1.13 Professional Skills Requirement
Before graduation, all students must successfully complete one or more classes that have been approved by the Law School’s Committee on Professional Skills Development as fulfilling the professional skills requirement set by the Accreditation Committee of the American Bar Association.
The following classes that satisfy the professional skills requirement are currently scheduled to be offered during the 2012-13 academic year:
- Abrams Environmental Law Clinic
- Accounting and Financial Analysis for Debt and Equity Markets and Transaction Structuring
- Advanced Legal Research
- Advanced Legal Writing
- Brief-writing and Appellate Advocacy Seminar
- Civil Rights Clinic: Police Accountability
- Closing a Deal: Structuring and Documentation of a Secured Loan Transaction
- Commercial Real Estate Transactions
- Commercial Transactions - Negotiation, Drafting, and Analysis
- Complex Litigation
- Complex Mental Health Litigation Clinic
- Constitutional Decisionmaking
- Contract Drafting and Review
- Contract Negotiation: Outsourcing
- Contracts and Commercial Transactions
- Corporate Lab: Transactional Clinic
- Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project Clinic
- Developing Law Practice Skills through the Study of National Security Issues
- Divorce Practice and Procedure
- Drafting Contracts: The Problem of Ambiguity
- Employment Discrimination Clinic
- Entrepreneurship and the Law
- Exoneration Project Clinic
- Federal Criminal Justice Clinic
- Fundamentals of Accounting for Attorneys
- Gendered Violence and the Law Clinic
- Housing Initiative Clinic
- Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship
- Intensive Trial Practice Workshop
- International Arbitration
- International Human Rights Clinic
- Law and Practice of Zoning, Land Use, and Eminent Domain
- Leadership
- Legal Elements of Accounting
- Litigation Laboratory
- Mental Health Advocacy Clinic
- Mental Health Litigation Clinic
- Negotiation and Mediation
- Post Incarceration Reentry Clinic
- Poverty and Housing Law Clinic
- Pre-Trial Advocacy
- Private Equity Transactions: Issues and Documentation
- Prosecution and Defense Clinic
- Secured Lender Remedies and Workout Transactions
- Strategies and Processes of Negotiations
- Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions
- Trial Advocacy
- Young Center Immigrant Child Advocacy Clinic
Please note that this list is subject to change. For up-to-date information, please see the online course listing at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/courses.