About Us

The Center for Externships is housed within Northwestern Pritzker School of Law's Bluhm Legal Clinic, aligning with the clinic's mission to provide comprehensive hands-on learning opportunities to law students. Through externship placements, students gain real-life legal experience in judicial chambers, government agencies, corporations, non-profit legal organizations and start-ups while simultaneously reflecting on their work and experiences in a seminar taught by residential and adjunct faculty.

Who We Are

Anita Maddali, Center for Externships Director

Anita Maddali brings over fifteen years of experience teaching law students in both doctrinal and experiential courses and in developing clinical and externship programs that prepare students for legal practice. Feel free to contact her if you are an employer seeking to share an externship opportunity or a student wanting to learn more about externships. Email anita.maddali@law.northwestern.edu or call 312.503.5932.

Cindy Wilson, Center for Externships Director Emeritus

Cindy Wilson has taught externship courses at the law school since 2000 and founded the Center for Externships in 2010. She is a national advocate on the importance of experiential education in law school and is a co-author of the leading book on externship pedagogy.