Successful translation is measured by learning of the jargon. Mastery of legal jargon will be one of your main tasks in this course. It is not the object of this course to make you a lawyer. Rather, the course objective is to develop your abilities to think and to talk like a lawyer. The prime objective of this course is to prepare you to be an efficient and knowledgeable consumer of legal services during your business career.
All final exams are comprehensive.
Note particularly the Major Topics list immediately after this syllabus in the ABL Lecture Notes and on O'Hara's web page. The surplus questions on each exam will be the only curve any exam receives. Also note, the existence of surplus questions will render an ambiguous question as a non-harmless error unless a student wishing to claim injury can identify more ambiguous questions than the number of surplus questions. Keep your exams and use them as study aids. For the Group Final Exam, each group may repeatedly submit their exam for grading.