Categories: Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution Law Practice Skills

Instructor(s)

Kasieta, Robert

Course Data

Room 3260
W 5:40pm-7:40pm

Pass/Fail: Yes

Past Grade Distributions (Fall '22 and onward)
Fall 2022Spring 2023 ZPO

Course Description

This three credit seminar teaches the important skills that lawyers use up until the time of trial. Since the vast majority of cases settle before trial, a lawyer's success has at least as much to do with mastery of the nuts and bolts of pre-trial advocacy as courtroom prowess. The seminar will use a simulation approach to cover skills that include:

* Interviewing and counseling clients.

* Drafting a complaint.

* Drafting interrogatories and responses to interrogatories.

* Taking and defending depositions.

* Drafting a pre-trial memorandum.

* Participating in a mediation conference.

Students will receive immediate feedback from the instructors on the in-class simulations. Second and third year students are eligible. This course is being offered on a pass/fail basis.

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