Introduction To Law & Ethics

Catalog description

Introduces students to the structure of the US legal system and its historical antecedents through the analysis of a litigated case as it moves forward from the initial presentation of a claim or concern to a lawyer, covering informal fact gathering and investigation, case evaluation and strategy, parties, jurisdiction, pleadings, procedure motions, provisional remedies, evidence, discovery, settlement attempts, trial preparation, trials and appeals, enforcement of judgments, and alternatives to the traditional method of dispute resolution.