Mercer Law has a long history of providing students with really rich experiential opportunities, and that is a tradition that continues really in full force today, and in recent years, we've expanded our experiential programming quite significantly providing students with really valuable work experience to become practice ready attorneys.
We've got externship placements for students to be with judges, with prosecutors, with public defenders, as in house counsel for major corporations like Coca Cola or Home Depot. These courses are really designed to reinforce the knowledge that you've already gained from the rest of the curriculum here at Mercer law, but also to bring it to life and to allow you to be a part of it.
Hands on, education is really important to becoming a lawyer, because there's only so much that you can learn in a classroom and from a case book. Once you actually start meeting with real human beings and clients and seeing what a courtroom looks like and how a judge operates, it gives you the opportunity to really see yourself as part of the legal system, maybe for the first time, all of the clinics and the field placements and externships have some kind of classroom component to them.
You'll be meeting with the professor weekly and with the other students in your class, and you'll just sort of share what your experience has been. What kind of cases have you taken, what kind of court experience have you had? And so you'll get the expertise from the professors in class, and you'll also get the expertise from your classmates who are having similar experiences. It's great for students during law school to have the opportunity to work with clients, because they get to apply what they've learned.
They get to see what the practice of law looks like in real life. They get to develop a professional identity early. It can also be really helpful then, in terms of getting jobs after graduation, because you're telling employers, I've done this before, and I know how to do this, and that makes you marketable and more attractive to employers following graduation, and it also sets you up for success once you're in those jobs.
