Chicago-Kent College of Law Viewbook - (Page 49) Legal Writing Program To a large extent, your success as a lawyer will depend on your writing skills. Chicago-Kent was the first law school in the United States to develop a three-year legal research and writing curriculum, and our program is widely acknowledged as one of the best in the nation. Even before you graduate, you’ll be thoroughly prepared to excel in summer clerkships, externships and whatever other practice opportunities you may choose to explore. In your first semester, you’ll learn about sources of law and the significance of legal precedent. As you learn the fundamentals of legal research, you’ll begin to analyze and synthesize case law for writing legal memoranda to predict how the law will apply in particular cases. In your second semester, you’ll learn advocacy through persuasive legal writing of trial and appellate briefs and through oral argument. You’ll move on in subsequent terms to transactional writing and finally to advanced writing courses offered in several specialized areas of law. www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw What’s What 48 | 49 http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw
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