Assistant Clinical Professor amp Director of Externships

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Assistant Clinical Professor & Director of Externships

The Program will supplement skills training for offering second- and third-year students to earn academic credit while performing uncompensated substantive legal work on-site at approved placements. The Program will provide students with experiential, skills-centered legal training and reflective learning opportunities which complement their academic legal education. It will allow students to use analytical skills, doctrinal knowledge (including ethics), and practical skills (including strategy and tactics) in practice. Will provide opportunities for students to develop such lawyering skills as interviewing, counseling, negotiating, investigating, research and writing, and advocacy. Will be (along with three in-house Clinics) a critical part of the School’s compliance with the American Bar Association’s Standards 303(b)(1) and (2), which require law schools to provide substantial opportunities for law clinics or field placements, as well as significant opportunities to participate in pro-bono legal activities.
Duties: Oversees all aspects of Externship Program operations and works with all of the Program’s stakeholders—students, placement organizations and field supervisors, law school administrators and deans, law school faculty committees that retain control over educational aspects of the Externship Program, and the ABA representatives who inspect and regulate ABA accredited law schools. At the Law School level these responsibilities include: encouraging student interest in externships, counseling students and monitoring their progress, working with field supervisors to promote and strengthen the Externship Program, and interacting with the ABA auditors during regular inspections. Outside of the Law School, will be expected to collaborate with existing field supervisors to conduct site visits and maintain relationships with students’ supervising attorneys at current placements (as well as expand the list of appropriate placements); participate in local and national Externship/Clinical listservs, meetings and conferences; and be active in professional groups that relate to Campbell’s Externship Program. Will be member of the law school clinical faculty and must have excellent organizational and communication skills to interact effectively with members of the legal community, judges and court personnel, law school faculty, administration, and students.
Develop and maintain a broad range of placement sites and opportunities so that Campbell students can choose from numerous legal specialties, sponsoring entities, and various types of practice/skills experiences. Monitor, regularly visit, and evaluate placement sites, and offer training to field supervisors to ensure that each extern will receive appropriate and well-defined assignments and constructive feedback maximizing the educational benefit of the externship. Recruit and advise students, assisting each in choosing and obtaining externship positions that match each student’s area of interest, and counsel students about ways of approaching an externship to maximize the benefit of the experience. Maintain an informative Blackboard site and attractive program materials that describe the Externship Program, and devise additional ways to communicate, so that all current law students and all law school applicants are aware of the Externship Program’s availability and its objectives, requirements, and benefits. Ensure that accurate and complete records of student participation are maintained. Create and document systems and procedures that ensure compliance with the American Bar Association’s comprehensive and detailed Standard 305 (which governs education outside the classroom). Partner with the Career Services Office to encourage students to build their resumes to include practical legal experience and to form professional networks that will enhance their ability to find permanent employment following graduation. Regularly attend local and state bench and bar association events and functions in order to maximize contacts with attorneys at existing and potential placement sites. Continually monitor, evaluate, and assess the Externship Program to insure the Program provides the best possible experience for the students and furthers the School’s program of legal education.

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