One of nine externships at the Quinnipiac University School of Law, the Corporate Counsel externship places you at area corporations and membership organizations where you’ll work in substantive areas ranging from:

• Intellectual property and licensing to products liability law
• Employment and disabilities to public utilities law
• Tax and securities to environmental law
• Franchising and leasing to zoning law

Your duties could be to: 

• Review and/or negotiate contracts and work with outside counsel to prepare corporate witnesses for deposition and trial
• Attend judicial and/or administrative hearings and participate in alternate dispute resolution proceedings
• Prepare materials for submission to regulators and help to design regulatory compliance programs
• Work with human resources personnel to develop employee handbooks and conduct sexual-harassment awareness and prevention programs
• Perform trademark searches, draft trademark licensing agreements and assist with trademark policing efforts
• Attend board or shareholders’ meetings and assist their supervisors with other internal and public presentations