship for their 1L summer or 2L or 3L years |
(1) Statement of Interest;
(2) Resume;
(3) Law School Transcript (official or unofficial); and
(4) 2 References (optional, but recommended)
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Summer/Fall Externships
February 6, 2010
Spring Externships
October 15, 2010
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Share the Wealth Clerkship
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Judge Gerald Bruce Lee (E.D. Va.) and four other judges select 12 students to participate in a special round of interviewing for six fulltime clerkship positions. |
Rising 3rd year law students as well as law school graduates
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(1) Cover Letter;
(2) Resume;
(3) 3 Letters of Recommendation;
(4) Law School Transcript; and
(5) 10-15 page writing sample
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September 7, 2010
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