Mr. Bowman, Ms Conyers, Mr. Heyrman, Mr. Schmidt, Ms Snyder, Mr. Stone, Mr. Futterman. This seminar teaches trial preparation, trial advocacy, and strategy through a variety of teaching techniques, including lectures and demonstrations, but primarily through simulated trial exercises. Topics include opening statements, witness preparation, direct and cross examination, expert witnesses, objections at trial, and closing argument. Practicing lawyers and judges are enlisted to provide students with lectures and critiques from varied perspectives. The course concludes with a simulated jury trial presided over by sitting state and federal court judges.
Evidence is a prerequisite.
Students taking the Intensive Trial Practice Workshop are not eligible to enroll in Trial Advocacy. Completion of this workshop partially satisfies one of the requirements for admission to the trial bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The student's grade is based on class participation. Mr. Heyrman Mental health advocacy teaches litigation and other advocacy skills. Under the supervision of the clinical teacher, students engage in individual and systemic litigation and legislative and other advocacy on behalf of indigent, mentally ill clients of the Law School's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic.