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COURSE ENROLLMENT CAPACITY:
- All Seminars are limited to 15 students.
- Appellate Advocacy is limited to 18 students.
- General Practice is limited to 20 students.
- Legal Drafting Practicum is limited to 20 students (4 sections available).
- Litigation Clinic is limited to 20 students.
- Mediation Clinic only meets once for an initial orientation session and is limited to 7 students.
- Mediation, Negotiation, Dispute Resolution and Divorce Mediation is limited to 30 students.
- Trial Advocacy is limited to 16 students.
- Legal Drafting Practicum is limited to 25 students (4 sections available).
- Any other class with fewer than 10 students enrolled will be cancelled.
BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS: Considered a second year day and third year evening course; registration priority will be given to those students. Students entering their third year day and fourth year evening will be permitted to register for Business Associations only after the second year day and third year evening students have registered.
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT: Significant research paper or an independent research project under the guidance of a member of the full-time Faculty. A student may not register for independent research until the student provides a written proposal, tentative outline, and tentative hypothesis accepted by a full time faculty member. A student may not register for more than one independent research project in a semester, or for more than six total hours of independent research credit, without the approval of the Associate Dean. Independent Research may be used to satisfy the Upper-class Writing Requirement.
LEGAL DRAFTING COURSES (LAW 633)
- LEGAL DRAFTING: Civil Litigation (633: A) – Professor Jeff Snapp: This section of legal drafting focuses on the practice of law in civil courts. Students will draft a Complaint, an Answer, and a Discovery Motion based on a case file developed throughout the semester.
- LEGAL DRAFTING: Criminal Law (633: B) – Professor Scott Anderson: Students in this section draft documents commonly used in prosecuting or representing criminal defendants. These documents include a Bill of Particulars, a Motion to Suppress Evidence, an Indictment, and a Negotiated Guilty Plea.
- LEGAL DRAFTING: Selected Issues (633: C) – Professor Risa Lazaroff: This class requires the Selected Issues: Biotechnology & Reproduction course (Professor Angela Upchurch) as a co-requisite. Students will draft documents related to the substantive issues learned in the Reproductive Rights course, including a Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, and a Consent Decree.
- LEGAL DRAFTING: Transactional (633: M) – Professor Tom Brown: In the Transactional Drafting course, students negotiate the terms of a contract, and draft the resulting contract based on the terms agreed upon. Emphasis is placed on the role of the contract drafter and the precision required in drafting contracts and leases.
LITIGATION CLINIC: All students who take litigation clinic may register for 2 or 3 credit hours. If you wish to register for more than 3 hours, you must get permission from Professor Danny Bank or Professor Lori McCaughan. Bring your Change of Registration form signed by the Professor to the Office of Records & Registration and the office will make the change. The Litigation Clinic requires a valid Ohio Intern's License (see instructions below). Students admitted prior to fall 2006 must have completed 58 credit hours (including Evidence) to be certified as eligible. Students admitted fall 2006 or after must have completed 60 credit hours in order to be eligible for a valid Ohio Intern’s License. PLEASE NOTE: Clinic will meet for the first regularly scheduled class. Beginning the next day, for seven (7) consecutive days, the class will meet from 7:30 am to 9:00 am (excluding weekends and holidays). These classes are mandatory. Thereafter, Clinic will meet approximately seven (7) additional times at the regularly scheduled day and time.
MEDIATION CLINIC: A clinical experience for students who have already completed the Mediation course as a prerequisite. Students will complete "some" classroom work, but they will spend the majority of time mediating disputes in a variety of settings. S tudents will conduct and/or observe pre-scheduled mediation sessions at the Franklin County Municipal Court, the City Prosecutor’s Office, and The Supreme Court of Ohio. Mediations may be scheduled during the day time or evening hours and may require attendance at different locations. The classroom work involving general skills training in the techniques needed to conduct mediation. Additional training and classroom work will focus on subject areas that will assist the student in performing his/her role as a mediator. There is "no" regular class time set for this course. “Classroom” sessions will be scheduled based on student availability. NOTE: Each student will have a different “mediation” schedule that she/he will specifically coordinate with the professor. This schedule can be a set time for the entire semester, or it change from week to week as the professor and student determine. There is a lot of flexibility in determining this schedule. After completing the Mediation Clinic for 3 credit hours, students may petition to take an additional semester of Mediation Clinic for 1, 2 or 3 credits hours
OHIO INTERNS’ LICENSE: If you began in 2006 or later, you need to have earned 60 credit hours. There are NO exceptions for this requirement. Application forms are located at the Office of Records and Registration.
VARIABLE CREDIT COURSES: If you are planning to take one of the courses below, please make sure you affirmatively choose the number of credit hours you plan to take. Each default to a specific number (listed below). If you do not change it to a different number, you will be registered for the default number.
- Externships – 2 credits is the default. If you wish to register for 3, you must manually change the credit hours.
- General Litigation Clinic – 2 credits is the default. If you wish to register for 3, you must manually change the credit hours.
- Independent Research – 1 credit is the default. If you wish to register for 2 or 3, you must manually change the credit hours.
OTHER NOTES :
- Students must have the Moot Court Advisor’s permission to register for any of the Moot Courts.
- Where multiple sections of courses are offered, day students must register for the day sections and evening students must register for the evening sections during the advanced registration period. This does not include seminars. After the advanced registration period, “open registration” begins and day students may register for available spots in the evening sections and vise versa.
