Prerequisite:
Completion of or concurrent enrollment in Professional Responsibility
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Credits
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Offered
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This skills lab, previously titled Professional Responsibility Skills Lab, deals with communication and organizational skills for advocacy, negotiation, and client retention. Much of communication is an art. Organization is a skill. The course breaks communication and organization into components. The course is taught by lecture and instructor demonstration followed by student practice sessions and video-taped student performances which are critiqued. The course is client, fact, and witness oriented rather than law oriented. The course requires ongoing analysis of a developing fact pattern in a complex hypothetical case. The course develops skills in client relations, file organization, witness handling, questioning techniques, and case analysis. The course culminates with a mock hearing. To facilitate the performance aspects of the lab it meets for two hours every second week.
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Annually/
Spring |
