Nov 23, 2024  
PUBLISHED 2024-2025 Credit Catalog 
    
PUBLISHED 2024-2025 Credit Catalog

LEGL 300 - Legal Writing II


Description
This course continues on from the previous legal writing course and focuses on advanced writing skills required by legal assistants in order to meet the legal industry’s needs. Students will be provided with practical guidelines for developing legal documents in plain language. The course will emphasize the fundamentals of drafting, including word selection, sentence structure, and the use of plain English in preparing routine legal documents. Students will draft and edit short and long letters, as well as complex legal documents. Participants will explore the fundamentals of legal research and citation guidelines. Debate skills will be introduced by preparing for and participating in a debate.

3 Credits

Prerequisites
One of:

  • LEGL 250
  • OADM 362