LEGAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM CLASSROOM OFFERINGS

After students have identified their field placement, they should meet with Professor Feeley to confirm the placement and arrange for registration.

Legal Process and Practice (Spring 2010- Professor Feeley)

This course is required for all students registered for a legal internship placement for the Spring 2010 semester. The two credits granted for this course are in addition to and independent of any credits awarded for that field placement experience. This classroom component will cover topics including ethical issues relating to internships; economic, social and moral issues in the legal profession; workplace skills; and discussion of field experiences. For their internship placement, students are required to keep regular journals which also will be discussed in this class. Readings and class participation are essential components of the course. An in-class oral presentation on a topic related to the student's fieldwork experience is required. An extended journal on an ethical issue is required. The paper will not satisfy the writing requirement. Student work is graded on the letter grade system. This course does not fulfill the academic requirement for internships through Suffolk University Law School and the Center for International Legal Studies.

As an alternative to the Legal Process and Practice course, students can be supervised individually by a full-time faculty member only if the student has taken, or is in the process of taking, a substantive course elective with that faculty member and that course relates to the field placement experience. Decisions about what courses and which placements qualify will be made by the Clinical Professor for Internships in consultation with the Director of Clinical Programs. The faculty member must agree to supervise the student under the guidelines of the Internship Program.

Transactional Law and Practice (Spring 2010- Todd Krieger)

This course is available to two groups of students: 1) Those students who are registered, during the Spring 2008 semester, in a legal internship placement focusing on transactional practice, and 2) Those students, not enrolled in such a legal internship placement during the Spring 2008 semester, but interested in studying transactional law and practice. (This is a limited enrollment course. Priority is available to those students who will be registered contemporaneously in the previously-described legal internship placement.) (See detailed information below.)

1) This course is a focused section of the two-credit, contemporaneous course requirement for students registered in a legal internship placement in the Spring, 2008 semester. The two credits granted for this course are in addition to and independent of any credits awarded for field placement experience. This specialized section of the internship classroom requirement will focus on transactional law practice subjects including contract analysis and drafting; entity formation; intellectual property research and licensing; client counseling; etc. Guest lecturers, including practitioners from major local law firms, will lend their experienced insight and examples to further enhance the students’ learning experience. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis or on a Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail (no credit) basis at the election of the student by January 16, 2008 and a student’s grade will be based on his or her journal entries, class participation, individual or group presentations and other assigned projects. Students placed at Bose Corporation, selected local law firms with a transactional practice, and other in-house counsel and IP firms will be eligible for participation in this section. Any student interested in registering in the legal internship placement must see Prof. Bernadette Feeley for approval before registering for the classroom component.