LOYOLA J.D. EXTERN PROGRAM
The Loyola Externship Program is designed to provide you with practical experience under the supervision of a judge or a lawyer and a supervising attorney from the School of Law. It is an opportunity to improve skills, incorporate the values of the profession and to develop working habits in a work environment that is also an educational environment. Participating attorneys and judges are expected to utilize externs in ways which further the goals of the program.
ELIGIBILITY AND TIME REQUIREMENTS
- Second year students are eligible to receive credit only for participation as judicial externs (any semester after completion of the first year). Students who wish to participate in all other approved externships must have completed a minimum of 51 credit hours and be eligible for a student license under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 711.
- You are expected to work at the extern site a minimum of 110 hours for two credits and 165 hours for three credits in addition to the other requirements of this course.
- You cannot receive credit for work performed as an extern if you are also paid for that work.
- You may receive 2 or 3 hours extern credit per semester, and a total of 6 hours of credit during your law school career.
APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION PROCESS:
1. STEP ONE - APPLYING TO EXTERNSHIP SITES
The School of Law makes every effort to assist students in obtaining appropriate externships.
- Students can apply independently to the various approved externship sites using the following list of approved sites. Please keep in mind that the non-judicial sites require you to have 51 credit hours.
- Students may also submit their resumes and transcripts during the resume collection period described below and the Law School will distribute the materials to extern sites. However, there are several externship sites that require an independent application that are not part of the resume collect process (see Appendix A of Symplicity Instruction Sheet). There are two resume collection periods for students to apply for externships.
- In the Fall semester, resumes will be collected at the end of September and mailed to the sites in early October for Spring semester externships.
- In the Spring semester, resumes will be collected in mid-February and mailed to the sites by the end of February for Summer and Fall semester externships.
- Click here to view a powerpoint presentation with more information. The resume collection process takes place on the Symplicity system. Please review the Symplicity Instruction Sheet in order to apply correctly.
- In the Fall semester, resumes will be collected at the end of September and mailed to the sites in early October for Spring semester externships.
- All Students must complete an Honor Statement and return it to Dean Faught.
- After you have been accepted at an approved extern site, you must apply to the Extern Program to receive credit. In order to do this, you must submit an Externship Application Form two weeks before the semester or summer term begins. See #2 below for the Application form.
2. STEP TWO - THE APPLICATION
Applications are due to Dean Faught in Room 1477 no later than two weeks before the beginning of the semester. If the application is approved, the Office of the Registrar will inform you by e-mail that you are approved to register for the externship course through LOCUS.
Link to: Spring 2010 Externship Application Form (PDF)
3. STEP THREE - REGISTRATION
Upon receipt of the e-mail approval from the Office of the Registrar, it is the student's responsibility to register for the extern course on LOCUS. Students who wish to drop the course after submission of the approval form are responsible for withdrawing from the course.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1. Submit a signed Supervisor's Agreement that includes a statement of your goals for the externship at the first scheduled extern class.
2. Submit Bi-Weekly Evaluation Forms completed and signed by your on-site supervising attorney.
3. Attend class regularly according to the Course Syllabus (see below).
4. WRITING REQUIREMENT: You will be required to respond to 10 weekly blog questions.
5. ORAL PRESENTATION: Each student will be assigned a class period and a periodical from which they will present a relevant legal article for class discussion. At the second class period, you will receive the assignment. The article workshops will take place during the last three class periods of the semester.
6. Each extern must take a minimum of ten hours of their required extern hours to observe one or more of the follow: a trial, the component parts of a trial, contested motions, depositions, arbitration hearings, administrative hearings, or settlement conferences. The Court Observation Form should be completed and submitted by the last day of the semester before the exam period begins.
7. The supervising attorney at your externship office should complete the Supervisor's Final Evaluation and send it to Dean Faught before the exam period begins.
8. Complete the Program/Experience Evaluation and submit it to Dean Faught before the exam period begins.
9. Satisfactorily complete your assigned extern duties. Breach of your professional responsibility toward your duties may be considered grounds to withhold credit and submit the grade of "WF."
Link to: COURSE SYLLABI - coming soon
