This is a writing seminar intended to help students attain an advanced level of writing proficiency by exposing them to a broad range of legal documents. This course introduces students to skills and documents that are not part of the first-year legal writing curriculum. Overall the students will learn to write to different audiences. The basic skills are how to conceptualize a writing assignment, how to write with clarity, and how to write with precision.

Students will apply and develop these basic skills in approximately five assignments written outside of class, plus some in-class assignments. Assignments may include letters, contracts, complaints, statutes, and consumer-oriented documents such as pattern jury instructions. Roughly half of the assignments emphasize a transactional practice, and half of the assignments emphasize a litigation practice. Students will receive feedback on all of these assignments.

Course is open to ASU JD candidates only. Enrollment will be determined through a lottery.

Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 2
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible/Upper-Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Skills Requirement: Yes
Simulation Course: No
Experiential Learning: Yes
Seminar: No
Prerequisite: 2 semesters of 1st year legal writing
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Limited Enrollment Number: 16
Final Exam Given: No
Paper Or In-Class Presentation: Yes, see description
Participation Points: Probably
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Additional Attendance Policy: Required

* The law school has a policy that is used to calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.