Fall 2024
Professor(s):
Maleaha Brown (CLINICAL FACULTY [405(b)])
Credits: 3
Course Areas: 1st Year - Section A
Time: 2:30p-4:00p TTH Location: 222
Course Outline: Lawyering Skills and Strategies I will focus on an introduction to the American legal system and the underlying skills and strategies lawyers must possess to succeed within it. By working through problems inside and outside of the classroom, you will learn to identify legal issues; gather initial facts from the client; locate and assess the governing law; analyze legal issues within the context of particular fact patterns; cite to the governing law; and write clear and concise documents that communicate your legal analysis. And, in all matters, you will be expected to uphold the ethical and professional standards of a lawyer-in-training.
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.
This incoming full time faculty member is starting at the UH Law Center with courses in the fall of 2024. Here is a link to current information about this courses’ instructor:
https://www.swlaw.edu/faculty/full-time/maleaha-l-brown
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 11/22/20249-12pm 102B
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
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: ? A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis (3d ed. 2018) by Christine Coughlin, Joan Malmud Rocklin & Sandy Patrick (“A Lawyer Writes”). You may purchase or rent a print or e-book version of this text. ? The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020), published by the Harvard Law Review Association (“Bluebook”). The recommended course materials are listed below. ? Manual on Usage & Style (15th ed. 2020) published by the Texas Law Review.
