Skills and Subjects Taught

You will learn professional responsibility and legal research and writing as part of your representation of multiple simulated clients.  You will explore conflicts of interest in your representation of clients, report to your partners about client issues with memoranda of law, and electronically file your court documents.  You will represent your clients’ interests from the initial interview through a logical conclusion, which might be alternative dispute resolution, a trial, or an appeal, and all the stages in between.  For those cases that result in a trial, you will have the support of the law school’s Center for Legal and Court Technology, and will receive courtroom technology training in your second-year.  You will conduct your trial in the McGlothlin Courtroom, the most technologically advanced trial and appellate courtroom in the world. 

When all is said and done, you’ll leave the Legal Skills program knowing how to be a collegial and ethical member of an honorable profession.