The Field Placement Program offers significant academic benefits not otherwise available in the classroom setting in the prescribed curriculum to students who have successfully completed prerequisites to assure the quality of the student educational experience in the field placement program.
- Eligible students are provided field experience by being placed in an outside supportive environment to learn lawyering skills.
- Site Supervisors create situations specifically designed to maximize learning, to develop new skills and to encourage creativity.
Field Placement Student Learning Objectives
- The Field Placement Program provides our law students opportunities to observe, experience, understand, and appreciate basic and advanced lawyering skills in supportive, real-world settings. The program assists students in their choice of career paths by providing an opportunity for them to work in the specific environment in which they are interested, enabling them to gain unique and informed knowledge of the practice of law while enhancing their overall professional development.
- Through work, students will gain an understanding of their ethical responsibilities as future officers of the court.
- Students in the Field Placement program will have unique access points to critically question and think about their own lawyering skills and abilities in terms of their roles as law students whose future careers demand and depend on life-long learning.
