Alyssa Smith
Associate Director of Career & Professional Development and Judicial Clerkships
a.smith@sc.edu
803-777-6917
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Overview
Judicial Scholars is a paid, full-time, 9-week judicial internship for rising second-year law students enrolled at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law. Through this immersive program, students gain hands-on experience working alongside South Carolina justices, judges, law clerks, and staff attorneys within the state judiciary.
The Judicial Scholars intern for 3 weeks each at the Supreme Court of South Carolina, the South Carolina Court of Appeals, and the South Carolina Circuit Court. This rotation-based format provides scholars with a comprehensive view of the judicial system at every level.
Application Process
- Resume (without GPA or class rank) and
- Personal Statement (one page sharing the ways in which your experiences, achievements and background inform the perspective you will bring to the Judicial Scholars Program, and how the program will impact your long-term career goals)
- Applications will be collected by Career & Professional Development and reviewed by a committee of Law School faculty.
- Applications must be submitted through the Symplicity job posting, which will be posted in the winter and due in February. No late entries will be accepted.
“My experience with the Judicial Scholars program greatly affirmed my career goal
of pursuing a judicial clerkship. I began the program with the hopes of narrowing
down which level of judge I wanted to pursue. With all of my experience thus far,
I have come to enjoy trial-level courts. This led me to want to pursue a federal district
and/or state circuit-level court.”
- Jay
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