LAW 8656C      Jackson County Prosecutor Clinic-Family Law Prosection
As permitted by Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13, senior law students, under supervision, appear in court and assist the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office, Child Support Division, in prosecuting cases involving paternity establishment and child support. Support services are provided without charge to custodial parents living in Jackson County. Students enroll for two semesters and are required to devote at least 10 hours per week to formalized instructions, individual mentoring, and instruction and guidance from assistant prosecutors. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: Rule 13 certification, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Criminal procedure I, and Family Law. Ungraded. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8656F      Federal Public Defender Externship Clinic
Up to three students will be assigned to work in the Federal Public Defender's Office. Under the supervision of the Federal Public Defender, a student will prepare pleadings and represent federal ndigent criminal defendants. Students will be expected to perform legal research, to write memoranda, motions and briefs, to observe and to appropriately participate in trials,pre-trial hearings, motion hearings and, in general, to assist in litigation. Students must meet eligibility requirements and be certified in compliance with the Local Federal Rules of Court. Student will work a pre-approved schedule totaling 6 hours a week for 14 weeks with a minimum of 80 hours a semester for two academic credit hours and to attend regular conference with their Supervising Attorney and with their Faculty Supervisor. Students must have completed three semesters of law school and must be in the upper half of their class. Ungraded. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8656P      Jackson County Prosecutor Clinic
As permitted by Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13, senior law students, under supervision, appear in court and assist the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office with the duties and functions the office provides the community. Students enroll for two semesters and are required to devote at least 10 hours per week to formalized instructions, individual mentoring, and instruction and guidance from assistant prosecutors. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: Rule 13 certification, and invitation after interview. Ungraded. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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LAW 8662      Federal Court Internship
Second or third-year students with a GPA of at least 3.0 serve in a clerkship with a judge or magistrate of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, or the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Students work at least 70 hours at the court, and attend review conferences over the course of the semester. Ungraded. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8662F      Family Court Clerkship
Second or third-year students will serve as law clerks to judges and commissioners in the family court of Jackson County. Students work at least 80 hours at the court and attend review conferences over the course of the semester. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8662M      Missouri Court of Appeals Internship
Second or third-year students with a GPA of at lease 3.0 serve in a clerkship with a judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals. Students work at least 70 hors at the court, and attend review conferences over the course of the semester. Ungraded. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8665      Animal Law
This course will begin with a brief overview of the philosophical and cultural issues underlying human/animal relationships, including basic theories of the legal systems's responses to social change. Legal issues relating to food animals, companion animals, laboratory animals, wild animals, and performing animals will be examined with reference to: (1) federal statues (Animal Welfare Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Wild Horses and Burros Act, Animal Damage Control Act, National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act, Refuge Recreation Act, National Environment Police Act, and Humane Slaughter Act); (2) state statues (anti-cruelty, wills and trusts, hunting, racing and fighting statues); (3) local animal control regulations; and (4) extensive common law (standing, rights, free exercise of religion, property, landlord-tenant disputes, torts, marital dissolution and custody, and bailment).
Credits: hours
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LAW 8665A      Animal Law
This course will begin with a brief overview of the philosophical and cultural issues underlying human/animal relationships, including basic theories of the legal systems's responses to social change. Legal issues relating to food animals, companion animals, laboratory animals, wild animals, and performing animals will be examined with reference to: (1) federal statues (Animal Welfare Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Wild Horses and Burros Act, Animal Damage Control Act, National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act, Refuge Recreation Act, National Environment Police Act, and Humane Slaughter Act); (2) state statues (anti-cruelty, wills and trusts, hunting, racing and fighting statues); (3) local animal control regulations; and (4) extensive common law (standing, rights, free exercise of religion, property, landlord-tenant disputes, torts, marital dissolution and custody, and bailment).
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8700      Trial Advocacy I
A practical skills course in advocacy which introduces students to the fundamental components of a typical civil and criminal trial and requires students to perform exercises involving each component and try a mock civil or criminal case from provided problem materials. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis. Prerequisite or corequisite: Evidence.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8702      Conflict Of Laws
Domicile; jurisdiction and limitations on the exercise of jurisdiction; judgments; full faith and credit; choice of law; conflicts problems in federal and international settings; conflicts problems in selected areas. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8703      Trial Advocacy II
A practical skills course in the art of trial advocacy with an emphasis on technique, style, and methods of persuasion. During class sessions, students perform exercises involving the various stages of a law suit, and are critiqued on their performances. Following performance of the exercises, students are divided into teams and try a mock case in a trial competition, from which the Law School's National Trial Competition Teams are selected. The trials are evaluated by trial lawyers and federal or state judges. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis.. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: Trial Advocacy I
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8704      Lawyering Skills
Interviewing and counseling; fact investigation; discovery; negotiation. Simulated videotaped exercises and drafting assignments. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure and Evidence.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8704A      Lawyreing Skills Competition-Appellate
this course is limited to students who represent the law school in faculty supervised regional, national or international lawyering skills competitions. These competitions require application of lawyering skills in a range of substantive law areas and intensive practice of lawyering skills, judged by faculty and practitioners in the field. Students enrolled in this course will be representing the school in various moot court appellate advocacy competitions. Students will research and draft briefs or equivalent advocacy documents, develop oral arguments, conduct practice oral arguments before a range of student, faculty, and practitioner judges, and represent the law school in regional national or international competitions. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8704C      Lawyering Skills Competition-Client Counseling Team
The course is limited to students who represent the law school in faculty supervised regional, national or international lawyering skills competitions. Students enrolled in this course will be representing the school in the client counseling competitions. Students will research a problem from a range of areas of law and develop problem solving and client counseling strategies and documents and conduct mock client interviews. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8704N      Lawyer Skills Competition-Negotiation Team
The course is limited to students who represent the law school in faculty supervised regional, national and international lawyering skills competitions, Students enrolled in this course will be representing the school in various negotiation competitions. Students will research a problem from a range of law and develop negotiation strategies and documents and conduct mock negotiations. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8704T      Lawyer Skills Competition-Transactional Practice Teams
The course is limited to students who represent the law school in faculty supervised regional, national or international lawyering skills competition. Students enrolled in this course will be representing the school in various negotiation competitions and meets, Students will research a problem involving business transactions or tax and prepare analysis and problem solving strategies. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8705      Trial Advocacy III
Students, under the supervision of trial advocacy faculty, participate in trial competitions. Enrollment by invitation only. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis. Prerequisite: Trial Advocacy I and II.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8706      Complex Litigation
As related to litigation of complex cases, study of special issues of party joinder and intervention, class action requirements and limitations, discovery, case management, and estoppel by verdict or judgment. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I and II.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8707      Advanced Legal Writing: Litigation Drafting
Preparation of litigation documents and pleadings, including complaint or petition; cross-claim, counterclaim or third-party petition; answer; discovery documents such as a set of interrogatories or requests to admit; dispositive motions; and settlement agreements. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I & II.
Credits: hours
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LAW 8707A      Advanced Legal Writing: Practical Skills Development
Preparation of students for writing problems commonly encountered in the first two years of law practice: jury instructions, general correspondence, opinion letters, simple contracts, litigation motions and pleadings including a complaint, answer and some discovery documents. Individual feedback provided. Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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