Planning your course of study. Wake Forest School of Law March 2012

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1 Planning your course of study Wake Forest School of Law March 2012

2 The Basics ( 90 hours 1 st year required courses: all first year courses (29 hours) 2d year required courses: Leg and Admin Law LAWR III App Adv; Bus Drafting LAWR Commercial Drafting LAWR Legal Writing for Judicial Chambers LAWR (spring) Litigation Drafting (spring)

3 Required courses Con Law II Evidence PR Other requirements 2d or 3d year Practical Skills (also Applied Learning courses) ULWR words; rough draft with comments before final

4 COURSES THAT WILL SATISFY THE PRACTICAL SKILLS REQUIREMENT 408 Commercial Leasing 610 Trial Practice 414 Energy Law 611 Advanced Trial Practice 415 Intellectual Property Licensing 617 Advanced Family Law: Case Study 420 Business Drafting LAWR 622 Innocence and Justice Clinic 425 Commercial Drafting LAWR 625 Suing Government 426 Prosecution Seminar 628 Business Planning 427 Legal Writing for Judicial Chambers LAWR 632 Real Estate Transaction Seminar 540 Judicial Externship 639 Metropolitan Externship 541 Business Drafting 645 Mediation 548 Appellate Advocacy Clinic 649 Analytical Methods for Lawyers 553 Litigation Drafting 667 Business Litigation 563 Child Advocacy Clinic 565 Dispute Resolution 570 Pre-Trial Practice and Procedure 600 Negotiation 601 Community Law and Business Clinic 603 Litigation Clinic 604 Elder Law Clinic 606 Advanced Legal Research 609 Law Practice Management

5 COURSES THAT WILL SATISFY THE UPPER-LEVEL WRITING REQUIREMENT 403 Conflict of Laws 411 Law, Business, and the American Economy 413 Selected Topics in Social Science 417 Art and Cultural Property Law 421 Legal History: Selected Topics 423 Corporate Governance Law Policy & Theory 424 Higher Education Law 422 Advanced Administrative Law 500 Criminal Procedure: Selected Topics 501 International Law 502 Jurisprudence 504 International Civil Litigation 507 Poverty Law 510 State and Local Government 512 Environmental Law 519 Law, Literature, and Culture 525 Health Care Law and Policy 530 Natural Resources 535 Legal History American 541 Business Drafting ULWR 542 Taxation: International

6 544 Taxation Policy 642 Animal Law 545 Patent Law 654 Civil Rights Remedies 552 Education Law 647 Gender and the Law 557 Taxation: Corporate Reorganizations 651 Sexual Identity and the Law 558 Immigration Law: Selected Topics 656 International Environmental Law 561 Corporations: Advanced Topics 657 Biotechnology Law and Policy 565 Dispute Resolution 668 Public Administration and Regulatory 566 National Security Law Law 567 Law and Economics 572 European Union Law In addition, courses taken during our summer 578 Race and the Law programs in London, Venice, or Vienna will 581 Native American Law often satisfy the writing requirement. 583 Comparative Law 584 Freedom of Religion Under the Constitution 589 Law and Valuation 590 Comparative Constitutional Law 594 Bioethics 602 The Civil Law Tradition 623 Great Jurists Seminar 624 Humanistic Dimensions of Contractual Relations 626 Church, Law, and Ethics 632 Real Estate Transactions Seminar 638 Social Science, Race, and the Law

7 Remember pass fail hours 7 hours Exception: Metropolitan Externship Courses with P designation on Courses Offered list; also on Dean s Registration Memo Journal participation Moot court team Independent Study Judicial Externship Summer school at another law school

8 Bar courses Business Organizations Criminal Procedure Family Law Equitable and Legal Remedies Decedents Estates and Trusts Sales Secured Transactions

9 Courses for various areas of practice Curriculum Committee Advising Guide Practice Areas

10 Watch for prerequisites Clinics Open to 1 st semester 2L s Child Advocacy Clinic No pre- or co-requisite For others: second semester 2L or a 3L Litigation Evidence; Trial Practice as a co-requisite Appellate Advocacy Clinic App Adv Community Law and Business Elder Law 2d semester 3L: Metropolitan Externship. Have completed all requirements so no prerequisites

11 Other prerequisites For Bankruptcy: Debtor Creditor For Real World Lawyering: Bus Organizations Securities Regulation: Bus Organizations Specialized tax courses: Federal Income Tax

12 Summer school courses First session (May 29 - June 29) Second session (July 10 - August 10) Debtor-Creditor (Nickles)(online format; evenings) Bankruptcy (Nickles)(online format; evenings) Evidence (C. Rose) Health and Medical Research for Lawyers (E. Johnson) Independent Study Judicial Externship (Anderson) Wrongful Convictions (Rabil)(field component) Constitutional Law II (Gilreath) Independent Study Judicial Externship (Anderson) Non-Profit Organization Law (Virgil)(field component) Professional Responsibility (Murphy)(online format; evenings)