It’s internship season for those pursuing careers in the legal field. At the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, 101 law school, graduate, and undergraduate students have joined as interns. They will gain first-hand experience in public service as well as the criminal justice system through their summer internships.
“I am excited to welcome this elite group of students to our team. Internships are vital to career development and boosting employability after graduation,” District Attorney Raymond Tierney said in a news release about the summer internship program.
“This internship class will get hands-on experience working alongside prosecutors, investigators, and other staff, assisting with active investigations, preparing misdemeanor and felony cases for hearings and trials, and participating in community outreach,” he said.
This summer’s interns are beginning the program at a time when the DA’s office is pressing additional charges against the suspect in the Long Island serial killings. There was no word yet as to whether interns would have opportunity to work alongside experts on that case.
Members of this year’s internship class hail from 16 law schools and 36 universities and colleges from across the nation. While many attend school in New York, others have traveled from as far away as Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and the Philippines. Among the interns, they speak 16 different languages, in addition to English, including American Sign Language, Ancient Greek, Farsi, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Korean, Latin, Mandarin, Punjabi, Sindhi, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu and Vietnamese.
Interns will have the opportunity to observe arraignments in Suffolk County First District Court as well as tour portions of the Suffolk Police Department, the Suffolk Crime Laboratory, Suffolk Correctional Facilities, the Suffolk Medical Examiner and the U.S. Federal District Court.
This year’s interns attend schools in New York that include the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, St. John’s University School of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, Brooklyn Law School, SUNY Buffalo School of Law, Cornell Law School, SUNY Binghamton, Long Island University, SUNY Farmingdale State College, Molloy University, New York Institute of Technology, St. Joseph’s University, Cornell University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Marist College and SUNY Cortland.
Schools from out-of-state include Penn State Law, Delaware Law at Widener University, Pepperdine University, The Ohio State University, University of Maryland, Fordham University, The University of Virginia, Albany Law School, Clemson University, High Point University, University of Colorado Boulder, George Washington University Law School, The Catholic University of America, The University of Chicago, The University of the South, Penn State University, Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University, Emory University, William & Mary, University of Pennsylvania, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hartwick College, University of Massachusetts School of Law, Rider University, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, The University of Alabama, New England Law Boston, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Loyola University, Fairfield University, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Shepard Broad College of Law at Nova Southeastern University.
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