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Writing Program

Banking and Financial Law LL.M.’s have the opportunity to take a fall semester two-credit Legal Research and Writing seminar, specifically designed to introduce foreign lawyers to the basic principles of American legal writing. In small class settings and individual conferences, students receive guidance on drafting and editing memoranda and agreements. Their work is critiqued and rewritten.

The research component of the seminar trains students to locate cases, statutes and secondary material through indexing systems and the latest computer technology. Research assignments are integrated into writing assignments -- exposing students to the methods of US legal analyses -- so that by the end of the term, students obtain the skills needed to write memoranda appropriate for submission to US law firms

The LL.M. Writing Seminar is supervised by Professor Robert Volk, the Director of the First Year Writing Program. His office, as well as the Writing Program office, is located in Room 752. Classes will begin the week of August 31and will meet every week during the first semester.

Information for Fall 2009 will be posted during summer 2009.