Jan 30, 2025

JFK School of Law at National University (Formerly JFK at NCU) - Fall 2022

JFK School of Law at National University (Formerly JFK at NCU) - Fall 2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LAW-310 - Trial Advocacy

Semester Credits: 3 Weeks: 10

Does not match catalog description. Change to: This course engages students in practical exercises designed to develop written and oral advocacy skills. Each student will participate in one or more oral advocacy exercises each week. These exercises will cover advocacy skills for pre-trial motions, jury selection, opening statements, presentation of documentary and testimonial evidence, and closing arguments. Students will employ the rules of evidence necessary to successfully bring and defend pre-trial motions, to raise and respond to objections at trial, and to conduct other stages of a jury trial in an online courtroom before a judge. (Students who have completed one of the clinical programs (Housing Advocacy, Elder Law Clinic, or Children, Families & the Law Internship), or who have completed a significant off-campus internship placement with demonstrated experience in litigation and/or appellate practice, may seek a waiver of EITHER Trial Advocacy or Appellate Advocacy. If approved, the waiver relieves the student of the requirement that credit be earned in the waived course. Waiver of a course does NOT confer unit credit.)