Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Whitney Heard (CLINICAL FACULTY [405(b)])
Credits: 2
Course Areas: 1st Year - Section C
Time: 1:00p-2:00p T 2:00p-3:00p TH Location: 211
Course Outline: Course Outline: Lawyering Skills and Strategies II will focus on legal writing in litigation and transactional contexts and the skills and strategic planning lawyers must possess to succeed within actual lawyering experiences. The curriculum will be problem – based, using fact-pattern simulations to enable students to work through actual practice skills and strategies and ethical issues. Training in essential lawyering skills such as oral communication, legal writing, research, and analysis will be embedded within fact pattern simulations involving typical litigation and transactional issues that students will work through to develop lawyering skills and problem-solving strategies. Students at times will be assigned to represent opposing sides of the problem.
Course Syllabus: Course Information Sheet and 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: Book Required - see below
Required Textbooks: The required books for Spring 2025 include the following:
1) Persuasive Advocacy in Action: A Workbook for Law Students, by Robin Boyle-Laisure and Laura P. Graham. (https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531026929/Persuasive-Advocacy-in-Action) The ISBN is 978-1-5310-2692-9, and the eISBN is 978-1-5310-2693-6. Students should purchase the print version of this text.
2) An Introduction to Contract Drafting (2d ed. 2013), by William K. Sjostrom, Jr. (https://www.westacademic.com/Sjostroms-An-Introduction-to-Contract-Drafting-2d-9780314287236). The ISBN is 9780314287236. Students may purchase or rent a print or eBook version of this text.
3) The Greenbook: Texas Rules of Form (15th ed. 2022). (https://texaslawjournals.directfrompublisher.com/catalog/book/texas-rules-form-greenbook) The ISBN is 978-1-878674-11-1. Students should have a print version of The Greenbook.
4) The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020), published by the Harvard Law Review Association. (https://www.legalbluebook.com/buy) The ISBN is 978-0-578-66615-0. Students should have a print version of The Bluebook.
Recommended Textbook: The recommended book for Spring 2025 is the following:
Manual on Usage & Style (15th ed. 2020), published by the Texas Law Review Association. (https://law.utexas.edu/publications/books/manual-on-usage-and-style-mous/) The ISBN is 1-878674-59-5. Students may buy the print version or eBook version of this text.
