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Externships: Student’s Final Report

For your final class assignment, you are required to write a short final report which will serve as an evaluation of the Externship. You should use the reflections in your Weekly Reports to help you in preparing this final report. Give consideration to the positive and negative aspects of each category below. Also, be sure to discuss ways you believe the experience could have been made better. Please be sure to reflect on each topic below. Your responses will not be shared with your placement.

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Name*

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Email address*

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Year in Law School:*

(If you are a summer extern, please select your upcoming year in school)

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Externship Placement*

(name of your placement)

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Term & Year

(e.g., Fall 2025)

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The primary area(s) of law in which I worked/accepted assignments are:*

(please be specific - e.g., Business Law - employment, employee benefits)

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On-Site Mentor Supervision

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How often did you meet with your supervisor?*

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Describe the process the supervisor developed for giving you assignments and following up on assignments.*

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What type of feedback did you receive? What was effective? What was ineffective and how could it have been improved?*

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Describe the characteristics of your supervisor, giving some specific examples. Reflect both on the positive and negative experiences you had with your supervisor, and describe what made the experience positive or negative.*

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Experience:

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Were your goals for the Externship met? Be specific about why and why not.*

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Were the projcts challenging, was there variety, and were the projects manageable?*

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Describe your relationships with other staff, including attorneys in the office.*

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Describe your relationships with clients and court or agency staff, or corporate personnel.*

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Describe your physical space in the office - did you have enough space in which to work, did you have a private office, etc.*

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Give specific examples of major advantages and disadvantages of an Externship in this placement.*

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Is this a placement that you would recommend to other students? Give some examples of why or why not.*

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Do you have any suggestions for the placement or the supervisor that you would like us to share with the placement? The goal in offering this feedback is to allow us to help to improve the experience for future externs.*

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Professional Development

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Please discuss how you have developed your professional identity during your externship. Provide specific examples of opportunities provided to you by your On-Site Mentor or other colleagues.*

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Reflection is crucial for professional growth. Please detail one specific instance during your externship where a moment of self-reflection—following a success, challenge, or failure—led to a tangible, demonstrable change in your approach, process, or legal analysis on a subsequent assignment. Include the following: A description of the specific incident or behavior that prompted the reflection, what you realized about your performance/knowledge/or professional assumptions, the action you took to apply this new learning, and how it improved the outcome of the subsequent task.*

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