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Expand Legal Research/Intro To Advocacy

Instructor:
Beau B Steenken
Michael David Murray
816
Credits:
2.0
001
Building:
Law Building
Law Building
Room:
Rm.297
Rm.195
Semester:
Spring 2025
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
Expand Legal Research/Intro To Advocacy
Requisites:

Prereq: LAW 806.

Class Type:
LEC
LEC
1:00 pm
11:00 am
1:50 pm
11:50 am
Days:
F
M

Training in legal research, legal reasoning and analysis, persuasive legal writing, legal citation, and oral advocacy. In the legal research portion of the Course, students receive training on expanded research tasks and work with both familiar and additional resources for performing research. In the legal writing portion of the Course, problem-based writing assignments are used to give students additional practice in the fundamentals of legal reasoning and analysis and legal citation, to introduce students to the fundamentals of effective legal writing for advocacy in an adversarial context, and to provide exposure to oral advocacy. Students are exposed to some of the types of legal documents that are commonly used by lawyers in practice and the different legal audiences for those documents.

Training in legal research, legal reasoning and analysis, persuasive legal writing, legal citation, and oral advocacy. In the legal research portion of the Course, students receive training on expanded research tasks and work with both familiar and additional resources for performing research. In the legal writing portion of the Course, problem-based writing assignments are used to give students additional practice in the fundamentals of legal reasoning and analysis and legal citation, to introduce students to the fundamentals of effective legal writing for advocacy in an adversarial context, and to provide exposure to oral advocacy. Students are exposed to some of the types of legal documents that are commonly used by lawyers in practice and the different legal audiences for those documents.

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