Course Page for Spring 2025 ZPO - Baldwin, Julie, Turner, Andrew

Are you planning to take a bar exam? Do you want to improve your legal analysis and writing skills, as you head for law practice? This intensive workshop-style course will help students refine their skills when writing under time pressure. Students will develop strategies for enhancing their legal writing, analysis, organization, and editing abilities using bar-exam essay questions. There will be multiple opportunities to practice writing clearly and coherently when time is short. The course aims to help students write effectively and efficiently both on a bar exam and under a short deadline in practice. If you are interested in enrolling, If you are interested in enrolling, please fill out the form located at this URL:

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Course Page for Spring 2025 ZPO - Cauble, Emily

This course provides an introduction to contract drafting techniques and provides you with the opportunity to draft contractual language to address hypothetical situations intended to mirror situations you might encounter when representing clients in practice.

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Course Page for Summer 2023 - Turner, Andrew

Learn the art and craft of transactional drafting in this highly interactive, practice-focused course. Learn how to address and resolve challenges in business transactions by drafting precise and clear contractual provisions. Most attorneys work with contracts at some point in their careers, and understanding how contracts are negotiated and drafted is critical for both transactional attorneys and commercial litigators. In this course, students will learn to recognize and understand common contractual provisions, structure an effective and elegant agreement, detect drafting landmines, appreciate the functions and nuances of boilerplate language, and negotiate and draft a variety of contract provisions.

Course Page for Fall 2023 Regular - Brown, Dustin

The ability to think and write “like a judge” is an asset to any lawyer. This experiential course will focus on developing those skills, from drafting opinions to answering complex legal questions. Anyone interested in clerkships, judicial decision-making, or legal writing more broadly will benefit from this course’s writing-intensive approach and its attention to the view “from the bench.” Writing assignments will include bench memos, trial court orders, and appellate opinions. Judges, law clerks, and other specialists may appear as guest speakers.

Course Page for Spring 2024 ZPO - Fox, Ashby

This advanced legal writing course introduces students to the fundamental components of civil pretrial litigation practice. Students will draft a variety of documents that lawyers commonly prepare during the pre-litigation and pretrial processes, including demand letters, pleadings, discovery requests, pretrial motions, and mediation statements. Students will enhance their legal research, analysis, writing, and oral advocacy skills, and will develop practical skills involving litigation strategy, case management, valuation and settlement strategy, client relations, and alternative dispute resolution. The class is hands-on and interactive, and students will receive extensive feedback from their professor and their peers as they develop and improve their skills