LF100
Contracts
QUARTER UNITS: 13
WEEKS: 20
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Students will study common law contract principles relating to oral and written contracts for services. They will learn the rules governing the formation of contracts such as offer, acceptance and consideration; they will study contractual conditions, 3rd party rights, assignments, and the law pertaining to enforcement of contracts, liability and remedies for breach of contract. Students will also study contract defenses such as the statute of frauds, frustration of purpose, impossibility, illegality, unconscionability, fraud, incapacity, undue influence, coercion, and public policy. The class will also discuss interpretation and application of the Uniform Commercial Code in transactions in goods. |
LF200
Criminal Law
QUARTER UNITS: 10
WEEKS: 14
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Students will examine the common law criminal justice system including its theory of punishment, the classification of crimes, criminal causation and the elements to various crimes. Students will study the criminal culpability rules applicable to perpetrators such as principals, accessories and accomplices. Students will learn the elements to various crimes committed against persons such as homicide, assault, battery, rape and mayhem. They will also study property crimes such as larceny, embezzlement, false pretenses, receiving stolen property, robbery, burglary and arson. Further, students will examine inchoate crimes of attempt, solicitation and conspiracy, and they will also learn many affirmative defenses including mistake, self-defense, consent, corpus delicti, insanity, duress, necessity, coercion and entrapment. |
LF300
Torts
QUARTER UNITS: 12
WEEKS: 18
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This course is a survey of civil causes of action for which an injured party may seek redress and compensatory relief in court. Students will learn various theories of tort liability including intentional torts to person and property such as assault, battery, false imprisonment, trespass and infliction of emotional distress. Students will also examine the law relating to causes of action for ordinary and professional negligence, wrongful death, products liability, and dignitary torts such as invasion of privacy, defamation, constitutional torts and nuisance. They will also examine strict liability causes of action such as pet ownership and products liability. Finally, students will examine tort defenses of privilege, mistake, self-defense, consent, necessity, immunity, contributory and comparative negligence and assumption of the risk. |
LU01
Real Property
QUARTER UNITS: 8
WEEKS: 12
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The course provides doctrinal analysis of various common and modern law real property rules. Students will examine ownership, possessory and alienable rights, and other legal interests in freehold and non-freehold estates, future interests, land covenants, equitable servitudes and easements. Students will study the law related to the recordation, use and transfer of property interests, and landlord/tenant law. |
LU02
Wills & Trusts
QUARTER UNITS: 8
WEEKS: 12
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This course is a two-part survey of the law of probate. Students will learn California probate law as it relates to the formation and validity of testamentary wills, intestacy succession, and disposition of probate assets. Then, students will study common law revocable and irrevocable trusts, and the statutory, doctrinal and decisional law pertaining to trust creation, modification and termination, trust management, the powers, duties and obligations of trustees, and beneficiary rights. |
LU03
Criminal Procedure
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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Students will study the rights of the accused in criminal matters by examining various provisions of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. Students will learn the law governing searches and seizures, confessions, double jeopardy, the right to counsel, jury trials, speedy trials, pleas, exclusionary rules and the appellate rights of an accused to enforce constitutional guarantees. |
LU04
Business Organizations
QUARTER UNITS: 8
WEEKS: 12
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This course is a didactic inquiry into the law governing American business enterprises. Students will study model, statutory and decisional law related to the formation and dissolution of partnerships, agency relationships, and private, public, close and limited liability corporations. Students will study the law governing public stock and securities transactions, dividends, mergers and hostile takeovers, and the rights of corporate shareholders. Students will study the respective roles, duties, liabilities, rights and remedies of shareholders and business decision-makers, including corporate directors, o fficers and subordinate employees. |
LU05
Remedies
QUARTER UNITS: 7
WEEKS: 10
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Students will learn equitable and legal remedies that are available to civil litigants. They will learn how to allege, measure and define the scope of monetary damage awards, restitution, legal fees, constructive trusts and apportionments in tort and contract actions. Students will explore coercive remedies such as injunctions, specific performance, contempt, and declaratory relief. |
LU06
Evidence
QUARTER UNITS: 8
WEEKS: 12
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This course teaches the standards that regulate the admissibility of proof at judicial proceedings placing special emphasis on the federal rules and general principles of evidence law. Students will study burdens of proof, relevancy, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, policy-based exclusionary rules, legal privileges, expert and lay opinions, scientific, forensic and demonstrative evidence, impeachment, authentication, character and habit evidence, and presumptions. |
