Not available to MSJ students. This seminar provides students with the tools to prepare and try a medical malpractice case. They then conduct medical research, and learn how to locate expert witnesses. Following this each participant prepares pleadings and serves and responds to discovery requests.
Students take simulated depositions of parties and experts.
They prepare pretrial motions, and attend portions of an on-going medical malpractice trial, a trial call, and motion days. Eighty percent of the grade is based on demonstrated competence in preparation of pleadings, discovery documents, and motions. The remaining twenty percent is based on a research paper on a public policy issue related to malpractice law. Not available to M.S.J. students.