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Contract Negotiation - Outsourcing
LAWS 79913
- 01
(3)
s, u, x
This class will provide students with the opportunity to participate in a simulated contract negotiation for the outsourcing of services. Students will be divided into "buyers" and "sellers" and then paired up to draft, review, revise, negotiate and finalize a contract with their opposing counsel partner(s) by the end of the quarter, with a focus on risk assessment and risk mitigation in the contract. Instructors will act as the clients for the two sides of the transaction, providing necessary business and legal guidance to their students/counsel over the course of the simulation. The simulation will require not only in-class participation, but also negotiation sessions to be scheduled by the teams between class meetings. The simulation may begin with a Request for Proposal ("RFP") and/or term sheet, and continue through the drafting and completion of an agreement.
Grades will be based upon class participation (including the ability to work with others in a collaborative and effective manner) and the instructors' review of the final agreement(s) reached by the parties.
Negotiation and drafting of final agreement to memorialize negotiations, plus preparation of a signing memorandum.
Substantial group work outside of class is required.
Winter 2014
David Zarfes, Joan E. Neal
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Contracts and Commercial Transactions
LAWS 91553
- 01
(2 to 3)
s, x
The objective of this course is to familiarize the student with contracts as used by sophisticated parties. Accordingly, this course will explore "real-world" contracts actually entered into by "real-world" companies—the Coca-Cola's, Microsoft's, and HP's of the world. Through this course, the student will attain a certain facility with agreements, their organization and structure, their language, and their provisions (and the interaction of these provisions). In addition to looking at contracts through the eyes of parties and practitioners, the course will pay considerable attention to how courts have treated various contractual provisions, exploring areas of substantive law—including, and in addition to, contract law—to the extent relevant. Readings will include comments from leading practicing attorneys (from law firms such as Sidley, Kirkland, and Cravath, and from legal departments at companies such as Microsoft, Accenture, and JPMorgan).
The student's grade will be based on in-class participation as well as a mid-term exercise and a take-home final exam. The mid-term exercise will involve substantial time spent outside of class negotiating and drafting an agreement and writing a memorandum analyzing this agreement. The take-home final exam will require the student to apply the tools and concepts developed by reviewing and working with contracts throughout this course to an agreement not presented in class or the materials. The course will require substantial out of class work and class participation will count toward the grade. Students will be negotiating and drafting contracts outside of class. This course is highly recommended for those students interested in taking other transactional offerings at the Law School, including (but, of course, not limited to) the Corporate Lab: Transactional Clinic.
A 2-credit option is available with permission from the instructor.
Autumn 2013
David Zarfes
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 01
(3)
+, a, s
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class).Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the course for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class. Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: Amazon, Baxter Healthcare, the Booth School of Business New Venture Challenge (Spring Quarter), GE Capital, Microsoft, Nike, and Verizon Communications.
Winter 2014
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 01
(3)
+, a, s
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class).Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the course for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class. Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: Amazon, Baxter Healthcare, the Booth School of Business New Venture Challenge (Spring Quarter), GE Capital, Microsoft, Nike, and Verizon Communications.
Spring 2014
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 01
(3)
+, a, s, x
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class).Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the course for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class.
Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: Amazon, Baxter Healthcare, the Booth School of Business New Venture Challenge (Spring Quarter), GE Capital, Microsoft, Nike, and Verizon Communications.
Autumn 2013
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 02
(3)
+, a, s
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience, and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class). Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the clinic for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class. Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: Accenture, Allstate, General Mills, Honeywell, IBM, Innova, and Northern Trust. Students will also have the opportunity to work with the ABA Corporate Social Responsibility Committee in the publishing of a quarterly newsletter.
Spring 2014
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 02
(3)
+, a, s
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience, and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class). Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the clinic for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class. Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: Accenture, Allstate, General Mills, Honeywell, IBM, Innova, and Northern Trust. Students will also have the opportunity to work with the ABA Corporate Social Responsibility Committee in the publishing of a quarterly newsletter.
Winter 2014
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 02
(3)
+, a, s, x
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience, and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class). Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the clinic for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class.
Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: Accenture, Allstate, General Mills, Honeywell, IBM, Innova, and Northern Trust. Students will also have the opportunity to work with the ABA Corporate Social Responsibility Committee in the publishing of a quarterly newsletter.
Autumn 2013
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 03
(3)
+, a, s
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience, and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class). Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the clinic for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class.
Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: CDW, Integrys Energy, Italian Trade Commission, JPMorgan Chase, Lincoln Center, McDonald's, Schreiber Foods, Schneider National and Sony Electronics.
Winter 2014
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 03
(3)
+, a, s
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience, and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class). Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the clinic for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class.
Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: CDW, Integrys Energy, Italian Trade Commission, JPMorgan Chase, Lincoln Center, McDonald's, Schreiber Foods, Schneider National and Sony Electronics.
Spring 2014
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Corporate Lab Clinic
LAWS 91562
- 03
(3)
+, a, s, x
This transactional clinic provides students with a forum for working closely with legal and business teams at multinational participant companies. The primary goal of the Corporate Lab is for students to learn practical legal skills, both (a) substantively, in terms of the corporate “building blocks” necessary to understand complex transactions and (b) professionally, in terms of implementing such knowledge efficiently and meaningfully within the context of a wide array of careers as lawyers and business leaders. This class mirrors a real world work experience: students will receive hands-on substantive and client-development experience, and will be expected to manage and meet expectations and deadlines while exercising a high level of professionalism. As a result, this class is likely to involve a significant commitment (with a substantial amount of work to be completed outside of class). Student grades will be based upon participation in the classroom, appropriate attention to client services, collaborative efforts within a team environment, and quality of work product. This offering will not count toward seminar restrictions. Please note that (i) students who register are expected to remain in the clinic for three consecutive quarters, (ii) students may not take the Corporate Lab for more than nine credits, and (iii) LL.M. students may register by instructor permission only. Students will also be required to sign nondisclosure agreements with participating companies. While certainly not a prerequisite, “Contracts and Commercial Transactions” (offered Autumn Quarter) is strongly recommended to all students prior to, or concurrent with, taking this class.
Clients in this section are expected to include some or all of the following: CDW, Integrys Energy, Italian Trade Commission, JPMorgan Chase, Lincoln Center, McDonald's, Schreiber Foods, Schneider National and Sony Electronics.
Autumn 2013
David Zarfes, Sean Z. Kramer, Naveen Thomas, Ellis A. Regenbogen
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Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project Clinic
LAWS 67213
- 01
(1)
+, a, s
The Juvenile and Criminal Justice Clinic provides legal representation to poor children and young adults accused of delinquency and crime. The Clinic is a national leader in expanding the concept of legal representation to include the social, psychological and educational needs of clients. Students will examine the juvenile and criminal justice systems’ relationships to the poor and marginalized through litigation, legislative advocacy, and public education, including the development of policies for crime and violence prevention and system reform. Student work includes legal research and drafting motions, briefs, memoranda, and pleadings in state, appellate and federal courts as required. Students will interview clients and witnesses; conduct fact investigations; and develop effective pre- and post-trial strategies, including alternatives to incarceration. Trial work may include licensed students appearing in court to argue contested motions, negotiate with opposing counsel, and generally second-chair trials. In misdemeanor cases, students may first-chair trials. Licensed students may also present oral argument before appellate and federal courts. All students will participate in community, professional and bar association activities. Students work in teams to foster collaboration and ensure continuity in representation. The Clinic social worker and social work students are involved in many of the cases and activities. All students are encouraged to work creatively, and across disciplines. Participation includes weekly case meetings and obviously court appearances. Students wishing to enroll are encouraged to take Evidence in their second year. Other recommended courses: Criminal Procedure, Juvenile Justice, and Intensive Trial Practice Workshop or Trial Advocacy. Students may continue in the clinic throughout their 2 and 3L years: academic credit varies and will be awarded according to the Law School's general criteria for clinical courses and by the approval of the clinical faculty.
Spring 2014
Herschella G. Conyers, Randolph N. Stone
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Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project Clinic
LAWS 67213
- 01
(1)
+, a, s
The Juvenile and Criminal Justice Clinic provides legal representation to poor children and young adults accused of delinquency and crime. The Clinic is a national leader in expanding the concept of legal representation to include the social, psychological and educational needs of clients. Students will examine the juvenile and criminal justice systems’ relationships to the poor and marginalized through litigation, legislative advocacy, and public education, including the development of policies for crime and violence prevention and system reform. Student work includes legal research and drafting motions, briefs, memoranda, and pleadings in state, appellate and federal courts as required. Students will interview clients and witnesses; conduct fact investigations; and develop effective pre- and post-trial strategies, including alternatives to incarceration. Trial work may include licensed students appearing in court to argue contested motions, negotiate with opposing counsel, and generally second-chair trials. In misdemeanor cases, students may first-chair trials. Licensed students may also present oral argument before appellate and federal courts. All students will participate in community, professional and bar association activities. Students work in teams to foster collaboration and ensure continuity in representation. The Clinic social worker and social work students are involved in many of the cases and activities. All students are encouraged to work creatively, and across disciplines. Participation includes weekly case meetings and obviously court appearances. Students wishing to enroll are encouraged to take Evidence in their second year. Other recommended courses: Criminal Procedure, Juvenile Justice, and Intensive Trial Practice Workshop or Trial Advocacy. Students may continue in the clinic throughout their 2 and 3L years: academic credit varies and will be awarded according to the Law School's general criteria for clinical courses and by the approval of the clinical faculty.
