An ability to communicate accurately and effectively is an essential quality for the practice of law. Not only must lawyers be equipped to express their thoughts with clarity, precision, and persuasiveness, but they must also develop an ability to comprehend others' ideas. A sensitivity to the fluidity and deceptiveness of language is essential. Law professors commonly complain that beginning law students cannot write effectively. A prime advantage for Pre-Law students at UNC is the opportunity to gain the necessary writing experience directed by skilled faculty members.
Classes are small, permitting close and frequent studentprofessor interaction.
This art involves knowledge in research sources and methods, ability to marshal and use facts, inductive and deductive reasoning skills, critical analysis and constructive synthesis abilities enhancing the power to make decisions. Use of creative thinking will often merge with and become dependent on knowledge about and understanding of human institutions and values. The power to think must be utilized in a social context. Lawyers will be called on to help to solve actual or potential conflicts in an infinite variety of human relationships. Developing insights into human institutions and values is a primary goal of lawyers.