Materials on reading and analyzing cases are included. Representative substantive areas of law, including tort law, administrative law, and employment law, are reviewed to provide an initial analysis of legal thinking and writing. Ethical issues for lawyers and those who work in conjunction with them are also discussed. Legal Research and Writing session 1, session 2 Techniques involving fact analysis, issue spotting, organization principles, and legal problems involving statutes, digests, and case law are taught. Legal research and writing skills are developed through assigned library research problems.
Students learn to prepare law office memoranda, legal briefs, and other common legal documents.
A workshop on computerized legal research is included. Some computer literacy is highly recommended. An introduction to the basic substantive law of real property and the practical aspects of handling real estate matters. Includes a discussion of the common law development of real property, deeds and conveyances, liens and encumbrances, easements and restrictive covenants, and conditional estates. Other topics include leases, forms of ownership, recording acts, brokers, contracts for sale of real property, title examination, title policies and surveys, and foreclosures.