Fall 2024
Professor(s):
Whitney Heard (CLINICAL FACULTY [405(b)])
Credits: 3
Course Areas: 1st Year - Section B
Time: TH- 10:30a-12:00p T- 1:00p-2:30p Location: 260
Course Outline: In Lawyering Skills and Strategies I you will develop the following essential lawyering skills: Identifying and analyzing legal issues; conducting legal research; and writing real world legal documents. In contrast to other 1L classes, in LSS you will not learn law in the abstract. Rather, you will learn how to use the substantive law you are learning in your other classes in practice. This results in several immediate benefits to you. You will learn skills that make you a better law student. You will prepare writing samples necessary for judicial internship and law firm summer clerkship applications. And you will learn and hone the research, writing, and oral communications skills employers demand. Some writing and revising will be completed in class. I will assign limited outside reading so that you can complete other writing and revising outside of class. I will be mindful of your time.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Required Course)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: 1) A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis (4th ed. 2024) by Christine Coughlin, Joan Malmud Rocklin & Sandy Patrick. Students may purchase or rent a paper or e-book version of this text. 2) The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020), published by the Harvard Law Review Association. Students must purchase the print book: they should not purchase an online subscription for the Bluebook.
1) ISBN 978-1-5310-2069-9 or eISBN 978-1-5310-2070-5
2) ISBN: 978-0-578-66615-0
The recommended course materials: Manual on Usage & Style (15th ed. 2020) published by the Texas Law Review. ISBN: 9781878674593
