LAW 725LEC - Practice-Ready Legal Analysis & Writing

This course covers objective and persuasive writing, as well as document drafting. The goal of this course is to make you more comfortable with drafting legal documents to enable you to quickly produce excellent work in practice. During this course, you will improve your writing skills, sharpen your legal analysis and strategy, and further develop your editing ability. You will draft one document per class, with time for collective review, followed by individual editing and rewriting. The documents you will draft include a statute, a contract, jury instructions, a demand letter, a complaint/answer, a notice of motion/motion, interrogatories, an opinion letter, a will, and a statement of facts (both objective and persuasive). This course is focused solely on writing and analysis; there is no research component.

Credits: 3