SMNR: Race Perspectives for Future Lawyers

• Semester: Spring 2023
• Course ID: 397S
• Credit Hours: 3
• Unique: 29799

Description

Race continues to play a central role in American life and no where is this more present that in the legal profession. This course will help lawyers raise their level of cultural intelligence and in the process it will make them more effective at their jobs. Students who take this course will understand how race plays itself out in the courtroom, during a deposition, during discovery, when writing appeals, during jury selection, in conversation with both the senior and junior partners of the firm, during arbitration, when hiring expert witnesses, during complex legal transactions, and with meeting opposing counsel.