Law 9104 - Experiential Legal Writing IV

Second year required 2L
This course focuses on transactional drafting and requires students to draft and redraft several 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.

Topics in Experiential Legal Writing IV include the following:

Familiarity with and an understanding of common transactional documents;
Transactional drafting techniques;
Drafting and redrafting various transactional documents;
Developing negotiation skills in a variety of contexts;

This course continues the process of developing competent legal writers who are self-sufficient learners and effective problem solvers.*Second year required course Credit(s): 2