Exclusion: Students taking this course may not also take Litigation and/or Medical Malpractice Litigation.

    *Pre-Trial S.1 (Stahl, 3 credits) also offers Skills credit.

Problem-oriented. Reviews the law and skills essential to pretrial advocacy through drafting exercises, simulations, and reading assignments. Topics include client interviewing; drafting of pleadings, motions, briefs and discovery; depositions; pretrial conferences; summary judgment; and settlement negotiations and agreements.

All sections use the same course material and follow a uniform syllabus. The text is Mauet's Pretrial (latest ed.). The other course material is a special printing only available in the bookstore. This will not be purchased until directed by the professor a number of weeks into the semester.