The Externship Program is a class and runs concurrent to the academic semester. All applicants must have completed Critical Lawyering Skills and have their sponsoring firm or organization approved by ExPro.
In order to participate in the Externship Program, students must:
- Work under the direct supervision of a licensed attorney or an individual otherwise qualified to supervise, with at least five (5) years’ practice/industry experience;
- Be engaged in substantive legal (i.e., not administrative) work with all administrative tasks not exceeding 10% of extern workload;
- Have dedicated on-site work space and office equipment;
- Work at the office location, not remotely;
- Receive meaningful, consistent, and regularly scheduled feedback on assignments given; and
- Be consistently engaged in their externship concurrent to the entire 14-week (fall and spring) or 7-week (summer) semester.
Students cannot front-load or back-load extern hours. In other words, students must be consistently engaged at the externship site for the entire semester. Also, only those hours recorded during the academic semester count toward extern hours/units.
All extern students must register for LAW 706, the online Externship Workshop. No units are awarded for Law 706. However, this class is mandatory and required to receive externship credit.
For information on how to register and calculate units, click here.
Questions? Connect with us at expro@scu.edu