LU07
Civil Procedure
QUARTER UNITS: 8
WEEKS: 12
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This course examines the rules governing civil proceedings and the jury trial system with emphasis on federal procedural rules. Students will study various phases of civil litigation and learn how to proceed with litigation in a court of law. Students will study the statutory and decisional law related to federalism, allocations of power between state and federal courts, personal and subject matter jurisdiction, rules of pleading, claim and party consolidation, venue, pre and post-trial motion practice, claim and issue preclusion, discovery, summary judgment, dismissals, and the appellate process. |
LU08
Professional Responsibility
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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This course is a survey of attorneys?legal and ethical obligations, and standards that are attendant to the practice of law and the legal profession. Students will study model statutory codes and decisional law that define an attorney’s legal and ethical obligations to clients, the courts, opposing counsel and the profession. They will study various legal conflicts that may arise during client representation while fulfilling the varying roles of advocate, officer of the court, public icon, and working practitioner. Students will study the business and economic aspects of the practice of law, restraints on practice, the role of the judiciary and the state bar in enforcing attorney rules of professional conduct, and sanctions for violating the rules. |
LU09
Constitutional Law
QUARTER UNITS: 8
WEEKS: 12
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Students will study the United States Constitution, the three branches and structure of the federal government, limitations and scope of government power, judicial review, the role of the United States Supreme Court, the Bill of Rights, and personal liberties. Students will examine the constitutional distribution of power between the federal government and the individual states and personal liberties under the Due Process clauses with special focus on fundamental rights, equal protection, freedom of assembly, press, religion and speech. |
LU10
Community Property
QUARTER UNITS: 7
WEEKS: 10
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Students will examine the law relating to California community and separate property, the division of marital assets upon divorce and death of a spouse, marital agreements, business assets, commingling of funds, property improvements, spousal liability for community and separate debts, education expenses, spousal rights to pension and disability income, lawsuit settlements, life insurance proceeds, and management and transfer of community property assets. |
LU41
Advanced Legal Research & Writing
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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This course is an advanced practical workshop designed to sharpen students?l e g a l writing skills. Students will practice writing memoranda of law, points and authorities, bench memoranda, client letters, attorney communications, discovery responses, and trial and appellate briefs. Students will emulate associate, research, or private attorneys and respond to letters, task memos, or legal documents, from attorneys, clients, judges or special interest groups. Students will utilize sample client files, court documents and law libraries as their tools to gather and analyze facts, research and cite law, apply legal ethics, develop legal tactics, and render legal advice in their performance test answers. |
LU42
Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing : Criminal Law & Procedure
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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Students will practice writing essays at an advanced level relating to common law and modern law crimes, and defenses and the constitutional rights of the accused. Students will analyze written fact patterns and apply substantive and procedural rules of law pertaining to crimes against persons and property and inchoate offenses such as solicitation, conspiracy, and attempt and any criminal defenses. Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze written fact patterns and to distill constitutional issues derived from various provisions of the Bill of Rights. Such issues include searches and seizures, confessions, double jeopardy, right to counsel, jury trials, speedy trials, pleas and government sanctions to enforce the Constitution. Students will be expected to articulate their legal analysis of each fact pattern. |
LU43
Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing : Real Property
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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This course provides in-depth analysis of various common and modern law real property rights and legal interests in freehold and non-freehold estates, future interests, land covenants, equitable servitudes and easements, the recordation, use and transfer of property interests and landlord/tenant law. Students will be expected to analyze hypothetical facts, apply substantive rules of property law and articulate their analysis in written essays. |
LU44
Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing : Professional Responsibility/ Business Organizations
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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This course provides advanced analysis of two substantive areas of law. First, students will analyze model codes, statutory and decisional law which set forth attorneys?l e g a l and ethical obligations to their clients, the courts, opposing counsel and the legal profession. Second, this course provides advanced analysis of the law relating to private, close and publicly traded corporations and other business enterprises such as partnerships, sole proprietorships and agency relationships. Students will review legal doctrines related to public stock, securities sales, corporate board of directors?d u t i e s and liabilities, shareholder duties, rights and remedies, dividends, mergers and hostile takeovers. Students will analyze various hypothetical facts, apply substantive law and write essays that provide legal and factual analysis and demonstrate a working application of the law. |
