Lewis & Clark Law School Externship Program
On-Site Mentor’s Memorandum of Agreement
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Student Extern Name:                                                                                                                                        
Supervising Attorney/Judge:                                                                                                                            

	As the Externship Supervising Attorney/Judge, I agree to the following conditions for participation in the Lewis & Clark Law School Externship Program:

1.	To give the extern an orientation to the placement, and to review and set goals for learning with the extern at the beginning of the Externship;
2.	To provide the extern with assignments as responsible and challenging as possible given the extern’s experience, to have the extern work as a lawyer to the extent feasible, and to keep menial tasks to an absolute minimum.
3.	To ensure a regular, active participation in all available activities, including in-house meetings, contact with opposing counsel, client contact, judges’ conferences, all phases of litigation, administrative proceedings, discovery, strategy and policymaking sessions, etc.;
4.	To ensure a regular system of communication between myself and the extern, including time for establishing goals, fully discussing each assigned task at the time of assignment and setting learning objectives for each major task; reviewing work in progress, providing extensive written and oral feedback, answering questions, and discussing strategy, tactics and rationales;
5.	To provide ongoing training in ethics and professionalism issues, to discuss ethics and professionalism issues as they arise during the externship, and to explain to the extern at the beginning of the externship what the policies of the workplace are with regard to professionalism and ethics;
6.	To discuss confidentiality issues with the extern, especially as they relate to the extern’s weekly journal; 
7.	To complete written evaluations of the student extern and his or her work and to return the evaluations to the Law School;
8.	If required, to participate in a site visit from the extern’s faculty advisor;
9.	To not bill the extern’s time to a client if the extern is not being compensated;
10.	For criminal law semester externships only: to ensure that the extern is able to participate in all phases of a criminal matter during the tenure of their externship.

      	For-Profit Employers Only (If you will not be compensating the extern): I attest I have reviewed U.S. Department of Labor Department Fact Sheet #71 (Internship Standards under the Fair Labor Standards Act) which includes the “Test for Unpaid Interns” and believe this externship meets the six test criteria.

        I understand that the educational objectives of the Externship experience are for the Extern to learn an area of substantive law or to develop substantive expertise beyond the level offered in courses at the Law School;  to develop practical lawyering skills, including research, writing and analytical problem-solving in context; and to build a direct understanding of the student’s professional responsibility, and I agree to assist the student in reaching these objectives to the best of my ability.  I also certify that I am an active member in good standing of the Bar of        .

Signature:                                          Title:                                        

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