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1. Course Evaluation Results for Fall 2012 Discovery Practicum

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   Students evaluated the Discovery Practicum taught by Professor David Thomson at the University of Denver at the end of the fall semester of 2012. Students generally praise the practical and applicable nature of the course, as well as the varied teaching techniques employed throughout the semester.

2. Week Three Assignment - The Legal Profession

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   This assignment from The Legal Profession course at the Indiana University School of Law helps students to align their personal work values with the coursework, as well as the work students will eventually encounter in the legal profession. The assignment requires students to identify their most and least important career values. The assignment also outlines the expectations for student work in small groups.

3. Student Feedback - International Business Negotiations

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   This document provides feedback from students who partcipated in the International Business Negotiations course at the Washington School of Law at American University. Generally, the students praise the course for its realistic perspective on the nature of transactional law and the experience of the semester-long negotiation process.

4. Survey on Students' Legal Skills

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   At the 2012 Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers conference, Professor William Henderson presented on Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s first-year professionalism course. Professor Henderson's surveys focused on the professionalism skills held by his students, including those skills not traditionally taught in law school. In this video, he presents some of the results of his ... MORE

5. Sample Complaint - State Civil Procedure

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   This Sample Complaint from the State Civil Procedure course is a student-drafted complaint that addresses the hypothetical fact pattern for the course. The drafted complaint represents a percentage of the students’ overall grade.

6. Skills & Values: Discovery Practice Textbook

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   Professor Thomson authored the required textbook for his Discovery Practicum at the University of Denver. The textbook, Skills & Values: Discovery Practice, provides students excellent teaching materials for this pre-trial course. The textbook is problem-based, providing a rich learning environment both online and in print, and allows professors to create a simulated civil litigation to promote active, practice-focused learning throughout the course.

7. Carnegie Integration

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   Bill Sullivan is the Founding Director of Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers and was lead author of the 2007 Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers. In this video from the 2012 ETL Conference, he addresses how law schools can best integrate the third Carnegie Apprenticeship, professionalism, into their curriculum.

8. Defendant’s Request for Production of Documents - Discovery Practicum

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   As part of the Discovery Practicum taught by Professor David Thomson at the University of Denver, students must draft a series of discovery documents throughout the semester. This student-drafted Defendant’s Request for Production of Documents is based upon a hypothetical the students use throughout the semester. Drafted to mirror a document used in practice, the request co... MORE

9. Litigation Immersion: Daily Schedule

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   Washington & Lee School of Law requires all third year law students to participate in an immersion course each semester: a litigation immersion course in the fall followed by a transactional immersion course in the spring. This schedule outlines the daily expectations for the students participating in the litigation immersion program, as well as the required reading for the course.

10. Voices from the Field: Douglas Scrivner, "On-the-Job Training"

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    In his Voices from the Field interview, Douglas G. Scrivner, former General Counsel of Accenture, discusses the changes he would like to see in legal education today. In this video, Scrivner outlines the shift in the legal profession away from providing on-the-job training, and how law schools can and should embrace this shift by changing the way they teach stud... MORE