A legal externship is a monitored work experience where the student establishes intentional learning goals and reflects actively on what is learned throughout their experience. With more than 450 placements a year, the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law’s Legal Externship Program is an effective and comprehensive bridge to take students from law student to lawyer.
To register for a Summer 2012 externship please click here for a checklist and instructions.
The Legal Externship Program is excited to announce changes to the program, beginning Spring 2012! While the Legal Externship Program has always featured placements with corporate in-house counsel, private firms, government and non-profit agencies, as well as with judges at all levels, our new approach organizes these placements into clearly defined “programs.” Beginning in the Spring 2012 semester, students will enroll in legal externships in one of several specific programs within the Legal Externship Program, each of which will be accompanied by a for-credit externship course.
The Legal Externship Program now includes the following programs:
- Child Advocacy Externship Program
- Corporate Apprenticeship Program
- Corporate Externship Program
- Criminal Prosecution Externship Program
- Criminal Defense Externship Program
- Environmental/Natural Resources Law Externship Program
- Government Agency Externship Program
- Judicial Externship Program
- Nonprofit Externship Program
- Private Firm Externship Program
For additional information regarding each of these programs, please click on the links to the right.
Students enrolled in each of these programs will take an accompanying, for-credit seminar that will address topics specific to each practice area. These seminars are taught by professors who are experienced attorneys and will be 1 or 3 credit courses. (Most courses will be 1 credit.) Students will register for these courses in the same way they register for all other Denver Law courses. Students enrolled in any of the programs of the Legal Externship Program must enroll in the course that is part of the program in addition to the externship credits.
