EXT: Penn Office of General Counsel (Quaglia)
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
Drafting Legal Documents
Other Professional Skills:
Grading
100% Other (All Externships are graded credit/no-credit based on successful completing of field work and externship seminar.)
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can make PowerPoint slides or other class materials available to you.
Meeting Times/Location
TBA
TBA
Category
Clinics/Externships
Credits
7.0
*THE APPLICATION PERIOD FOR APPLYING TO THIS EXTERNSHIP HAS NOW CLOSED*
Field Placement Description: The University of Pennsylvania’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) supports the University and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Externs will have ample opportunity to work on both University and Health System legal matters. The Penn OGC Externship program, which has been in existence for many years, allows students to work closely with attorneys in the OGC, and to become involved in a broad range of legal issues. Students are encouraged to participate in meetings and to take an active role on legal matters.
Seminar Requirements: To receive academic credit for this externship, students will be enrolled in an in-person, semester-long Civil Externship Seminar that meets at the Law School during the same semester as the field placement. Students will meet as a group for one hour every other week during the semester for a total of six meetings. In addition, students will meet individually with the professor mid-semester and at the end of the semester. Soon after course schedules are released, students will receive a Qualtrics Survey to choose one of two seminar times and should plan their course and work schedules accordingly. The Civil Externship Seminar begins the first week of classes and students will choose either Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. or Wednesdays from 12 to 1:00 p.m. Students may not change their seminar time once the semester has started. Students who previously completed a civil externship and are doing another civil externship will be placed in an Advanced Civil Externship Seminar. Those students should notify Professor Kathryn Quaglia at kquaglia@law.upenn.edu for a Qualtrics survey after course schedules have been released to arrange a convenient class meeting time.
Grading: The externship seminar and the field placement are combined for one Credit/No Credit grade. To receive credit, students must satisfy the field placement credit hours and all externship seminar requirements.
Credit Restrictions: No more than 14 semester hours (of the 22 co-curricular semester hour maximum) can be earned in externships (both Gittis and ad hoc externships). Students are not permitted to enroll in a Clinic and Externship in the same semester, or in two Externships in one semester. Students should review important externship registration information: Enrollment Procedures for externships
International JD Students must seek CPT (Curricular Practical Training) credit for the externship work BEFORE the start of the semester. Students will use the completed Statement of Understanding and upload that to their ISSS portal. International students who either get into a Gittis externship through the registration lottery or via a submitted application, or who receive an ad hoc externship approval notice, should email externships@law.upenn.edu right away so we can help you comply with the government’s CPT externship requirements.
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