Registration Guide 2024-2025

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Experiential Learning & Professional Development Requirements

Guidelines for Completion

All students are subject to the Experiential Learning and Professional Development Requirements.

Prior to graduation, every student must satisfactorily complete:

1. Six credits of upper-level experiential learning courses in accord with ABA Standards 303 & 304,

2. Two continuing legal education seminars which are certified through the submission of proof of attendance to the Office of Academic Services.

Prior to graduation, every full-time student must additionally complete: 3. A minimum of 50 hours of practice-based learning completed through in any of the following ways: o First Year Summer Internship Program- Judicial placement, which are certified through the submission of a Professional Development Requirement Form to the Office of Academic Services; o 50 hours of legal work completed through the Law School Pro Bono Program, which are certified through the submission of a Professional Development Requirement Form to the Office of Academic Services; o Satisfactory completion of at least one semester of a Law School clinic, o Satisfactory completion of a Law School externship, or o 50 hours of legal work completed outside of Law School programs under the supervision of an attorney or judge, which are certified through the submission of a Professional Development Requirement Form to the Office of Academic Services. Part-time students in the Evening Division are not required to complete section 3 of the requirement, but are encouraged to complete it. Guidelines for completing Section 1: Experiential opportunities are essential in preparing to be ready to work with real clients solving real legal problems. Toward that end, students are required to complete six (6) credits of experiential courses in order to graduate. Experiential courses fall into three categories: (1) a law clinic that provides students with substantial lawyering experiences that involve advising or representing actual clients; (2) an externship that includes a field placement that provides students with a substantial lawyering experience that is reasonably similar to that of a lawyer advising or representing clients or engaging in other lawyering tasks, as well as a classroom component; and (3) a simulation course in which students are provided substantial experiences similar to those of lawyers advising or representing clients or engaging in other lawyering tasks in a set of facts and circumstances devised or adopted by faculty.

All experiential education courses (clinics, externships, and simulations) will conform with ABA Standards 303 and 304.

Guidelines for completing Section 2:

It is important for law students to develop an appreciation for the importance of continuing legal education

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