Fall 2023
Professor(s):
Maikieta Brantley (CLINICAL FACULTY [405(b)])
Credits: 3
Course Areas: 1st Year - Section C
Time: 9:00a-10:30a-M 2:30p-4:00p-TH Location: 222
Course Outline: Lawyering Skills and Strategies I will focus on an introduction to the American legal system and the skills and strategic planning lawyers must possess to succeed within it. The curriculum will be problem – based, using fact-pattern simulations to enable students to work through actual practice skills and strategies and ethical issues. Training in essential lawyering skills such as oral communication, legal writing, research and analysis will be embedded within fact pattern simulations involving typical transactional issues which students will work through to develop lawyering skills and problem-solving strategies. Students will be divided into small groups to represent opposing sides of the problem.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. After student registration opens, there may be instruction mode changes to this course up through two weeks before the first day of classes for the term, but notice of such changes will be sent to then-registered students. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments: Reading for the first day: A Lawyer Writes: Introduction and Chapter 1.
Final Exam Schedule: 12/01 9am-noon 222
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Required Course)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: A Lawyer Writes, Coughlin, 3rd Edition (ISBN: 9781531008765), Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 21st Edition (9780578666150)
I will also ask you to purchase a subscription to “Mastering the Bluebook Interactive Exercises.” We will discuss in class.