About Externship
The College of Law’s Externship Program is a three-credit experiential course that has been specially designed to expose QU students to different models of legal skills related to specific areas of law, while allowing students to acquire greater insight into the process of lawyering, permitting students to develop a sense of professional development, and providing students with an opportunity to reflect on and learn from experiences in a supportive yet real-world environment.
The course provides a classroom component, during which students learn about professional skills related to the practice of law as well as an out-of-classroom component during which students work for academic credit and gain direct legal experience with practicing lawyers, judges or legal professionals in a supervised setting.
The out-of-classroom component requires the students to work for a minimum of 120 hours during 10 weeks of either the Fall or Spring semesters and requires the employers to assign real legal work to the students and provide real feedback on those assignments. Neither the students nor the employers are paid during this collaboration. Students work for free and earn experience and academic credit. Employers train for free and gain relationships with law students and can use the class as a form of direct recruitment for after graduation.
Program Objectives
Student Prerequisites
Credits & Rule Against Reimbursement
Grading
Maintaining Records
Finding/Securing a Placement
Repeating the Course
Program Requirements for Students
Program Requirements for Professionals