Professional Skills: Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement
Registration Information
Upperclass-only elective
Meeting Times
Day
Time
Location
MON, TUE, WED, THU
2:00 - 3:30 pm
JON 5.206/7
Description
This course is a broad survey of three main types of legal writing: objective analysis, persuasive analysis, and transactional drafting. The course will also cover many other topics crucial to high-level professional writing: use of forms, advanced legal citation, the plain English movement, advanced grammar and punctuation, document design, legal usage, and editing. Students will receive individual critiques of their writing, and lectures will use model answers and sample critiques.
Textbooks ( * denotes required )
Better Legal Writing(optional)
Schiess
W.S. Hein
,
edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-0837737034
Preparing Plain Legal Documents for Nonlawyers(optional)
Schiess, Wayne 