This course is INACTIVE
School
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Professional Development
Division
Business & Economics
Department
Paralegal
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Paralegal
Course Number
225
Course Title
Legal Writing
Credit Hours
3.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
47.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
47.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
A-E
Pre-requisites
PLGL 125 and ENG 131 - both with a C grade or better
Catalog Course Description
Explores how to identify complex legal issues and research them using electronic research tools. Covers how to synthesize multiple sources of law, draft a comprehensive statement of current law, and then apply that law to a hypothetical fact scenario. Also covers presenting results in an objective memorandum and/or a persuasive brief.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
Core Course Topics
- Identification of Legal Issues
- Identify and analyze complex legal issues from real and hypothetical fact scenarios.*
- Legal Research
- Develop strategies for advanced legal research using computer-assisted research tools.*
- Validation
- Validate findings.
- Legal Synthesis
- Synthesize and apply multiple sources of law relevant to a complex real or hypothetical fact scenario.*
- Memoranda
- Draft accurate and concise issue statements, rules of law, and analysis and conclusions of law.*
- Apply synthesized law to a complex real or hypothetical fact scenario.*
- Draft objective memoranda of law using appropriate legal writing style.*
- Brief*
- Draft accurate and concise issue statements, rules of law, and conclusions of law.*
- Apply synthesized law to a complex real or hypothetical fact scenario.*
- Draft persuasive legal brief using appropriate legal writing style.*
- Legal Citation
- Properly cite findings.
- Ethics
- Evaluate the ethical considerations of the paralegal in the legal research process.*
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of Academic Achievement
Students will be assessed through quizzes, tests, in-class and out-of-class assignments, drafting assignments, and/or class participation.
Approval Dates
Effective Term
Winter 2016