Due to the increased demand and competition for judicial clerkships, students who are more “clerkship-ready” will have an advantage in obtaining judicial externships and clerkships. Judicial externship supervisors are faced with the challenge of sufficiently preparing students for these valuable judicial opportunities, and meeting judges’ expectations. This session will focus on different approaches and teaching models that can be used in a judicial externship class or seminar to help students become “clerkship-ready.” Supervisors can develop class themes to specifically concentrate on the practical preparation students need to be successful judicial externs as well as, successful clerkship applicants, and clerks. This session will focus on three areas: judicial ethics, judicial writing, and judicial decision-making, and how best to teach and incorporate these areas into an effective judicial externship course. Specifically, the presenters will offer readings, exercises and hypotheticals related to each of these areas, and discuss other potential topics that make our students more “clerkship-ready.”