Enrollment is limited. Open to LL.M. students. The exercises begin with discovery, and students attend a Fed. Students prepare discovery motions and responses, take and defend depositions, file dispositive motions, attend a pretrial conference, and prepare a joint pretrial memorandum. By the end of the course, each student will have simulated moving a case from the filing of a complaint to the eve of trial.
Enrollment is limited.
Open to LL.M. students. Examination of the ethical rules that govern threats to sue and responses to such threats, and the rules that are particularly important once litigation has commenced. Each class focuses on a hypothetical problem involving an ethical issue or set of issues. In each hypothetical, the lawyer's duty to the client and the lawyer's duty to the court are explored through role playing. Enrollment is limited.