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2018-2019 Catalog: Undergraduate, Graduate, and College of Law [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LAW 7118 - Judicial Clerkship Bootcamp

1.0-1.0
7118. 1 hour. This course focuses on fine-tuning one¿s the writing abilities in advance of serving as a judicial law clerk or judicial law intern. The class will culminate with a bench memo not exceeding 10 double-spaced pages. Most of the reading for the class will consist of materials relating to the writing assignments, including attorneys¿ briefing, relevant portions of the record, and key precedents. The course will also provide students with practical information about how to be an effective law clerk, drawing heavily on guest speakers and panelists, including local federal and state judges and law clerks. The course will be pass/fail.