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*Important Registration Information* Students seeking fieldwork credit must submit an Application for Fieldwork Registration here *Summer 2008 Externs MUST Submit Fieldwork Evaluations* |
Among the many advantages of studying law in Washington, D.C., is the opportunity to integrate practical experience with the theory of the classroom. Here, students find innumerable opportunities to gain valuable on-the-job experience by participating in our Supervised Externship Program.
This program enables students to explore various career options and other facets of becoming a lawyer, providing direction and insight for their postgraduate legal careers. The fieldwork experience is enhanced by the close supervision they receive from our faculty members by enrolling in one of a wide variety of externship seminars.
Externship students are free to choose their own fieldwork placement within any:
- federal, state or local government agency,
- federal, state, or administrative court/tribunal
- not-for-profit organization, or,
- law firm, only if they are assigned exclusively to pro bono projects
Students must be supervised by an attorney and must be engaged in substantive legal work. The sponsoring organization must agree to offer students the educational experience and work assignments they would receive as a beginning lawyer at that organization.
Externship students must be supervised by a faculty member or must enroll in an Externship Seminar. A broad cross-section of our full-time faculty, supplemented with adjunct faculty who are leading practitioners in their respective fields, teach the externship seminars. These seminars provide the forum for analysis of the fieldwork experiences through class discussion, reflective writing, and small group meetings.
