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Are you still looking for a class? Pretrial Litigation with Prof. Audrey Calkins<\/a> and Trial Advocacy with Judge Chris Craft<\/a> have seats available. Both courses count toward the six credits of the Experiential Learning requirement. Course descriptions are provided below.<\/p>\n Trial Advocacy is a simulation course wherein students will learn about the various phases of jury trial in civil and\/or criminal contexts, as well as the differences between a jury and non-jury trials. Students will simulate jury selection, opening statements, direct and cross-examinations, and closing arguments, and will learn how to introduce exhibits, present expert testimony, raise and respond to objections, and deal with problem witnesses. Students will have weekly simulation assignments and, in most sections, will conduct a full trial at the end of the semester. This course satisfies the Experiential Course requirement. Prerequisite (Required<\/strong>): Evidence, may be taken concurrently<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you still looking for a class? Pretrial Litigation with Prof. Audrey Calkins and Trial Advocacy with Judge Chris Craft...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-registrar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25010"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25020,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25010\/revisions\/25020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Pre-Trial Litigation Practice [TTh, 6:00-7:15 p.m.]<\/strong>
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\n3-hour simulation course<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAn intensive simulation course designed for students who plan to be civil litigators. Through a case file assigned at the beginning of the semester, students are encouraged to explore how lawyers strategically use each step in the pretrial litigation process to advance their clients’ interests. Students will engage in a wide range of typical pretrial tasks as time and opportunity permit, such as analyzing the law and investigating the facts in the context of the assigned case file; drafting relevant pleadings; preparing and responding to discovery, including interrogatories and document requests; taking and defending depositions; briefing and arguing a pretrial motion; and engaging in settlement negotiations with an opposing party, all while maintaining client relations and expectations. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure (Required<\/strong>) and \u00a0Evidence (Strongly recommended<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTrial Advocacy [Th, 5:30-8:20 p.m. at 201 Poplar Avenue in Judge Craft’s courtroom]<\/strong><\/div>\nCourse 516<\/div>\n3-hour\u00a0skills\/simulation course<\/em><\/div>\n\n