Our Interview With The Experts At The Touro Law School

Juris Education interviewed Margarett M. Williams, Esq., Director of Employer Relations at Touro Law School, for an exclusive look at what sets the school's Program apart.‍

How do the externship opportunities at the Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center's Externships help students gain practical legal experience before graduation, and what types of placements are available?

Touro Law Center’s Externship Program provides students with the opportunity to engage directly in the practice of law while earning academic credit. Through supervised, hands‑on work, externships allow students to develop core lawyering skills, explore specific practice areas, and observe how attorneys, courts, government agencies, and public interest organizations operate in real‑world settings.

Externship placements are available in a wide range of environments, including private law firms, courts, government offices, and nonprofit or public interest organizations. Students are encouraged to view an externship as an intentional professional development experience aligned with their long‑term goals and interests.    Many law schools restrict their placements to government or public interest.   Additionally, most law schools only offer externships during the fall and spring semesters.   Touro Law offers externships during the fall, spring and summer semesters.

What skills do students develop through the externship program that make them more competitive for law firm, public interest, government, or in-house legal careers after law school?‍

Students choose placements based on the skills they wish to develop, the practice areas they wish to explore and the story they want their resumes to tell.   Students receive individual counseling on different options that may appeal to them.

‍For prospective law students evaluating externship programs, what makes the Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center's Externships externship experience unique, and how does it prepare students for the realities of legal practice?

Though students are not required to participate in the externship program to obtain their experiential learning credits, the majority of students choose to participate because they know that they will only be provided with substantive legal work that an attorney performs.  More importantly, they receive mentoring and constructive feedback on their work.‍

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