Professional skills courses teach skills needed to effectively and responsibly engage in the practice of law. They also provide an excellent vehicle to build upon substantive coursework through application in a practice setting. Professional skills include appellate advocacy skills, interviewing skills, litigation skills, transactional skills, negotiation skills, mediation skills, legal drafting skills, legal problem-solving skills, legislative drafting and advanced legal research and legal writing skills, and other legal practice skills. Each skills course includes opportunities to engage in mock skills exercises requiring the judgment, analytic reasoning and application of law in a practice context and to receive individualized feedback. The faculty for skills courses includes not only full-time faculty, but experienced practitioners.
Students are required to complete at least one skills course for graduation.
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