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Advanced Externship
The Advanced Externship is for students who have completed an externship course and
wish to take another externship of the same type. For example, a judicial externship
student seeking to complete a second semester with a judge would take the Advanced
Externship course. If a student has completed a Judicial Externship and now seeks
to extern with an attorney, they must take the appropriate Attorney Externship course.
The Advanced Externship does not have a classroom component but all the other requirements
still apply including journal assignments, timekeeping, and individual meetings with
the instructor.
You must have successfully completed a prior externship course to be eligible for
an Advanced Externship.
The second externship can be with the same field placement as the first, or it can
be a new placement of the same type (attorney or judicial)
An Advanced Externship is 3 credits, which includes 140 hours of work in the field
placement over the course of the semester. Students must work at least 10 weeks during
the academic year.
There is NO weekly seminar that is required as part of the Advanced Externship. You
will have weekly writing assignments and multiple in-person meetings with the professor.
Because there is no seminar component, an Advanced Externship does NOT fulfill your
experiential learning graduation requirement.
No. No externship course may be repeated, including Advanced Externships.
Students may take up to 9 total externship credits.
Students cannot do more than 2 externships at the same placement.
Placements may be paid or unpaid. Paid externships are subject to a separate approval process.
You may extern for a current or former employer if you submit an Educational Plan
and the Director of Externships approves the placement as a substantively new learning
experience.
The work must be substantive legal work, diverse in nature, and must include opportunities
for writing and observation. Students must produce at least 10 cumulative pages of
original written work product in the placement.
Field placements may be conducted at both public and private sector legal offices,
and can include policy or legislative work.
At least one of the field placement supervisors must be an attorney with at least
3 years of experience. In the case of JD Advantage placements, like legal compliance,
the supervisor needs to have completed law school and have three years of relevant
legal experience.
Externships at an office where you have a close relative working are presumptively
inappropriate.
Externships may be fully in-person, fully remote, or a hybrid of in-person and remote
work
Remote placements require a structured schedule with regular work hours that overlap
with the supervisor’s work schedule. Students may not complete remote externship hours
while they are in class or working at another job.
Externships must be submitted for approval on UB Law Connect.
Paid externships are subject to a separate approval process and must be submitted
for approval at least 3 weeks before classes begin.
Unpaid externships must be submitted for approval at least 1 week before classes begin.
