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Summer Fellowships

A unique opportunity to experience the law, explore career options, build relationships, and help fund your legal education. Real experience, a guaranteed position, and a paycheck - what a great way to spend the summer after your first year of law school!

Each spring USC Law's Admissions Office awards top admitted applicants our Summer Fellowships, which provide a guaranteed paid position during the summer following the first year of law school.

The Fellowship is offered in partnership with prestigious law firms, businesses, and public-interest organizations. Fellows spend half the summer at a law firm and half at a business - learning about legal transactions from both sides - or spend the whole summer at a public-interest organization. When they return to their second year of law school, Fellows bring solid work experience to guide the next steps in their education.

Law Firms

  • Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger
  • Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp
  • Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
  • Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood

Businesses and Public Interest Organizations

  • Disney Studios
  • Majestic Realty
  • Pinkberry, Inc.
  • Public Counsel
  • USC Office of the General Counsel
  • Warner Brothers Studios

NEWS & EVENTS

A Firm-Nonprofit Partnership on Vet Suit

Attorneys discuss collaboration on pro bono case more

Summer Externships at the Los Angeles Superior Court

John L. Segal '87 outlines how to get involved more

Paying it Forward

3Ls offer experiences, advice to 1Ls, 2Ls’ summer job search more