Curriculum

The Lawyering Program is taught through a series of Exercises in which students work in role to analyze legal questions, develop facts, interview and counsel clients, and engage in written and oral advocacy.

Each Exercise involves close interactions with faculty, either in role as supervising attorneys or out of role as conveners of more traditional classes.

Each of the extended Exercises begins with an introduction to concepts and vocabularies that define the crentral tasks to be undertaken. This task definition phase is followed by a planning phase in which students collaborate to prepare for execution of a lawyering strategy. In the implementation phases, students apply their analyses and carry out their plan; they draft legal documents, interview witnesses and clients, counsel clients and engage in negotiation, mediation and litigation. In the critique phases that conclude Lawyering Exercise, students analyze the choices that they and their colleagues made in the earlier phases.

Clicking on the title of each Exercise will lead you to a brief description.
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