Registration Guide 2017-2018

Skills Menu Students who entered prior to Fall 2015 are required to take one course from the Skills Menu. The purpose of the Skills requirement is to assist students in developing skills required to successfully perform lawyering tasks, such as problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, legal research, factual investigation, communication, counseling, negotiation, litigation and alternative dispute resolution procedures, organization and management of legal work, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas in practice.

All Clinics and Legal Externships Accelerator-to-Practice Program Advanced Legal Research – Tax

Intl Public Interest (Semester in practice)

Interviewing and Counseling

Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation

Advanced Legal Writing

Investment Management

Appellate Practice

Labor and Employment Arbitration

Arbitration of Domestic and Intl Disputes

Lawyering/Smart Machines

Business of Practice Business Planning

Mediation

Mediation Skills Training (Intersession)

Coding the Law

Negotiation

Commercial Lending and Finance Practicum

Negotiating Business Transactions

Community Lawyering Seminar Compliance Practice Seminar

Negotiation and Mediation Issues Seminar Patent Litigation Practice Patent Prosecution I: Drafting Patent Prosecution II: PTO Practice

Decision Making and Choice Management

Design Thinking (Intersession)

Drafting Intellectual Property Licenses

Personal Injury Litigation Planning: Law as a Career

Drafting Wills and Trusts

E-Discovery Law

Practice Ready: Fee Shifting Cases Practice Ready Legal Research

Employment Law Practice Energy, Natural Resources

Pretrial Civil Litigation

Entrepreneurship

Private Placements/VC Practicum

Environmental Law Seminar

Problem Solving

Federal Indian Law

Process Improvement State Criminal Practice Statutory Interpretation

Forensics (Intersession)

Housing Discrimination Law

Human Rights Project Human Rights Survey

Transactional Skills/Contract Drafting

Trial Advocacy

Intellectual Property Transaction Skills Intl and Comparative Legal Research

Trial Advocacy: Intensive

Twenty First Century Legal Profession Urban Mechanics: Boston Practicum

Intl Legal Practice (externship)