First Year Evening Courses

The following classes are Mandatory and must be taken in your first two semesters

Fall Semester

• Contracts LAW 0612 (4 Credits)
  Course providing a comprehensive study of the creation, transfer, and termination of contract rights and duties.

• Lawyering Skills and Values I LAW 0753 (3 Credits)
  Course integrating legal theory with practice, professionalism, and technology in a transactional setting. LSV I combines instruction in legal research, writing, and analysis with other practical lawyering skills while focusing on predictive legal analysis. Case files are used to develop problem-solving strategies, conduct legal research, draft legal memoranda, and negotiate a settlement of a transactional case.

• Legal Study Skills I LAW 0523 (0 Credits)
  Fall semester first-year component of the Critical Skills Program, addressing and developing essential skills. Legal Study Skills I begins in Orientation with classes describing the stages of a lawsuit, court structure, case structure, case briefing, and synthesis. It continues through the Fall semester with small group sessions teaching the skills necessary to succeed in the early stages of law school.

• Torts LAW 0648 (4 Credits)
  Course surveying the traditional and emerging concepts of rights and responsibilities arising from conduct that results in harm to others.

Winter Semester

• Civil Procedure LAW 0652 (4 Credits)
  Course introducing the theory and mechanics of enforcing substantive rights through civil litigation. Major concepts emphasized include the jurisdiction of state and federal courts; pleadings and pre-trial motions; discovery; post-trial motions; and the appellate process.

• Lawyering Skills and Values II LAW 0754 (3 Credits)
  Course integrating legal theory with practice, professionalism, and technology in a pre-trial litigation setting. As students work through a case file, they interview clients, draft demand letters, client letters, pleadings and motions, research and write pre-trial memoranda, develop persuasive writing skills, counsel clients, orally argue a motion, and participate in court-ordered mediation.

• Legal Study Skills II LAW 0527 (0 Credits)
  Winter semester first-year component of the Critical Skills Program, addressing and developing essential skills. Legal Study Skills II first entails learning from the first semester exams and reviewing class preparation, note taking, and outlining. It then turns to preparing for exams.

• Property LAW 0653 (4 Credits)
  Course introducing rights and interests in both real and personal property. Topics include possession, estates in land, landlord and tenant, real estate transactions and finance, and private and governmental control of land use.