"Experience - The Real Teacher."
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Externship Program is designed to enhance the educational experience of second and third year law students by giving them an opportunity to do advanced legal work that is generally not available through the College of Law curriculum. Students may do substantial legal work with judges from the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court of Arizona, Arizona Court of Appeals, and Maricopa County Superior Court; agencies such as the Office of the Attorney General, Maricopa County Public Defender, or Cities of Tempe, Mesa, or Scottsdale; or work side-by-side with lawyers in non-profit settings, such as Community Legal Services, The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Children's Project, or Phoenix Children's Hospital. Simultaneously the work students perform provides greatly needed legal assistance to non-profit or governmental legal agencies that do not have the funds to hire legal interns.