Curriculum
Concentration
Labor & Employment Law
—no total published
Three core courses, two skills courses, a three-credit externship and two electives. It publishes no total credit figure, and it does not appear in the Academic Rules alongside the other six, so confirm its status before you enroll.
Enrol by October 1 (January graduates) / February 1 (May graduates) · completion form November 1 (January graduates) / March 1 (May graduates)
Plan around these
Courses listed by a concentration but absent from the 2026-27 catalog may be on a multi-year rotation, renamed, or discontinued. Verify with Academic Services.
- Core, spring only: Employment Discrimination Law
- Listed but not running in 2026–27: One (1) of the courses from the following list: Employment Law, Employment Law: Lawyering Approach, Group 1 - Advanced Legal Writing Courses Advanced Legal Writing, Group 2 - Negotiation/Mediation Courses Mediation, Group 3 - Practice Courses Compliance Practice Seminar, E-Discovery Law, ERISA and Retirement Plans, Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation, Labor and Employment Arbitration, Externship in a Labor or Employment Law Placement
What it takes
- The three (3) required, core courses, as listed under the Concentration’s Courses section;
- At least two (2) Concentration skills courses, as listed under the Concentration’s Courses section;
- An externship in an approved, three (3) credit externship in some area of labor and employment law, or an exemption from the externship requirement, as granted by the Concentration Director(s) and/or the Administrative Director of Concentrations;
- At least two (2) Concentration elective courses, as listed in the Concentration’s Courses section;
- Periodically reviewing the student's progress in attaining the requisite grade point averages with one of the Concentration Faculty Director(s) and/or the Assistant Dean for Academic Services.
- Obtaining the Concentration Faculty Directors' approval of the student's plan for completing the Concentration's writing requirement.
Suffolk's requirements page · its course list · Academic Rules
Courses that count
28 listed, 13 running this year.
A. Core Courses
Naiara Souto
Katie Lev, Thomas Henry
B. Skills Courses
Darren Braham, Diana Chiang, Gabriel Teninbaum
Cara Libman, Martsyl Joseph, Richard Pizzano
Brian Kelly
Donald Cabell, Linda Giles, Michael Bolden
Christopher Dearborn
C. Externship
D. Electives
Erin Braatz, Renee Landers
Anthony Polito, Erika Isabella Scuderi, Meredith Conway
Tiffani Darden
Anne Landry
Marc Rodwin
Alexandra Peredo Carroll
Verified 2026-08-27. Confirm with Academic Services before you plan around it.