Legal Practicum Engages students in simulated learning experiences and exercises. Students practice law in two-person law firms under the supervision of faculty and tutors. Each of the student firms is involved in proceedings including a jury trial, oral arguments, motion arguments, mediation, arbitration, negotiations, and in-chambers settlement conferences. Students interview clients, investigate facts, conduct depositions, prepare pleadings and motions, draft documents, compose memos, and prepare research memos and briefs. Each week, the student law firms receive information about new cases and problems or continuing developments.
Students can take the course for either three or five credits.
Students who take it for three credits must complete an 150-hour minimum requirement. Students who take it for five credits must complete a 235-hour minimum requirement. Management of Complex Civil Litigation Familiarizes students with some of the special legal and practical problems existing in complex litigation. The course exposes students to the tools used by lawyers and the courts to deal with the problems of complex litigation, and also addresses some of the unanswered issues concerning these cases. The course examines advocacy and management problems common to all complex cases and discusses the means of solving these problems both within and outside the judicial system, and the Judicial Panel onMulti-district Litigation's role in the process.