Focus on strategies for designing systemic approaches to resolve a cluster or stream of disputes in particular organizations or institutions, including government agencies, educational and health care settings, corporations, and non-profit organizations. Robinson Students in this simulation course are divided into law firms and assigned roles that correspond to the pre-trial tasks lawyers routinely are called upon to perform in civil cases. The exercises begin with discovery, and students attend a Fed. By the end of the course, each student will have simulated moving a case from the filing of a complaint to the eve of trial. Thereafter, students conduct and attend grand jury proceeding, arraignments, bail hearings, preliminary hearings, suppression hearings, plea bargaining sessions, and plea hearings before the trial judge.
Students conduct discovery and file pre-trial motions and responses.
By the end of the course, each student will have simulated moving a case from arrest to the eve of trial. Levie Students learn to conduct a civil, criminal, or administrative trial before a jury or judge in a professional and effective manner. By engaging in simulated courtroom situations followed by specific critiques and recommendations for improvement, students learn to present persuasive opening statements and closing arguments, to conduct forceful direct and cross- examination of fact witnesses and experts, and to introduce successfully all types of exhibits. By reference to examples, students also become familiar with the ethical, evidentiary, procedural, and substantive aspects of litigation. The course will emphasize practical solutions to typical problems litigators encounter in the presentation of a case.