LAW 9101 - Lawyering Skills I

The Lawyering Skills course will introduce students to a wide range of crucial skills necessary to the successful practice of law. This course, team-taught by lawyering skills faculty and library staff, introduces students to the law library, electronic legal databases, basic legal research, legal citation, legal analysis and synthesis, legal writing, and oral advocacy. Assignments will help students develop legal research and writing skills (primarily in objective and predictive contexts, such as internal legal memoranda and advice letters, but to include at least one formal complaint), and client contact skills (such as intake, interviewing, oral client communications, and written client correspondence). By the end of this course, students will have developed many of the core legal reading, analysis, writing, and oral presentation skills essential to effective client representation. Credit(s): 3