Application Deadlines

These are the application deadlines. Applications must be submitted no later than 11:59pm of the day on these dates unless otherwise specified.

List of Clinics, Externships and Experiential Learning Programs

Fall 2025

Thursday, February 27

  • Atlanta Semester in Practice (Civil Externship)
  • Civil Externships (Atlanta)

Wednesday, March 12

  • Appellate Litigation Clinic
  • Business Law Clinic
  • Capital Assistance Project
  • Civil Externships (Athens)
  • Community Health Law Partnership (HeLP)
  • Corporate Counsel Externships (full and part-time)
  • Criminal Defense Practicum I & II
  • DC Semester in Practice
  • First Amendment Clinic
  • Jane W. Wilson Family Justice Clinic
  • Land Conservation Clinic
  • Mediation Clinic
  • Practicum in Animal Welfare Skills (PAWS)
  • Veterans Legal Clinic
  • Wilbanks CEASE Clinic

Friday, March 28

  • Deadline for first offers to students
  • Students need not accept first offers until after this date

Monday, March 31

  • Deadline for student decisions on first offers

Monday, April 7

  • Final decisions on all waiting lists.

April 9 - 11

Points allocation for:

  • Mediation Practicum
  • Public Interest Practicum

Summer 2025

Wednesday, March 12*

  • Corporate Counsel Externship: school-arranged
  • Criminal Defense Practicum I & II (public defender externships)
  • Summer Externships: school-arranged
  • Veterans Legal Clinic
  • Wilbanks CEASE Clinic

*Applications may remain open after deadline if space is available

Open until filled:

  • Corporate Counsel Externships: student-arranged
  • Summer Externships: student-arranged (judicial, non-profit, government & prosecution)

Note: Proposals for full-time remote externships outside Athens, Atlanta or DC should be made prior to points allocation to Professor Heywood: jheywood@uga.edu

JD students enrolled in a clinic or externship course are eligible for registration under Georgia's student practice rule. See Student Handbook

Jessica L. Heywood