Chat Discussion Welcome to Chicago-Kent College of Law as you embark on what may seem at times a perilous, but hopefully ultimately a rewarding voyage. There are a number of rites of passage in a law school education. A class in Legal Writing is one of them.
Some students consider it the best of times, others consider it the worst of times.
But the consensus of practicing attorneys today is that it is the most important of times. The ability to provide legal analysis and to convey that analysis to an audience, whether it be by written or by verbal means, is critical to the practice of law. This course is designed to instruct you on how to do legal analysis, how to conduct the research that provides the foundation for legal analysis, and how to effectively present your analysis to your audience. Because different individuals learn in different ways, we will try to provide instruction to you via a range of different means. This format will include at least two aspects.