Advanced Legal Analysis and Writing

Catalog description

This upper-level writing course or an approved substitute is required to graduate. Students learn professional skills that include written communication and drafting and editing pleadings, briefs, and judgments. Students engage in a rigorous writing experience involving drafting an appellate brief. Students are taken through the research, analysis, and writing process step-by-step, during which they learn to spot and analyze issues, to organize their thoughts, and to express those thoughts clearly in writing. Students confer individually with their professors for assessments of their written work and edit and rewrite their appellate briefs. Legal Analysis and Writing I and II are prerequisites for this course.