This course explores the practical, legal, and ethical issues facing attorneys in tax planning.
Professional Responsibility: Criminal Practice
This course provides an introduction to professional and ethical issues that concern lawyers working in a criminal practice setting.
Property
This course covers fundamental property concepts including personal property, real property, land use and development, and the modern real estate transaction.
PTO Trademark Clinic
This clinic provides the opportunity for upper-level students to represent entrepreneurs who cannot afford expensive counsel before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Race, Bias, and Advocacy
This course examines how issues of race and race bias manifest themselves in the practice of law.
Restorative Practices Field Placement
This field placement offers students a placement in a nonprofit or government agency that uses restorative practices or principles in their work, usually as one of the tools or approaches in their work in a legal or legal-adjacent area.
Securities Arbitration Field Placement
In this placement, students will learn how to conduct factual and legal analysis, draft pleadings, and represent clients in securities arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority under the supervision of experienced attorneys.
State and Local Legislation: Substance, Process, and Politics
This course teaches the principles involved in drafting legislation and regulations and incorporating policymaking into drafting.
Street Law
This course focuses on developing an understanding of the law, the legal process, our system of government, and effective citizenship.
Tax of Property Transactions: General Topics
This course examines the federal income tax consequences of sales, exchanges, and other dispositions of property and the fundamental tax issues presented by these transactions.