Winter 2014
Herschella G. Conyers, Randolph N. Stone
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Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project Clinic
LAWS 67213
- 01
(1)
+, a, s
The Juvenile and Criminal Justice Clinic provides legal representation to poor children and young adults accused of delinquency and crime. The Clinic is a national leader in expanding the concept of legal representation to include the social, psychological and educational needs of clients. Students will examine the juvenile and criminal justice systems’ relationships to the poor and marginalized through litigation, legislative advocacy, and public education, including the development of policies for crime and violence prevention and system reform. Student work includes legal research and drafting motions, briefs, memoranda, and pleadings in state, appellate and federal courts as required. Students will interview clients and witnesses; conduct fact investigations; and develop effective pre- and post-trial strategies, including alternatives to incarceration. Trial work may include licensed students appearing in court to argue contested motions, negotiate with opposing counsel, and generally second-chair trials. In misdemeanor cases, students may first-chair trials. Licensed students may also present oral argument before appellate and federal courts. All students will participate in community, professional and bar association activities. Students work in teams to foster collaboration and ensure continuity in representation. The Clinic social worker and social work students are involved in many of the cases and activities. All students are encouraged to work creatively, and across disciplines. Participation includes weekly case meetings and obviously court appearances. Students wishing to enroll are encouraged to take Evidence in their second year. Other recommended courses: Criminal Procedure, Juvenile Justice, and Intensive Trial Practice Workshop or Trial Advocacy. Students may continue in the clinic throughout their 2 and 3L years: academic credit varies and will be awarded according to the Law School's general criteria for clinical courses and by the approval of the clinical faculty.
Autumn 2013
Herschella G. Conyers, Randolph N. Stone
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Developing Law Practice Skills through the Study of National Security Issues
LAWS 70703
- 01
(3)
+, m, s, x
My purpose is to help students improve the skills required for successful law practice (regardless of setting) through the analysis and oral and written presentation of current national security issues (such as Presidential power, indefinite incarceration, assassination, electronic surveillance and cyberwarfare).
Students will form teams of 2-4 persons.
Each team will present its analysis of a topic to the class, which will be expected to participate on an informed basis.
Substantial out of classroom work is required. Each student team will prepare a 2 hour presentation/discussion of its selected topic, and prepare to help lead the class discussion. Each team will also jointly prepare a short research paper (10-12 pp.) summarizing its analysis of the selected topic.
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law or equivalent.
Spring 2014
Robert A. Helman
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Divorce Practice and Procedure
LAWS 93202
- 01
(3)
+, s, u, w, x
This class provides an exposure to the dynamic process of representing clients in a dissolution of marriage case. The class will familiarize you with the complexities that arise when a family is divided and the parties are dissolving their marriage. Topics are covered in the sequence of an evolving case from the perspective of a practicing lawyer and include determination of jurisdiction, interstate and international parental kidnapping, domestic violence and property injunctions, temporary and permanent child custody and visitation, temporary and permanent maintenance for spouse and support for children, awards of attorneys’ fees and costs, exploration of property rights and factors for determining division of assets and liabilities, the valuation issues when dividing certain types of property, premarital agreements, common ethical issues, federal tax aspects of marital dissolution, effects of bankruptcy and civil unions/same-sex marriage.
Significant reading, writing and preparation for in-class discussions is required.
Forty percent of the student’s grade is based on class participation, and sixty percent on the drafting of legal memoranda.
Writing for this class may be used as partial fulfillment of the JD writing requirement (WP).
Completion of a basic Family Law class is recommended but not required.
Autumn 2013
Erika N. Chen-Walsh
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Drafting Contacts: The Problem of Ambiguity
LAWS 79910
- 01
(2)
m, s, x
This seminar is unique. It is a very interesting, very intellectual, and very practical learning experience. The main features are: 1. Students will learn some extremely useful tools for analyzing and drafting contracts. They will acquire them by an inductive process of reviewing many examples of ambiguity from case law, eminent legal scholars, and the lecturer’s practice. They will learn to identify and eliminate ambiguity in drafting contracts. These tools are the creation of the lecturer and will give students unique practical skills that no other American law students (except the lecturer’s prior students) have. 2. The course materials come from the in-house seminars for the firm’s China Practice lawyers that the lecturer conducted for many years as a partner at Baker & McKenzie and that established the profession’s best practices for China-related contracts. 3. The historical examples of ambiguity in the seminar are of human, as well as intellectual, interest. They show that ambiguity can lead to the hanging of an individual for piracy or treason, a damages award of more than U.S. $10 billion, and even a change in the course of World War II. 4. The seminar facilitates student learning. At the beginning of each class, an audience response system (called “clickers”) provides students immediate, comparative, and anonymous feedback on their understanding of the reading assignment. The seminar also allows each student to see what he or she has learned in the seminar by comparing his or her analysis of a specific contract for the first class and for the last class. This contract analysis, like the final exam, gives each student the experience of a practicing lawyer reviewing a contract.
