Writing and Editing for Lawyers

This course is designed to offer an intensive writing experience to improve students’ legal analysis, writing, and editing skills.  Students will be required to write legal memoranda responsive to legal and factual questions.  Students will practice written analysis and organization.  Students will learn how to write sentences that are accurate, brief, clear, and precise.  Further, the rules of grammar, punctuation, usage, tone, and style will be reinforced. This course is graded on a pass/fail basis, but does not count toward the one pass/fail course a student may take as described in the Pass-Fail Rules.