The statement of interest must include:

• Name of placement, or proposed placement.
• How the placement furthers the academic and professional goals of the student.
• A description of the work the student will be doing.
• If the placement has been secured, the name, phone number, and e-mail address of the supervisor or other appropriate contact, and the student's intended work schedule.
• If the placement has not been secured at the time of application, what steps the student will take to secure the placement.

Permission to enroll in this class is granted exclusively by Professor Sankaran during the weeks prior to the semester in which the externship will take place. Students must have their placements finalized no later than one week prior to the first day of the semester.

It should be in narrative form and must be uploaded to the student's drop box on CTools every two weeks. These biweekly reports should include:

• A description of the student's daily work, including the nature of the projects worked on and the student's role in the projects and special assignments.
• A specific description of the training and supervision the student is receiving in connection with each project.
• Contemporaneous reflections on the manner in which the work relates to the educational goals for the externship.
• The manner in which the externship has exposed the student to issues concerning professional responsibility and the role of attorneys.
• How the externship has contributed to the student's development of knowledge in particular substantive areas and to the student's professional growth.

These reports should be a minimum of three full pages (Arial or Times New Roman, or similar sized font, set to 12 point) if double spaced.

Generally, the final report should total 7 - 10 pages double spaced (Arial or Times New Roman, or similar sized font, set to 12 point). Although it may naturally include some repetition with portions of the student's contemporaneous journals, it should be a report that stands on its own and provides an end-of-term retrospective summary of the student's externship experiences and their educational significance. The report should include:

• A description of the specific projects the student worked on and the student's role in each project.
• The quality and method of supervision provided.
• The impact the externship had, if any, on future career plans.
• An overall evaluation of the externship.

Most important, the report should specifically focus on the student's personal reflections on what he or she learned from the externship, and the significance of the experience toward the student's intellectual and professional development and objectives.

This evaluation should detail the work the student has done and the supervisor's evaluation of their work during the time period covered.

An electronic form for this evaluation is available online for convenience. This form is best viewed and used in Internet Explorer.

Final Evaluation