Educational Objectives
The overarching goal of the Legal Internship Program is to provide opportunities for students to engage in critical reflection about the legal profession, their legal career, and their priorities and values as lawyers and individuals through supervised field experiences and externship seminars. Specific goals include:
- Developing in students the art of lawyering, including such skills as research, writing, legal analysis, client interviewing, communication, negotiation and advocacy.
- Providing opportunities to integrate substantive learning with the practice of law.
- Promoting the ethical practice of law by sensitizing students to issues of professional responsibility.
- Helping students develop confidence in practical lawyering situations.
- Increasing the students’ understanding of their own individual strengths and weaknesses as lawyers.
- Exploring and understanding workplace issues such as time management, workplace culture, teamwork, giving and receiving feedback, and achieving balance in one’s life.
- Promoting self directed and life long learning.