Legal Writing III: From Bar to Practice Readiness

Catalog description

7351. 3 hours. Legal Writing III is a required course that satisfies the Upper-Level Major Writing Requirement. UNT Dallas College of Law offers a variety of Legal Writing III courses that students can select based on their interest. All Legal Writing III courses are designed to give students experience drafting multiple writing assignments and engaging in the process of rewriting each of the major assignments in the course. Although the type of writings being drafted vary based on the topic of the Legal Writing III course, all Legal Writing III courses include at least (and often more than) a total of 25-pages of writing with the opportunity to rewrite the major assignment(s) after significant written and oral feedback from the course professor. Major writing assignments will comprise at least 60 percent of the course grade. Additionally, all Legal Writing III courses require students to complete at least two Multi-State Performance Tests ("MPT") selected by the Director of Legal Writing. A practice MPT will be given at the midterm exam and a graded MPT (worth 10 percent of the course grade) will be given at the final exam. Students will research and write drafts of various writings using the methods taught to all students in Legal Writing I and II. The various writings will include emails to a fictitious partner in a firm regarding a client's inquiring into a lawsuit, a memorandum to the same partner regarding the predicted outcome of any such lawsuit, and a motion for summary judgment predicated on the same legal fact pattern. This course serves as a major writing requirement.