- EXTERNSHIPS
"While our office has engaged externs from many area law schools, some of our most memorable have hailed from Valparaiso Law. Your extern program provides the necessary support to enable your students to excel. We are very pleased with the way your program is managed."
John Gountanis
Assistant Chief Counsel and Externship Coordinator
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago IL
For more than two decades, Valparaiso University School of Law has offered externships in legal placements from New York to California for academic credit. There are currently more than 85 discrete offerings including local prosecutors, state and federal judges, the Department of Homeland Security and many government agencies. Students interested in pursuing an externship should contact Lisa Cannon, Director of Experiential Education, at Lisa.Cannon@valpo.edu or by phone at 219-465-7816.
EXTERN FORMS
- Externship Registration
- Time Log
- Field Supervisor (Judicial) Mid-Semester Evaluation Progress Report
- Field Supervisor (Non-Jud.) Mid-Semester Evaluation Progress Report
- Field Supervisor Externship Guidelines
- Field Supervisor Final Evaluation Report
- Student Evaluation of Externship & Field Supervisor
- Student Evaluation of Judicial Externship & Field Supervisor
- New Externship Proposal - (PDF)
- Illinois Attorney General Extern Application (link)