Advanced Legal Writing: Contracts Drafting - LAWW 60521

Credits Hours: 1

This course will focus on skills employed in evaluating and drafting contract documents. Students will examine specific types of clauses, and learn their purposes as will as their advantages and disadvantages. Students will review and draft a variety of contracts, addressing issues regarding compliance with law, risk allocation, protection of clients interests, logical organization, presentation, and clarity of language. The emphasis in this course is on the substantive aspects of contracts drafting, although writing skills are necessarily a part of good drafting and will also be included. Written assignments will include revising proposed agreements as well as drafting agreements from scratch. (Formerly LAW 6152)