Suffolk Law Summer 2018 Student Handbook

Interviewing and Counseling and Negotiation for Lawyers or Interviewing and Counseling/Negotiation Process Improvement and Legal Project Management Electives:

Students must take at least two courses from among the following currently offered courses:

Administrative Law Consumer Protection Disability Law Employment Law or Employment Discrimination Conveyancing Housing Discrimination Law, Theory & Practice Basic Federal Income Tax Drafting Wills and Trusts Estate Planning Immigration Law Mental Health Issues in Civil and Criminal Law Practice Ready: Personal Injury Litigation Pre-Trial Civil Litigation Trial Advocacy Trusts and Estates Family Law Bankruptcy

Workers Compensation Massachusetts Practice

(The above courses may not be available in every semester or year.)

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Accelerator-to-Practice Experiential Training

Students will engage in a cumulative series of supervised work experiences to prepare them to be competent practitioners upon graduation. One or more of these will be in an imbedded income generating law practice, to provide legal services to average income individuals and families, while teaching students how to engage in the skilled, ethical, reflective and sustainable practice of law. The Accelerator Practice is a fee-for-services practice, replicating existing successful business models focused on alternate fee structures and cases providing for recovery of attorneys’ fees and costs. Student learning will include critical practice management tools in accounting and billing, marketing, external controls (financial auditing and effectiveness assessments) and other business competencies. The goal is that through the Accelerator Practice, students will learn a replicable model for building a sustainable and profitable practice.

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