Summer 2023

Two-semester course focusing on developing analytic and communication skills. Lawyers will analyze legal principles and incisively apply them to facts. Graded CR/D/F.

Students learn basic and advanced mediation skills, practice their skills in simulated mediations, and upon certification by the instructor, mediate in the Los Angeles County courts.

An externship allows a student to gain hands-on legal experience in legal settings. Students will be assigned to a legal services program, government agency or state or federal judge under faculty supervision. All externships include an initial orientation and subsequent academic assignments. A maximum of 8 units may be earned over two externships.

Part-time or full-time, practical work experience in the student's field of study. The internship must be located at an off-campus facility. Students are individually supervised by faculty. May not be taken until the student has completed at least one semester of enrollment in the graduate program with a cumulative 3.0 GPA.

An externship allows a student to gain hands-on legal experience in legal settings. Students will be assigned to a legal services program, government agency, or state or federal judge under faculty supervision. All externships include a classroom component.

Explores a variety of contract provisions, and teaches students the important drafting skills necessary to achieve a clients goal.

One CR/D/F unit for a research proposal approved by a full- or part-time faculty supervisor; up to four graded units with academic deans approval of proposal by LLM or third-year JD student to produce a publishable paper under full-time professor.