Law 9104 - Experiential Legal Writing IV

Yes 2L
This course focuses on advanced persuasive writing techniques and requires students to draft several litigation and transactional documents that address a variety of complex legal issues in different jurisdictions, in real-world contexts, and in areas of the law that are tested on the bar examination and relevant to law practice. In addition, the drafting assignments will be given under real-world conditions similar to those that confront most first-year law associates when they begin law practice. This will require students to:

Draft documents that you will encounter in law practice;
Comply with tight deadlines;
Perform research in areas of the law where you have no knowledge or prior experience;
Draft parts of pleadings in various jurisdictions throughout the United States;
Assess the likelihood of success based on incomplete or unknown facts;
Draft a compelling narrative; and
Make strategic decisions regarding litigation strategy.

Simply put, this course will teach students to practices like lawyers by training them to reason and write under conditions that lawyers face on a daily basis. Students will not, for example, be permitted to collaborate with their classmates on research and drafting assignments except where permitted by the professors, and for certain assignments students will not be able to consult with or receive guidance from their classmates or professors. This process will enable students to become self-sufficient learners and effective problem solvers. *Second year required course Credit(s): 2