Apart from their assigned mod courses, 1L students may only enroll in courses offered as 1L electives. A complete list of these courses can be found on the 1L Elective Listings page. 1L students must use the 1L class number listed on the course description when enrolling.
206.5 sec. 002 - LL.M. Advanced Legal Writing (Spring 2024)
Instructor: Tarah Gayle Powell-Chen (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
View all teaching evaluations for this course - degree students only
Units: 1
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
Th 6:25 PM - 8:15 PM
Location: Law 107
From February 29, 2024
To April 18, 2024
Course End: April 18, 2024
Class Number: 32657
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 15
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 16
As of: 04/27 11:56 PM
This course is meant to introduce international students to the California and New York bar examination performance tests, and to prepare students to work alongside U.S. attorneys and serve U.S. clients. The tasks in the course are designed to replicate and train students in handling the real-life project assignments typically encountered in a U.S. practice. Problems are drawn from California and New York bar examination performance tests. Students will gain exposure to a variety of legal writing projects, learn to use the U.S style of legal rhetoric in their writing, improve legal analysis and writing skills, and prepare for the bar exam.
This course is divided into a series of tasks of varying type, complexity, and length that a student may encounter on the bar exam performance test section. The types of problems vary, and may include such things as: an advice letter to a client, a research memo as an associate to a supervising partner, or a persuasive brief written for a judge. Students will work individually on most assignments, and will collaborate on some of them as well. This course is not a substitute for a Bar Prep class.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
Prerequisites:
Legal Research and Writing
Exam Notes: (F) In-class final exam
Exam Length: 1.5 hours
Course Category: LL.M.-Only Classes
If you are the instructor or their FSU, you may add a file like a syllabus or a first assignment to this page.
Readers:
No reader.
Books:
Instructor has indicated that no books will be assigned.