Practice: Clinical and Simulation
LAWS 6009-4. Civil Practice Clinic 1. Emphasizes procedural and practical remedies and defenses available in civil litigation. Assigns civil cases related to the course material. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prereq. or coreq., LAWS 6353.
LAWS 6019-4. Civil Practice Clinic 2. Emphasizes procedural and practical remedies and defenses available in civil litigation. Assigns civil cases related to the course material. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prereq. or coreq., LAWS 6353.
LAWS 6029-4. Criminal Defense Clinic 1. Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants in Boulder courts. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prereq. or coreq., LAWS 6353.
LAWS 6039-4. Criminal Defense Clinic 2. Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants in Boulder courts. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prereq. or coreq., LAWS 6353.
LAWS 6079-4. Criminal Defense Clinic. Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills, advocacy, and evidence presentation. Concludes with full mock trial. Prereq. or coreq., LAWS 6353.
LAWS 6109-2. Trial Advocacy. Focuses on voir dire, opening statement, direct examination of witnesses, and cross examination.
LAWS 7029-3. Appellate Advocacy Clinic. Provides a clinical course that enables students to work on briefs of criminal cases being handled by the Appellate Division of the Public Defender or Attorney General’s Office. Instruction in oral advocacy is given. Enrollment limited to eight students.
LAWS 7106 (1-2). Rothgerber Moot Court Competition. Offers an intensive involvement in legal research, appellate brief writing, and oral arguments in a competitive context. Student finalists may continue involvement in regional and national competitions.
LAWS 7159-2. Advanced Trial Advocacy. Offers an advanced course covering trial practice elements. Open only to students who have taken LAWS 6109.
LAWS 7169-2. Motions Advocacy. Provides practical training in preparing and arguing pretrial, post-trial, and chambers motions to an experienced federal judge based on materials from actual case files. Assigns some research papers. Limited to 15 third-year students with interest in trial advocacy and willingness to participate in confrontational exercises. Counts as practice hours.
LAWS 7209-3. Natural Resources Litigation Clinic. Offers hands-on experience in the practice of natural resources law in the Rocky Mountain region to a select number of clinic students. The clinic’s docket of active cases focuses on public land law and the environmental statutes protecting those lands and their resources. Students participate in projects that test the full range of lawyering skills, including traditional litigation, administrative advocacy, legislative drafting, and the conduct of complex negotiations and settlements.
LAWS 7309 (2-4). American Indian Law Clinic. Offers a clinical education course involving participation in the representation and advocacy of Indian causes—land or water claims, Indian religious freedom, job or other discrimination based on race, and issues implicating tribal sovereignty. Recommended prereq., LAWS 7725.
LAWS 7406-1. International Moot Court Competition. Open only to students who actively participate in the seminar preparing for the competition, in the preparation of memorials for the competition, and in the practice of oral arguments or regional oral arguments.
LAWS 7409-3. Legal Negotiation. Explores the fundamentals of effective negotiation techniques and policies for lawyers. Students engage in mock negotiations of several legal disputes. Credit is not given for both LAWS 7419 Legal Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and this course.
LAWS 7429-2. Alternative Dispute Resolution. Examines a variety of dispute resolution processes, such as mediation, arbitration, minitrials, and court-annexed settlement procedures, as alternatives to traditional court adjudication. Credit not given for both LAWS 7419 Legal Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and this course.
LAWS 7439-2. Mediation. Explores mediation, one of the more important methods of alternative dispute resolution, and the legal issues that may arise related to mediation. Considers what kinds of persons and disputes are most appropriate for mediation. Includes role playing.
LAWS 7449-4. Juvenile Law Clinic. Examines the world of child welfare from the view of the child client, by representing their best interests in abuse and neglect cases. As Guardians ad litem, students will represent children in abuse and neglect cases from the beginning, at the temporary shelter hearing, through the conclusion of the case at a permanency orders hearing. Prereq., LAWS 6353. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours.
LAWS 7509-1. Trial Competition. Student teams further develop trial and advocacy skills in a competitive mock-trial format involving two or more rounds of trials. Requires preparation of trial briefs and drafting other court pleadings and documents. Credit is limited to the top two teams (six students). Student finalists may continue involvement in regional and national competitions. May be repeated within the term up to 4 total credit hours.
LAWS 7609-1. Law Practice Management. Studies the establishment of a solo or small-firm legal practice. Topics include the business structure (PC, LLC, etc.), office systems, marketing and development, staffing, liability insurance, managing time, technology, and billing. (This practice course counts toward the 14 credit hour maximum of practice hours.) Course supported by the Section of Law Practice Management of the ABA in memory of Harold A. Feder, CU Law ‘59.
LAWS 7619-2. Entrepreneurial Law Clinic. Advise indigent clients who need legal services in the founding of their business or not-for-profit firms, registering LLCs, and drafting employment and intellectual property agreements. Prereq., two of the following courses: Agency Partnership and the LLC, Corporations, Securities, Seminar on Corporate Law, Law and Finance for Entrepreneurs, Accounting Issues for Lawyers, Patent Law, Trademark, and International Business Transactions.
LAWS 7751-3. Arbitration. Discusses the nature of arbitration, tactical considerations in whether to use this form or another form of dispute resolution, the drafting of effective contracts to arbitrate the enforceability of these contracts, and the enforcement of arbitration awards. Covers the preclusive effect of arbitration proceedings, multiparty arbitration, and choice of law. Students conduct simulated arbitrations.
LAWS 7809 (2-4). Technology Law and Policy Clinic. Features technology law advocacy before administrative and legislative bodies. The mission of TLPC is: 1) to train and produce students equipped to conduct thoughtful analysis, and 2) provide unbiased assistance in the public interest concerning technology issues to regulatory entities, courts, legislatures and standard setting bodies. Recommended prereqs., LAWS 6301, 6318 or 7241.
LAWS 7939 (1-7). Extern Program. Extern credit may be earned for uncompensated work for a sponsor, which may be any lawyer, judge, or organization that employs lawyers or judges and is approved by the Academic and Student Affairs Committee. Work is done under the direction of a field instructor (a lawyer or judge as the sponsor) and a member of the law faculty. Requires a substantial writing component and 50 hours of working time per credit hour. A minimum of 1 and a maximum of 7 credit hours may be earned. Classified as practice credit.