LU45
Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing : Evidence/Constitutional Law
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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This course is an advanced practical writing workshop on two substantive areas of law. Students will demonstrate their ability to write cogent, well-reasoned and persuasive practice essays. First, students will review the federal rules of evidence and standards that regulate the admissibility of proof at judicial proceedings. They will examine general evidence law principles such as burdens of proof, relevancy, policy-based exclusionary rules, expert and lay opinions, impeachment, authentication, character evidence and presumptions. Second, students will review the federal Constitution, branches of federal government, limitations and scope of federal government power, the role of the United States Supreme Court, the Bill of Rights and individual liberties. |
LU46
Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing : Torts
QUARTER UNITS: 3
WEEKS: 5
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This course is an advanced essay writing course pertaining to civil causes of action and civil wrongs for which an injured party may seek redress and other compensatory relief. Students will be expected to analyze hypothetical fact patterns related to tort law, distill points of law from the facts, and write essays in a logical, well-reasoned, lawyerlike manner. Students will review various theories of tort liability including intentional torts to person and property such as assault, battery, false imprisonment and trespass. Students will examine the law relating to ordinary, and professional negligence, wrongful death, and products liability and dignitary harms such as invasion of privacy, defamation, nuisance, constitutional torts and strict liability causes of action. Students will study tort defenses such as self-defense, privilege, mistake, consent, necessity, i m m u n i t y, contributory and comparative negligence, assumption of the risk, and others. |
LU47
Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing : Contracts & Sales
QUARTER UNITS: 3
WEEKS: 5
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This course is an advanced essay writing workshop and practical analysis of two coextensive substantive areas of law. First, students will examine common law contract principles relating to oral and written contracts for services. Students will analyze contract formation rules including off e r, acceptance and consideration, conditions, third party rights, assignments, enforcement of contracts, breach, and remedies. Students will also analyze contract defenses such as the statute of frauds, frustration of purpose, impossibility, illegality, unconscionability, lack of capacity, undue influence, coercion and public policy violations. Second, students will analyze Article II of the Uniform Commercial Code, a statutory body of law, specifically related to the sale of goods. Students will be expected to analyze hypothetical fact patterns in both disciplines, extract points of law from the facts, and write essays in a logical, wellreasoned, lawyer-like manner. |
LU48
Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing : Wills / Trusts & Community Property
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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This course is an essay workshop that examines three substantive areas of law. First, students will analyze California probate law relating to the formation and validity of wills, intestacy succession, and disposition of probate assets. Second, students will study various common law types of trusts and the rules pertaining to trust creation, modification and termination, trust management, the powers, duties and obligations of trustees, and beneficiary rights. Finally, students will review the law relating to California community and separate property, division of marital assets upon divorce and death of either spouse, marital agreements, business assets, commingling of funds, property improvements, spousal liability for community and separate debts, education expenses, spousal rights to pension and disability income, lawsuit settlements, life insurance proceeds, and management of community property. Students will be expected to analyze written hypothetical facts in all three disciplines, extract rules of law from the facts, and write essays in a logical, well-reasoned, lawyer-like manner. |
LU49
Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing : Civil Procedure & Remedies
QUARTER UNITS: 4
WEEKS: 6
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This course is an advanced writing workshop on two substantive areas of law. First, students will study the federal rules of civil procedure which include statutory and decisional laws related to personal and subject matter jurisdiction, venue, sufficiency of pleadings, counterclaims, cross-complaints, claim consolidation, joining parties, motion practice, claim and issue preclusion, summary judgment and dismissals. Second, students will examine the law of civil remedies and the types of equitable and legal remedies available to civil litigants including monetary damages, restitution, coercive remedies, injunctions, and declaratory relief, and the scope of relief to be awarded to litigants in tort and contract causes of action. Students will be expected to analyze written hypothetical facts in both areas of law, distill the law from the facts, and write essays in a logical, well-reasoned, lawyer-like manner. |
