Courses

    Emphasizes procedural and practical remedies and defenses available in civil litigation. Assigns civil cases related to the course material. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Emphasizes procedural and practical remedies and defenses available in civil litigation. Assigns civil cases related to the course material. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-).
    Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants in Boulder courts. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Department enforced prereq. or coreq., LAWS 6353. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants in Boulder courts. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-).
    Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills, advocacy, and evidence presentation. Concludes with full mock trial. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Focuses on voir dire, opening statement, direct examination of witnesses, and cross examination. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional Year 1, 2, or 3 Law students only.
    Provides valuable skills to assume active roles in the deposition process. Explores why and when to take depositions; drafting and objecting to deposition notices for individual deponents, non-party witnesses, and corporate designees; drafting successful outlines, proper questions and objections; using exhibits; furthering case theory, making and using stipulations; using depositions in pretrial motions and at trial. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Drawing from materials in psychology, behavioral economics, and mathematics, the course studies a range of patterns, fallibilities, and best practices concerning the complex problems commonly encountered by attorneys. Topics include general problem-solving strategies, techniques for operating in environments of uncertainty and complexity, empirically supported cognitive biases and errors, and strategies for recognizing and overcoming those errors.

    This course of seven 100-minute classes aims to present legal reasoning skills crucial to the crafting and criticism of legal arguments. The classes will cover seven topics: rules and standards, the art of the legal distinction, dealing with legal contradictions, facts and framing, level of abstraction, baselines, and legal interpretation.

    Enables a clinical; student an optional 1-2 credit course to complete an ongoing clinic project that does not reach its natural conclusion during the regular term of the clinic. The practicum may be used in connection with any existing clinical course, but only with permission, and under the supervision of the clinical faculty member. A clinical student must complete a minimum of 50 hours of work per credit taken. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Provides a clinical course that enables students to work on briefs of criminal cases being handled by the Appellate Division of the Public Defender or Attorney General's Office. Instruction in oral advocacy is given. Enrollment limited to eight students.

    Offers an intensive involvement in legal research, appellate brief writing, and oral arguments in a competitive context. Student finalists may continue involvement in regional and national competitions. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Covers a broad array of topics, including, but far from limited to, contract negotiation, health law, mergers and acquisitions, and client counseling. A valuable opportunity for students to gain experience outside the classroom and develop tactics for interacting with clients, negotiation, techniques, and transactional drafting skills. Provides great opportunities for networking. A division of Barristers' Council.

    Offers an advanced course covering trial practice elements. Open only to students who have taken LAWS 6109. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Provides practical training in preparing and arguing pretrial, post-trial, and chambers motions to an experienced federal judge based on materials from actual case files. Assigns some research papers. Limited to 15 third-year students with interest in trial advocacy and willingness to participate in confrontational exercises. Counts as practice hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Offers hands-on experience in the practice of natural resources law in the Rocky Mountain region to a select number of clinic students. The clinic's docket of active cases focuses on public land law and the environmental statutes protecting those lands and their resources. Students participate in projects that test the full range of lawyering skills, including traditional litigation, administrative advocacy, legislative drafting, and the conduct of complex negotiations and settlements. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Offers a clinical education course involving participation in the representation and advocacy of Indian causes -- land or water claims, Indian religious freedom, job or other discrimination based on race, and issues implicating tribal sovereignty. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 7725 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Open only to students who actively participate in the seminar preparing for the competition, in the preparation of memorials for the competition, and in the practice of oral arguments or regional oral arguments.

    Explores the fundamentals of effective negotiation techniques and policies for lawyers. Students engage in mock negotiations of several legal disputes. Credit is not given for both LAWS 7419 Legal Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and this course.

    Examines a variety of dispute resolution processes, such as mediation, arbitration, minitrials, and court-annexed settlement procedures, as alternatives to traditional court adjudication. Credit not given for both LAWS 7419 Legal Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and this course. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Explores mediation, one of the more important methods of alternative dispute resolution, and the legal issues that may arise related to mediation. Considers what kinds of persons and disputes are most appropriate for mediation. Includes role playing.

    Examines the world of child welfare from the view of the child client, by representing their best interests in abuse and neglect cases. As Guardians ad litem, students will represent children in abuse and neglect cases from the beginning, at the temporary shelter hearing, through the conclusion of the case at a permanency orders hearing. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-).
    Student teams further develop trial and advocacy skills in a competitive mock-trial format involving two or more rounds of trials. Requires preparation of trial briefs and drafting other court pleadings and documents. Credit is limited to the top two teams (six students). Student finalists may continue involvement in regional and national competitions. May be repeated within the term up to 4 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Studies the establishment of a solo or small-firm legal practice. Topics include the business structure (PC, LLC, etc.), office systems, marketing and development, staffing, liability insurance, managing time, technology, and billing. (This practice course counts toward the 14 credit hour maximum of practice hours.) Course supported by the Section of Law Practice Management of the ABA in memory of Harold A. Feder, CU Law '59.

    Advise indigent clients who need legal services in the founding of their business or not-for-profit firms, registering LLCs, and drafting employment and intellectual property agreements. Department enforced prereqs., two of the following courses: Agency Partnership and the LLC, Corporations, Securities, Seminar on Corporate Law, Law and Finance for Entrepreneurs, Accounting Issues for Lawyers, Patent Law, Trademark, and International Business Transactions. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

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