The Series Authors
Property (2011) | Warren R. Wise Professor of Law
University of Nebraska
College of Law
| Business Associations (2012)(This book is forthcoming) | Professor of Law and
Co-Director, Business Law Program
University of Maryland
Francis King Carey School of Law
| Civil Procedure (2012)(This book is forthcoming) | Associate Professor of Law
The University of Tennessee College of Law
| Contracts (2013)(This book is forthcoming) | Professor of Law
S.J. Quinney College of Law
University of Utah
| Criminal Law (2013)(This book is forthcoming) | Dean and Art Stolnitz and Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law
The University of Tennessee College of Law
| Torts (2013)(This book is forthcoming) | Homer R. Mitchell Professor of Law and University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Southern Methodist University
Dedman School of Law
| Environmental Law (2014)(This book is forthcoming) | Alumni Professor of Natural Resources Law
University of Nebraska College of Law
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Developing Professional Skills books are designed as supplemental texts that can be used to incorporate skills training in legal drafting, client interviewing and counseling, negotiation, advocacy and policy-making into traditional doctrinal courses. The skills exercises in each book are based on fundamental rules and doctrines learned by reading the professor's primary textbook, which makes it possible to incorporate the skills exercises without sacrificing the scope of coverage or assigning additional reading. The exercises may be completed either inside or outside of class in one hour or less. Each exercise requires the student to complete a work product template that may be used for assessment purposes.
The Teacher's Manual for each book contains a key to major casebooks, a summary review of the rules and doctrines that underlie each exercise, and suggestions for conducting the exercise and assessing student performance. The Teacher's Manual also provides suggestions for expanding classroom discussion to include ethical issues, professional responsibility concepts and the norms of modern legal practice.
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| DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: PROPERTY (2011) |
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Colleen E. Medill |
Developing Professional Skills: Property introduces you to the variety of skills that differentiate the law student from the experienced legal practitioner. Like any type of skill, acquiring professional legal skills takes time and patience. Most of all, it takes practice. Each chapter in this book provides you with the opportunity to practice a legal skill that you are likely to use again and again after you graduate from law school.
The chapters of this book are organized according to topics that usually are covered in an introductory Property course. In Chapter One, you will reply to a client’s e-mail question concerning who has the superior right to possession of found personal property. Chapter Two requires you to write a letter to an opposing party who claims title to a portion of your client’s land based on adverse possession. In Chapter Three, you must counsel an elderly client who wants to avoid probate by making lifetime gifts. Chapter Four requires you to summarize in writing the legal and practical issues that may arise if your client conveys away a defeasible present interest in real property. You also will prepare the language of a deed that conveys a defeasible present interest. In Chapter Five, you will interview a group of new clients who desire to acquire a commercial investment property as co-owners. Chapter Six involves the negotiation of the terms of a commercial lease. In Chapter Seven, you will craft the major points for a brief in support of claims for fraudulent misrepresentation and failure to disclose latent defects related to your client’s new home. Chapter Eight shows you how to draft various types of deeds. In Chapter Nine, you will draft an easement agreement for a billboard sign. Finally, in Chapter Ten you will negotiate the compensation due to a property owner whose land is being taken for a road improvement project.
Client counseling, legal drafting, negotiation and advocacy are the core skills of the legal profession. Developing Professional Skills: Property provides you with the opportunity to begin to acquire these skills.
Links:
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Sample Materials:
 Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Sample Chapter 1
Teacher's Manual Table of Contents
Teacher's Manual Overview of Chapter Topics
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