Litigation Strategies

Catalog description

This is a skills course designed to teach students planning, case analysis, and strategy skills in the preparation of a complex case. Students will follow a complex civil or criminal case through initial interview and pretrial stages and conclude with jury selection and opening and closing arguments. Students will develop case budgets, find expert witnesses and consultants, and prepare for depositions and trial testimony. Throughout the course students will be required to think and act like lawyers as they plan, organize, and prepare their case for trial. Students will work on a simulation of an actual case that one of the faculty members' law firms took to trial; students will develop the case for trial under the guidance of a practicing attorney familiar with the case who will serve as a co-instructor of the course. Prerequisite(s): Evidence and Trial Advocacy. Satisfies skills requirement. Graded.