LAWS 3397 Summer in Training Seminar

Summer in Practice is a one credit course that will focus on professional development, the future of the legal field, and offer opportunities to reflect on your summer work experience. The course will consist of completing two Harvard Business School interactive online cases, and writing a paper that will be due late July/early August. That paper is expected to be 15 pages and will report and reflect on a substantive legal topic on which you worked over the summer, with an emphasis on reflecting on what a student learned. There will be one meeting prior to the summer, to set forth more details.

Course overview

Department
Law
School
LAW
Credits
1
Level
Graduate
Offered
Every Summer

Course evaluations

Response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations (Avalanche/Blue).

Course rating
2.33 / 5 · Fair
3 responses
Instructor rating
3.00 / 5 · Good
3 responses
Terms evaluated
1
Most recent: Summer 2025

Scales: overall ratings run from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent); agreement questions from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree); weekly effort from 1 (up to 1 hour) to 5 (10 or more hours).

Evaluations by term and instructor
TermInstructorCourse overallInstructor overallWell organizedClear learning objectivesIntellectually challengingHelpful assignmentsApplicable beyond courseAttendance necessaryWeekly effortResponses
Summer 2025David Martin2.33.03.33.33.33.03.02.34–6 hrs/week3 of 14

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-10-09. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

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