{"id":5588,"date":"2015-09-01T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?page_id=5588"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:55:13","slug":"courts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/student-life\/boston-legal-landscape\/courts\/","title":{"rendered":"State &#038; Federal Courts Located in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Participate in court-based clinics or work for judges.<\/h3>\n<p>As a BU Law student, you will find many opportunities to participate in court-based clinics. After graduation, BU Law students have worked for judges in public service fellowships and judicial clerkships. And a number of BU Law alumni preside over courts in Massachusetts at the local, state, and federal level. Courts located in Boston include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/boston-immigration-court\">Boston Immigration Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/court-info\/trial-court\/bmc\/\">Boston Municipal Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/court-info\/appealscourt\/\">Massachusetts Appeals Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/court-info\/trial-court\/hc\/\">Massachusetts Housing Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/court-info\/trial-court\/lc\/\">Massachusetts Land Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/court-info\/trial-court\/pfc\/\">Massachusetts Probate and Family Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/court-info\/sjc\/\">Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/locations\/boston-juvenile-court\">Suffolk County Juvenile Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/court-info\/courthouses\/salem-suffolk\/suffolk-probate-family-court-generic.html\">Suffolk County Probate and Family Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/court-info\/courthouses\/salem-suffolk\/suffolk-superior-court-generic.html\">Suffolk County Superior Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mad.uscourts.gov\/\">U.S. District Court for District of Massachusetts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mab.uscourts.gov\/mab\/\">U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Massachusetts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca1.uscourts.gov\/\">U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/boston-immigration-court\">U.S. Department of Justice Immigration Court<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participate in court-based clinics or work for judges. As a BU Law student, you will find many opportunities to participate in court-based clinics. After graduation, BU Law students have worked for judges in public service fellowships and judicial clerkships. And a number of BU Law alumni preside over courts in Massachusetts at the local, state, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"parent":951,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119081,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5588\/revisions\/119081"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}