Externship Seminar (LAW-769-003)
Deborah Feinstein
Meets: 06:00 PM - 07:50 PM (M) - Warren - Room N102
Enrolled: 14 / Limit: 15
Notices
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Description
The supervised externship seminar is a two-credit class taken in conjunction with a field placement in a non-profit organization, government agency, court or private law firm handling pro bono matters exclusively. Over the course of the semester, we will examine your externship placement experience, identify, and reflect on any challenges, work together to develop solutions, and learn from that experience. The overarching goal of the class is to provide a space, every week, to reflect on your externship experience, and to critically examine what works for you (and what might not) in a professional legal environment. Together we will consider the practical and personal skills, and knowledge, that you will need to successfully transition from law student to lawyer. This class, unlike other law school classes, will not focus on substantive law, trial advocacy or other technical skills. Instead, together we will focus on your professional development, including your professional identity as a lawyer, legal ethics, duties and boundaries of zealous advocacy, and common issues that arise in a legal workplace. We will also discuss the importance of self-advocacy in the workplace, how to accomplish your personal career goals, and how to present yourself to others as you seek to achieve those goals. We will accomplish our class objectives through discussions, simulations, hypotheticals, student presentations, and presentations from guest speakers. Required written work includes a goals form, a self-assessment form, weekly reflective journal entries, and a final reflective paper. In addition, each student will make an in-class presentation related to a topic covered in this course or related to your externship.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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The syllabus below contains a list of the articles and other reading materials required for this class. All of the articles are available online on Westlaw or LexisNexis. Many of the required readings are from Learning from Practice (Leah Wortham, et al., Third Edition, 2016). You can purchase or rent the book, or you can choose to download individual chapters.
First Class Readings
Read chapters 1 and 2 in Learning from Practice
Syllabus
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