ยป Legal Analysis Workshop

Legal Analysis Workshop, a three unit, graded course, focuses in part on the analysis and drafting of legal documents commonly prepared during the first few years of law practice and tested on the California Bar Exam, including:

  • memoranda 
  • briefs 
  • correspondence 
  • declarations 
  • separate statements in support of motions for summary judgment/adjudication 
  • discovery plans 
  • written discovery

The course also focuses on the identification of client issues and the use of case precedent to predict the outcome of client problems. Because the Bar Exam has reduced Performance Tests from two 3-hour tests to one 90-minute test, Legal Analysis Workshop also includes class sessions on multiple-choice skills, focusing on the seven multistate bar examination subjects: Contracts & Sales; Torts; Federal Civil Procedure; Federal Evidence; Criminal Law & Procedure; Real Property; and Constitutional Law.

Enrollment in this course is available to all upper-class students, but preference is given to students who are required to take the course (those in the bottom 25% of their class) and students in their last semester of law school.

Interested students may contact Assistant Dean Sarira Sadeghi at ssadeghi@chapman.edu or (714) 628-2672, and can find her in the Center for Student Engagement on the third floor of Kennedy Hall.