Lawyering Seminar III

Lawyering Seminar III builds on the skills learned in the first year, illustrating the ways in which lawyers work and think in particular areas of practice. Students continue to enhance their analytic skills by writing and revising legal documents on which they receive feedback and critiques. They also acquire new qualitative skills, such as active listening (to clients, adversaries, and others), problem solving and decision making, self-evaluation, and ethical reasoning. The Lawyering Seminar III teaches these skills in the context of particular substantive areas, such as criminal defense, international human rights, labor arbitration, or micro-enterprise. Students are encouraged to develop critical awareness of the social, legal, philosophical, political, and psychological content of their work, central to an exploration of lawyers' status and role, including the mandates and aspirations of the Code of Professional Responsibility.All Lawyering Seminar III classes must meet the following requirements:(1)All classes must require written work that totals at least 15 pages; if there is more than one writing assignment, one of the writing assignments must be at least ten pages.(2)The written work must involve legal analysis that includes discussion and application of legal standards and must reinforce the analytical approach taught to students in the first-year lawyering seminars (e.g., CRRACC approach or a similarly structured paradigm). The work can be either based in student legal research or a package of legal sources provided by the professor. If there is more than one writing assignment, the writing that is at least ten pages must meet this standard.(3)The written work must include at least one draft with written faculty feedback. Advance criteria for the written work must be given to the students. Written feedback contemplates use of some combination of line editing, global comments, anduse of specific rubrics, criteria, or checklists, as appropriate to the nature of the assignment and its stage of development (for example, whether it is a first draft or later draft following initial feedback). (4)The course must require a rewrite that encompasses the faculty feedback. (5)The written work must provide the students with a suitable writing sample for potential employers.PREREQUISITES: LAW 7004 & LAW 7005 Lawyering Seminar I &II