Skip to Search Box Skip to Main Menu Skip to Content Skip to Bottom Menu ... Required Courses Second Year Lawyering Seminars Elective Courses Topics In Law Courses Clinical Programs Library ... Summer Session Lawyering Seminars Lawyering Seminars I, II and III These three separate one-semester courses build on each other and are spread over the first two years of study. They are largely experiential, integrating areas of legal doctrine with lawyering skills in various simulated, role-playing exercises, which create ongoing feedback and individualized focus on each student's skills development. In addition to significant feedback and end-of-semester grades, each student receives a narrative evaluation of performance in six competency areas: professional responsibility, theoretic perspective, clinical judgment, communication (oral and written), legal reasoning, and management of effort. The small class size enables opportunities for students to experiment with various lawyering techniques and styles, as well as to use experiences in-role as clients and judges to critically assess the impact of a lawyer's actions. The Lawyering Seminars' focus is on legal method, legal reasoning, legal writing, professional responsibility, lawyer-client relations, and dispute resolution (including mediation, negotiation, and litigation). The first semester concentrates on understanding the legal system, legal reasoning, writing skills, history and structure of the legal profession, an introduction to the rules of professional conduct, and an introduction to interviewing and counseling. In the second semester, the emphasis is on advanced reasoning and writing skills, formulating the theory of a case, advanced lawyer-client relations, dispute resolution theory, negotiation, advocacy, and a more in-depth examination of selected sections of the rules of professional conduct. | |
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