Internships and Externships
The Criminal Law Practice Center offers a variety of semester long legal externships to provide students with real-world experience while attending law school.
Students may enroll in the Prosecutor/Public Defender
Externship or in the Project Innocence Externship. Most students
are placed in either the Office of the Orange County District Attorney or the Office of the Orange County Public Defender,
but placements in other counties are also possible. Externs work
an average of hours 12-15 hours per week, and meet for class
once a week, with the externship director. Other externship
opportunities, including judicial externships and special externships for part-time students, are also available. Externs who have already taken evidence are eligible to apply for a student practice
certificate from the California Bar, and many externs have had
the opportunity to represent clients in the courtroom, under the direction of their externship supervisor.
