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By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
February 26, 2014

An American Bar Association panel has recommended that the organization drop its prohibition against law students receiving both academic credit and money for internships and externships. The ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar still must approve the idea, but it would represent a significant departure from existing rules that forbid students from receiving monetary payment for field placements. The pay-for-field-placement rule is intended to open more opportunities within the private sector, said committee chair Jeff Lewis, a professor at Saint Louis University School of Law.

“Law schools won't place students in the private sector because those employers are required under federal law to pay,” Lewis said. “That's what everybody seems to believe, and they weren't willing to risk violating the law. It cuts off large swathes off the world for student field placements.”

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