(Formerly titled Advanced Legal Analysis and Writing: Drafting) Writing course, designed to improve and refine students’ writing, analytical, and editing skills. The course offers a wide range of realistic legal writing projects, completed inside and outside of class. Writing is done under the direct supervision of the professors. Credit/No Credit. Limited enrollment. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement. 

Required course.  Credit/No Credit.

Credit/No Credit.  Students must apply through the Office of the Director of Internships.  Limited Enrollment.  Click here for more information.  Seminar will meet five times:  6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22, and 7/13.  Full credit requires completion of 225 hours of a pre-approved, supervised legal internship, and attendance of all five (5) classes unless otherwise approved in advance by the professor.

CLASS CANCELLED FOR SUMMER.  UPPER DIVISION STUDENTS WHO NEED THIS CLASS SHOULD SEND AN EMAIL TO serwin@scu.edu.

Bar course. Subject to grade curve. A general survey course which fully prepares students for the California bar exam coverage in this area. The readings and workload in this course are heavy.

Complex litigation often involves the collection, production, management and analysis of massive amounts of electronic data. This course considers the legal and operational issues associated with such processes.  Prerequisite: 114 (Pleading and Civil Procedure). 

Topics include:  the past to the present – how discovery in complex cases has changed with the onslaught of e-information;  a review of the key cases relating to e-Discovery – from the Enron to Zubulake; the new e-Discovery Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; the companion state procedures; understanding what e-information is and how it is stored at/by most companies; creating the e-Discovery discovery plan and coordinating the e-Discovery collection and e-Discovery ethical considerations.

Course meets only the first three weeks of summer session (May 29 to June 16). However, if instructor's litigation schedule requires, some classes may be rescheduled to same Tu/Sat times during later weeks of summer session (July 21 is the last possible date).

Limited enrollment.  This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

Note: Students interested in working in the immigration practice area with political asylum, VAWA (battered immigrant spouses and children), U Visa (victims of particularly serious crimes), and T Visa (victims of human trafficking) cases MUST also register for the 1-unit credit/no credit course on trauma and working with traumatized clients (Health Law #418B). This one-unit course will be offered at the Law Center. Students who are unable to register for this one-unit course will be assigned non-trauma immigration cases such as relative petitions, citizenship, and other types of deportation defense cases.

This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

Credit/No Credit. Limited enrollment. Clinic is located in Loyola Hall. 

Work at the Innocence project provides a unique insight into our criminal justice system and the causes of wrongful convictions. You will receive professional skills training including case management, case organization, interviewing and counseling and case development. You will have the opportunity to develop legal writing skills through edited work on legal motions, professional communications and legal memoranda. These are important skills for professional work in large firms, government agencies, as well as criminal law offices.

This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.  This is the credit/no credit portion of NCIP.  The first 3 units of this class are graded, through NCIP A.  Any units taken thereafter are graded as Credit/No Credit only, through this course. 

Approved IP LLM Class.

Approved IP LLM class.