Grades will be based on a proctored final exam.
Winter 2014
Preston Torbert
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Employment Law Clinic
LAWS 67113
- 01
(1)
+, a, s, w
Randall D. Schmidt and his students operate the Clinic's Employment Law Clinic. The Clinic focuses primarily on pre-trial litigation and handles a number of individual cases and class actions. In individual cases, the Clinic represents clients in cases before the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Illinois Human Rights Commission and seeks to obtain relief for clients from race, sex, national origin, and handicap discrimination in the work place. In the class actions, the Clinic represents groups of employees in employment and civil rights actions in federal court. Additionally, in its individual cases and law reform/impact cases, the Clinic seeks to improve the procedures and remedies available to victims of employment discrimination so that employees have a fair opportunity to present their claims in a reasonably expeditious way. To accomplish this goal, the Clinic is active in the legislative arena and participates with other civil rights groups in efforts to amend and improve state and federal laws. It is suggested, but not required, that all students in the Employment Law Clinic take the Employment Discrimination Law seminar.
It is recommended that third-year students take, prior to their third year, either the Intensive Trial Practice Workshop or some other trial practice course. The student's grade is based on class participation. Academic credit varies and will be awarded according to the Law School's general criteria for clinical courses as described in the Law School Announcements and by the approval of the clinical faculty. Evidence is a prerequisite for 3L's in the clinic. The Intensive Trial Practice Workshop (or an equivalent trial practice course) is recommended for 3L's in the clinic.
Winter 2014
Randall D. Schmidt
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Employment Law Clinic
LAWS 67113
- 01
(1)
+, a, s, w
Randall D. Schmidt and his students operate the Clinic's Employment Law Clinic. The Clinic focuses primarily on pre-trial litigation and handles a number of individual cases and class actions. In individual cases, the Clinic represents clients in cases before the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Illinois Human Rights Commission and seeks to obtain relief for clients from race, sex, national origin, and handicap discrimination in the work place. In the class actions, the Clinic represents groups of employees in employment and civil rights actions in federal court. Additionally, in its individual cases and law reform/impact cases, the Clinic seeks to improve the procedures and remedies available to victims of employment discrimination so that employees have a fair opportunity to present their claims in a reasonably expeditious way. To accomplish this goal, the Clinic is active in the legislative arena and participates with other civil rights groups in efforts to amend and improve state and federal laws. It is suggested, but not required, that all students in the Employment Law Clinic take the Employment Discrimination Law seminar.
It is recommended that third-year students take, prior to their third year, either the Intensive Trial Practice Workshop or some other trial practice course. The student's grade is based on class participation. Academic credit varies and will be awarded according to the Law School's general criteria for clinical courses as described in the Law School Announcements and by the approval of the clinical faculty. Evidence is a prerequisite for 3L's in the clinic. The Intensive Trial Practice Workshop (or an equivalent trial practice course) is recommended for 3L's in the clinic.
Autumn 2013
Randall D. Schmidt
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Employment Law Clinic
LAWS 67113
- 01
(1)
+, a, s, w
Randall D. Schmidt and his students operate the Clinic's Employment Law Clinic. The Clinic focuses primarily on pre-trial litigation and handles a number of individual cases and class actions. In individual cases, the Clinic represents clients in cases before the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Illinois Human Rights Commission and seeks to obtain relief for clients from race, sex, national origin, and handicap discrimination in the work place. In the class actions, the Clinic represents groups of employees in employment and civil rights actions in federal court. Additionally, in its individual cases and law reform/impact cases, the Clinic seeks to improve the procedures and remedies available to victims of employment discrimination so that employees have a fair opportunity to present their claims in a reasonably expeditious way. To accomplish this goal, the Clinic is active in the legislative arena and participates with other civil rights groups in efforts to amend and improve state and federal laws. It is suggested, but not required, that all students in the Employment Law Clinic take the Employment Discrimination Law seminar.
It is recommended that third-year students take, prior to their third year, either the Intensive Trial Practice Workshop or some other trial practice course. The student's grade is based on class participation. Academic credit varies and will be awarded according to the Law School's general criteria for clinical courses as described in the Law School Announcements and by the approval of the clinical faculty. Evidence is a prerequisite for 3L's in the clinic. The Intensive Trial Practice Workshop (or an equivalent trial practice course) is recommended for 3L's in the clinic.
Spring 2014
Randall D. Schmidt
