Find Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About: 

FINDING A PLACEMENT | APPLYING TO THE PROGRAM | REGISTERING | OBTAINING A LIMITED LICENSE | KEEPING UP WITH PAPERWORK DURING A PLACEMENT | BADGES AND HONOR CORD PROGRAM

Belmont Law treats finding an experiential learning placement like a typical job search to both maximize the fit between your learning goals and your site's needs and to give you additional interviewing practice. Therefore, Belmont Law does not affirmatively place students into placements. Students are selected by the potential site through an application and interview process. Experiential learning "job" opportunities can be located on a rolling basis on Briefcase, and students can also find opportunities "off-book." Find more information here on qualifying sites, placement types, how to find a placement when the opportunity is not listed on Briefcase, when you can repeat a placement at the same site, and typical application seasons for each of our cycles (Summer, Fall, and Spring). 

Once your placement site makes you a "job" offer (for the externship, field placement, or clinic), you may apply to the Experiential Learning Program through Briefcase > Experiential Learning. All applications are subject to Director approval. Blank copies of the Memorandum of Understanding and the Remote Work Agreement are available on this site's homepage, on TWEN, and on Briefcase > Resource Library. You will need this initiating paperwork as part of your application on Briefcase. Find more information here on how to apply to the program and the program dates that govern upcoming cycles.

Find more information here on the various experiential learning courses, how to calculate experiential learning credits (including when a placement can count as your required practicum), the various terms in which you are eligible to enroll in the program, concurrent seminar offerings, special considerations for summer-cycle placements, and when to register for credit versus participate in the program as an audit-track student.

If you would like to obtain permission to practice law under the student practice rules (sometimes this permission is colloquially referred to as a "limited license" though that nomenclature is incorrect), or you need to obtain paperwork from Belmont Law required by your site, you must be participating in the Field Placements Program as either a for-credit student or an audit-track student.

Belmont Law scales the curriculum for participation in the Experiential Learning Program so that you get a different learning experience each time you participate. Find more information here describing those curricular levels and other common questions that come up during the course of an experiential learning placement, such as signatory issues for time sheets, how to handle getting locked out of your Briefcase profile, how to document weeks you are away from your placement for vacation, a visual related to homework due before Classroom Component B, a run-down of all the to-do's necessary to "close out" your experience in Briefcase at the end of a cycle, and more.

Upon successful completion of a credited experiential learning placement (a summer externship, an in-semester field placement, or a clinic), the student will earn a digital badge. Once a student has collected all three digital badges for successful completion of three, credited placements and all three levels of the Experiential Learning Program, the student will be eligible for an honor cord at hooding.