2022-2023 Registration Guide

AREAS OF FOCUS

Federal Courts

Privacy Law

Federal Indian Law

Race, Gender and Law

First Amendment: Media Law

Clinics

Health Law Clinic

Juvenile Defenders Clinic

Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Clinic

Suffolk Defenders Program

Innocence Clinic Summer Programs and Externships

Domestic Externships

International Externships

Suffolk offers multiple opportunities to participate in summer programs and externships, both in the United States and abroad, that provide valuable experience in this area. For further information on U.S.- based summer externships, students should contact Mary Sawicki. For information on internationally- focused summer externships, students should contact Amy Van Zyl-Chavarro. In addition, professors who teach civil rights and human rights courses, or who teach international law, can be another great resource for advice with respect to such programs. There are also a number of moot court teams that participate in constitutional law and international law problems that provide extracurricular opportunities to gain experience in this area.

Corporate Finance and Business Anyone who expects to work as a lawyer, whether in a law firm or in-house, representing for-profit or non-profit business organizations, should have a grounding in the core business courses: Business Entity Fundamentals; Basic Federal Income Tax; Taxation of Business Entities; and Accounting for Lawyers. This kind of work is divided in to five sub-categories and include several suggested courses that may be helpful for each of them. Large corporations . Law firm and in-house lawyers practicing corporate and finance law deal in almost every kind of business issue, from drafting and reviewing purchase and supply contracts, to structuring, negotiating, and drafting documents in mergers and acquisitions, to advising corporate directors on governance issues, to doing securities offerings, or organizing hedge funds. Helpful courses include: Commercial Paper, Secured Transactions; Corporate Finance; Securities Regulation; Negotiation; Antitrust. Financial Institutions . Lawyers for financial institutions may find themselves engaged in the regulation of the business, or in the documentation, administration, or workout of loans. Helpful courses include: Bankruptcy; Commercial Paper; Secured Transactions; Commercial Lending/Finance Practicum; Banking Law; Investment Management Regulation; Private Placements/Venture Capital.

Emerging and Small Businesses . A business law practice may be geared to smaller or family-owned businesses, or start-up businesses, particularly those requiring venture financing. These businesses are

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