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Using Simulations to Prepare Law Students for Real-World Practice

Using Simulations to Prepare Law Students for Real-World Practice. [Insert Name of Organization] [Insert Name of Speaker]. Today’s Conversation. This will be more of a conversation among colleagues than a lecture

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Using Simulations to Prepare Law Students for Real-World Practice

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  1. Using Simulations to Prepare Law Students for Real-World Practice [Insert Name of Organization] [Insert Name of Speaker]

  2. Today’s Conversation • This will be more of a conversation among colleagues than a lecture • We will focus on helping faculty use simulations – including in courses focusing primarily on teaching legal doctrine

  3. Potential Benefits • Greater identification with range of legal roles including interviewer, advisor, planner, negotiator, and dispute process innovator, in addition to courtroom advocate • Increased integration of doctrinal and skills instruction • Increased student learning and retention of knowledge about legal doctrine and skills

  4. Simulations • Taking steps beyond thinking and talking about law • Students act in lawyer’s role (or related roles) • Assumes outcomes not based solely on law & facts • … also affected by moves of independent actors, e.g.: • Clients • Counterpart lawyers • Mediators • Judges

  5. Simulations in Law School(not necessarily long or complex) • Litigation activities, e.g., • Interviewing and counseling clients • Conducting depositions • Trying cases • Making appellate arguments • “Alternative” dispute resolution • Negotiation • Mediation • Arbitration

  6. Simulations in Doctrinal Courses • Consider teaching goals and mix of teaching methods • Can be in class or outside class • Can be short • Can integrate learning at end of unit or course • Need not be graded • Can use 1-page assessment sheets • Ask about student insights -- “aha” moments • Can assign students to write their own simulations • May reduce some coverage … consider your priorities

  7. Multi-Stage Simulations • Obviously more ambitious • Example: possible stages in negotiation • Conduct initial client interview • Develop relationship with counterpart lawyer • Plan negotiation process • Conduct factual investigation / legal research • Prepare client for negotiation • Conduct final negotiation • Draft settlement agreement

  8. What Simulations Do You Use? • What works well with your simulations? • What are the challenges with them?

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