Your experience in this course will help you prepare to face such situations comfortably. Y ou have a professional obligation to prepare for class. Should you not be prepared, give me a note at the podium before class. If you are unprepared and notify me in advance, it will count as one-half an absence. If you are unprepared and do not notify me, it will count as two absences.
P reparing for class encompasses two elements.
First, it requires reading and understanding the assigned material. Understanding the material may require you to consult a law or general college level dictionary or other reference source. It may require you to review previously covered material. It may require that you read cases or law review articles cited in the assignment or in class. Second, preparation entails writing a brief of the principal cases or cases in the assignment.