Corporate Externship Field Placement

All students must read the Rules for Supervised Field Placements before registering.

In this course, each student is placed in a company's legal department to experience the work of in-house counsel. The student may take the course for 1-3 credits with 50 hours per credit to be completed during the semester. Substantive projects are assigned by the company and may include corporate policies, codes of conduct, employment law, vendor and supplier agreements, SEC filings and documents, international and comparative law, finance, lease review, and intellectual property.  Each student will also experience in-house practice through a variety of opportunities such as joining meetings, attending company events, informational meetings with attorneys and other executives, and other ways to observe the flow of work and life in the corporate world. Students must complete a number of assignments, such as weekly journals and a final reflection paper, and they must attend several meetings with the instructor during the semester.

For more information, see the Corporate Externship website. 

Students must do the following:

• Register for the course as you register for all other classes. If you would like to be placed in an externship position, register for Section 001. Because corporate placements are limited and there is often high demand from students, all students are only authorized to register for Section 001 for one semester, unless they receive prior authorization from the faculty supervisor.  If you have arranged for your own corporate externship, you must seek approval to register from your faculty supervisor (Kiri Somermeyer) and following pre-approval, you may register for Section 002 using the form system linked below.
• By registering for Section 001 and submitting a resume to Kiri Somermeyer, you are committing to accept any corporate externship placement that is assigned to you.
• While the Corporate Institute will review student preferences for certain placements, there are no guarantees that requests will be granted. The companies participating in the Corporate Externship Program vary from semester to semester, and there is no guarantee that you will get one of your top choices.

The registration form for Section 002 is at this link: Topical Field Placement Form.