Externships: Our Students at Work

Widener Law Commonwealth offers professionally rich externship opportunities. Externs immerse themselves in the day-to-day working lives of practicing attorneys and judges, hone research and writing skills, earn academic credit, and build a network for future employment.

Through our clinical and judicial externships program, placements are offered with State and county agencies, the Commonwealth and Supreme courts of Pennsylvania, senators and representatives of the State legislative body, and others. Second- and third-year externs work with judges, State and local prosecutors, public defenders, and legal service and government agencies.

Externship forms are available on the Externships TWEN page.

Featured Students at Work

 

Mikhaeil Awad

Graduation Year:  May 2019
Hometown:  Wayne, New Jersey (Originally from Syria)
Summer Placement:  U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

 

Queenette Echefu

Graduation Year:  May 2019
Hometown:  Bronx, New York
Summer Placement:  Office of General Counsel, Department of Aging

 

Cheri Sparacino

Graduation Year:  May 2018
Hometown:  State College, Pennsylvania
Summer Placement:  Chief Magistrate Judge Schwab, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

 

Tyler Calkins

Graduation Year:  May 2018
Hometown:  Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania
Summer Placement:  Dauphin County Public Defenders Office