This course is designed to help students become more comfortable drafting a variety of legal documents quickly and effectively, enabling them to produce excellent, timely work in practice. The course covers both predictive and persuasive writing, as well as document drafting. During this course, students will improve their fundamental writing skills, sharpen their legal analysis and strategy, and further develop their editing ability. Students will draft one document per class, with time for collective review, followed by individual editing and rewriting. The documents students will draft include a statute, a contract, jury instructions, a complaint/answer, a notice of motion/motion, interrogatories, an opinion letter, and a will. The particularly small class size—the course is capped at ten students—will facilitate a workshop atmosphere that includes collective editing exercises and multiple opportunities to provide and receive detailed and meaningful feedback. This course focuses solely on writing and analysis. There is no research component. Grading: LETTER Credits: 2 Offered:
