Legal Externship

3 units

Student must seek approval to register for the course and set up an externship 6-8 weeks prior to the start of the term. After completion of this course, students will have gained practical legal skills, including application of legal research and writing skills and substantive law to actual legal work. In doing so, students will: (1) Apply doctrine, theory, skills, and legal ethics to their field placements; (2) Perform practical professional skills in a real-world legal environment under the supervision of lawyers or other professionals; and (3) Evaluate their accomplishment of the goals and skills learned during the field placement. The course requires 135 hours total. 120 are earned in the placement, while the remaining 15 are earned through meetings with an advisor, time spent setting up the externship, and complying with the record-keeping, such as time logs, weekly journal entries and a 5-page capstone paper at the end of the term.