LAW 884 - Advanced Litigation Skills

College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly

Trial work is a relatively modest fraction of a litigator’s life. Yet most law schools routinely offer trial advocacy courses, and largely ignore the other practical forms and occasions for litigation advocacy. This is a one-semester program where aspiring litigators would confront the more typical litigation problems that would combine and hone their training in legal writing and written advocacy, civil and criminal procedure, and privilege and other issues arising in the course of discovery, motion practice, negotiation and oral advocacy. This experiential course would accomplish this through a series of classroom simulations and written homework assignments that required the students to address a series of typical litigation problems.