Strategies for Incorporating Leadership into Legal Clinics and Externships

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: N/A

Room: Union Square 15&16

Floor: Fourth Floor

This concurrent session will offer insights, examples, principles, and exercises from law school leadership courses and leadership coaching. This is a personalized and confidential form of professional and personal development that can be used in legal clinics and externships, in transactional and litigation settings. Participants will explore why leadership is important, how it can be taught, and the benefits of leadership coaching practices and techniques. Participants will gain an understanding of how to teach leadership skills which can be used by students in a non-hierarchal setting, such as when a student is a member of a team of students in a clinical setting or other law school activities, as well as some of the skills that are important to exercising leadership once they assume a leadership role in an organization. Thus, students will find these leadership concepts useful while they are in law school and also once they become practicing lawyers.