2022-2023 Registration Guide

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Experiential Learning & Professional Development Requirements

Guidelines for Completion

Students entering Fall 2015 or later 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, and

3. A minimum of 50 hours of practice-based learning completed in any of the following ways:

o First Year Summer Externship Program- Judicial placement;

o 50 hours of legal work completed through the Pro Bono Program; or

o 50 hours of legal work completed under the supervision of an attorney. Students completing Sections 2 and 3 of this requirement must submit certification of completion to the Office of Academic Services.

Part-time students in the Evening Division are exempt from 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 (CLE) and become active members of the legal community. To promote law student professional development, the Law School requires every student to attend two continuing legal education seminars prior to graduation. Students are encouraged to attend member free programming delivered through the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations identified as “Suffolk PDR,” but may attend any program offered through other CLE providers that meet these guidelines. In order for a CLE seminar to qualify as satisfying Section 2, the program must: (1) have a minimum duration of 75 minutes; (2) provide professional education for licensed lawyers related to substantive law, practice and

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