The law school’s externships take advantage of Connecticut’s liberal student-practice rule and Quinnipiac’s abundant contacts in the legal community to allow second- and third-year students to gain real-world lawyering experience.

Before your externship semester begins, you’ll work with faculty to identify which field placement is best suited to your background and interests. Accommodating your preference will likely be simple, since more than 300 lawyers, judges and mediators participate in our program as mentors who willingly share their wisdom with Quinnipiac students.

You could earn between 3 and 6 credits spending between 10 and 22 hours per week at their placement sites. You’ll communicate and collaborate with faculty and mentors throughout the externship, both informally and in structured assessment conferences.

Biweekly seminar meetings allow you to share your experiences with classmates and teachers and to develop thoughtful critiques of the systems within which you now work.

Faculty members review student journal entries and work and are available outside of class to discuss individual concerns.

Finally, an on-site meeting during the latter part of the semester brings student, faculty supervisor and field supervisor together again.