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LAW 610L
LAW 610L
Trial Practice Lab
Fall 2024 Spring 2025
Credits: 2 hours
Offered In: Fall 2024 | Spring 2025
Program: jd | llm
Satisfies: JD: Experiential Learning

A series of lecture/discussion and lab classes devoted to the study of examining witnesses and trying cases that includes the following topics: pretrial motions, jury selection, opening statement, direct and cross-examination, impeachment, laying foundations for exhibits, and closing arguments. Students learn how to separate fact from argument, how to mine and polish facts, and how to examine witnesses and introduce exhibits, which are critical skills in both depositions and trials. Each element of trial is studied in discrete weekly lecture/discussion and lab classes that culminate in a final mock jury trial with a presiding judge and jurors in the box. P-LAW 207.

Offered In

Fall 2024

Spring 2025