The 30-minute sessions are designed to help you reduce stress, increase concentration, and thrive during exam period.

This course is designed to teach students the fundamental skills necessary to represent clients in civil discovery and motion practice before trial.  The course concentrates on developing skills in client communication, drafting pleadings, preparing and responding to written discovery, arguing pretrial motions, and preparing for and taking the depositions of both fact and expert witnesses.  Throughout the individual lessons, the faculty spends time discussing case development, the burden of proof at trial, and the witnesses and exhibits that an attorney will need to obtain in preparation for representing their client before a jury.  The faculty also discusses related issues including insurance coverage and its effect on the attorney-client relationship and execution of a potential judgment.  The course’s explicit focus on pretrial practice reflects the availability of further education in trial skills through Tulane’s Trial Advocacy program and Tulane’s clinical programs.   

This course hopes to teach students three critical skills required for pretrial advocacy in criminal litigation: information gathering; drafting motions; and arguing motions.  The course will focus on the five matters (and related motions) most commonly encountered in the interval between arrest and trial: (1) bail; (2) discovery; (3) “similar acts”/FRE 404B evidence; (4) motions to dismiss; and (5) motions to suppress evidence.  Students in the course will be divided into two groups – a prosecution track, and a defense track – and will be expected to learn what information is necessary for each motion; to research and write each motion; and then to argue their motion (or opposition) each day.  In addition, students will be expected to learn to formulate a theory of the case, either prosecution, or defense, and then to make strategic decisions consistent with that theory as they move through the pretrial process.  The course is designed to occupy the territory between classroom theory and trial practice.  Training in the latter area is readily available through Tulane’s Trial Advocacy program, Tulane’s Criminal Law Clinic, and Tulane’s supervised externships at public defenders’ and prosecutors’ offices.

This course will consist of a series of counseling, negotiation, due diligence, and drafting exercises structured around a basic corporate transaction (e.g., an asset purchase).  The course will introduce students to fundamental deal skills, such as structuring the timetable for a transaction, eliciting and drafting the operative business terms, identifying legal and business risks and negotiating corresponding risk-shifting and risk-reduction provisions, and reviewing and drafting the ancillary documents necessary to consummate the transaction. 

This one-credit course is designed to introduce students to a range of basic business concepts that lawyers will encounter in commercial or transactional practice. Students will be grouped into 6 teams, each of which will act as a consultant in connection with a proposed sale of a publicly traded company (the “Company”). With the assistance of one or more Senior Advisor, each team will participate in a series of exercises designed to analyze different aspects of the proposed sale, including an understanding of the industry, the value chain in the Company’s market, the value of a business combination with the Company in advancing the long-term objectives of different bidders, the fair value of the Company under different valuation methodologies, the options available to a finance a business combination with the Company, and the risks posed to individual bidders by a business combination with the Company. As a final project, each team will make an oral presentation to the CEO and board of a specific bidder regarding the Company’s strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and challenges posed by a business combination with the Company.

TRADEMARK Prosecution Boot Camp This 1-credit graded course will provide students the opportunity to engage in educational simulated hands-on trademark prosecution tasks, including researching trademark availability, preparing freedom-to-use and registrability opinions, preparing trademark applications, preparing use affidavits, evaluating and responding to USPTO office actions, and responding to oppositions. The course, taught by Prof. Joel Feldman, will simulate the lifecycle of a trademark application, from clearance through publication for opposition

Law study abroad in Australia.

Law study abroad in Argentina.

Law study abroad in Hong Kong.

Law study abroad in Denmark.

Law study abroad in France.

Law study abroad in Germany.

Law study abroad in Israel.

Law study abroad in Japan.

Law study abroad in Amsterdam.

Law study abroad in The Netherlands.

Law study abroad in Spain.

Law study abroad in Colombia.

Law study abroad in China.

Law study abroad in Switzerland.

Law study abroad in Sweden.

Special research topics for visiting scholars. Course may be repeated unlimited times for credit.

Law transfer coursework. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Law transfer coursework. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Law transfer coursework. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.

Law transfer coursework.

One-credit, graded co-requisite seminar component for the Law externships.

English as a second language for Law students.

Law Exchange Student Study Abroad.

Research topics for Law SJD students. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.