1. Substantial Lawyering Experience and Designated Externship Site Supervisor. An Externship should provide a student substantial lawyering experience that is reasonably similar to the experience of a la​wyer advising or representing a client or engaging in other lawyering tasks in a setting outside a law clinic under the supervision of a licensed attorney or an individual otherwise qualified to supervise.
2. Affiliation Agreement. An Externship requires an Affiliation Agreeme​nt to be entered into between the Externship Program and the Externship Site that describes both:
1. the substantial lawyering experience and opportunities for performance, feedback, and self-evaluation; and
2. the respective roles of faculty and​ the Externship Site supervisor in supervising the student and in assuring the educational quality of the experience for the student, including a clearly articulated method of evaluating the student’s academic performance. 

Examples of the Affiliation Agreement can be found at the bottom of this webpage.

1. Externship Site Supervisor Ov​​ersight. An Externship must include a method for selecting, training, evaluating and communicating with Externship Site supervisors, including regular contact between the faculty and Externs​hip Site supervi​sors through in-person visits or other methods of communication that will assure the quality of the student educational experience. 
2. Student Evaluation. An Externship must include an evaluation of each student’s educational achievement by the Externship Program.
3. Sufficient Control over Student Experience. An Externship must include sufficient control of the student experience to ensure that the requirements of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools are met.  

Current and potential Externship Sites should review the Externship Manual available on this website which will answer almost all of your questions and provide further detail. If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact the Externship Director at lawexternships@depaul.edu. 

To Become a New Externship Site

1.     To become an approved Externship Site, the potential Externship Site must first complete an Externship Site Application applying to be an Externship Site. The Externship Site Application is automatically routed to the Externship Director upon submission. The potential Externship Site must meet the minimum requirements for approval which are available in the 'Externship Site, Minimum Requirements' section of the Externship Manual.

ii)     After the Externship Director receives the Externship Site Application, the Externship Director will contact the potential Externship Site for a follow-up conference call or in-person meeting to discuss the Externship Site Application and ask and answer any additional questions.

iii)   After the Externship Director completes the follow-up, the Externship Director will either approve or reject the application to be an Externship Site and will communicate this decision to the potential Externship Site.

iv)   If the potential Externship Site is approved, the Externship Program will send the now-approved Externship Site an Affiliation Agreement for execution.

v)     After the Externship Site has executed the Affiliation Agreement, the Externship Site will then be listed as an approved Externship Site for students. Accordingly, students who have been hired by the Externship Site and meet the Academic Minimum Requirements can apply to the Externship Program. For further information, please see the 'Academic Minimum Requirements' section of the Externship Manual.

To Post a New Externship Position

The post a new Externship position, the Externship Site must email the Externship Department at lawexternships@depaul.edu.