2024 Summer Field Placement Application

Your statement of interest is intended to demonstrate how a summer field placement will further your career goals, how a field placement fits into your overall law school academic plan, and how you intend to make a field placement possible on a practical level. Your statement must address all of the following:

• Where you intend to live this summer, including your housing arrangements and general financial situation and plans,
• What sort(s) of work you would be most interested in,
• Whether you have any other summer job prospects,
• What area or areas of law most interest you,
• What other coursework, if any, you plan to take over the summer,
• Where physically you would like to be after law school,
• What your housing and living options are for the summer, and
• What sort of work you would like to be doing after law school.
• If you are a rising 3L, please list any experiential courses you have taken.

This statement of interest will not be provided to your placements and is for internal use only.

Type your statement no more than 3 pages in length, and attach it using the field below.

Please attach the following files.

To Be Completed By All Applicants

In applying for the LSU Law Center Program, I, the undersigned, understand and agree to the following:

(1) My field placement may not compensate me in any way for my work.
(2) If I accept a field placement, either one created by the LSU Law Center Field Placement Program or one I have self-created, I may not subsequently decline that field placement.
(3) If I accept a field placement, either one created by the LSU Law Center Field Placement Program or one that I have self-created, I understand that I will be enrolled, for three academic credits, in the Law Center’s Summer Field Placement course for the Summer 2024 session.
(4) If I accept a field placement, I understand that I may not drop the Summer Field Placement course after its addition to my schedule without the express written approval of the Director of Field Placements and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
(5) If I accept a field placement, I understand that I am responsible for attending the weekly field placement seminar and completing all course requirements in accordance with the policies set forth in the LSU Law Center Catalog and in accordance with the Honor Code.
(6) If I accept a field placement, I understand that I am responsible for attending an ethics seminar prior to commencing my field placement.