This course offers students an immersive, practical introduction to the unique role of in-house counsel.

This is an intensive skills course that provides students with hands-on practice opportunities focusing on the skills, strategies and select substantive law tested on the written and multiple-choice portion of the bar exam.

 Writing and multiple-choice skills are taught using select subjects and topics that are frequently bar tested. Students will have the opportunity to practice with testing components of the California Bar Exam and NextGen Bar Exam.

Practical Lawyering Skills is a two-unit workshop course designed to enhance students' critical thinking and writing skills. Students will learn how to approach assignments or problems "like a lawyer." Class sessions will focus on techniques for efficiently reading and analyzing case and library files, organizing file material, and drafting legal documents for a specific audience. Students will also review writing organization, analysis, and issue prioritization. Students should expect to practice these techniques under time pressure.

This course will expose students to a cutting-edge critical approach that challenges the long-held beliefs that emotion is the enemy of reason and that thinking and feeling are opposite experiences. While conventional law tends to rely upon and perpetuate such beliefs, many disciplines that study decision-making or respond to human problems, including psychology, medicine, sociology, and education, have made what's called "an affective turn," revealing emotions' vital role in shaping and responding to people's experiences.

This course will explore the intricacies of juvenile delinquency law, a dynamic area of practice that addresses how the criminal justice system applies to children who commit crimes.  It will closely examine current and recent legislation and evaluate policy arguments concerning delinquency issues.  By learning how advocates raise juvenile justice issues through legislation, statutory construction arguments, amicus, and policy work, students will engage with issues affecting juvenile justice and understand the framework of the juvenile delinquency system.  

This course explores the intersection of media and the law, focusing on the impact that the law has upon the media as it gathers information and publishes the news. Students will become familiar with U.S. cases addressing the issues of libel, appropriation, public information, reporter's privilege, and access to criminal proceedings.

Students will learn how to promote creative, non-partisan changes to the law through the legislative process. By the end of the course, students will be well-versed in legislative terminology, process, and inner workings of both houses (Assembly and Senate). They will have gained experience in researching, analyzing, drafting, and debating proposed bills. Students will meet with local representatives and be exposed to career opportunities in the legislative field.

This in-person course examines how constitutional principles such as due process, equal protection, and separation of powers shape and constrain U.S. immigration law and enforcement. Students analyze key Supreme Court decisions and apply doctrinal knowledge in practice-based exercises, such as simulations and legal writing assignments.

An experiential course on navigating the immigration removal process in Immigration Court. Students will engage in doctrinal learning and simulated court exercises focused on developing practical litigation skills in this dynamic and complex area of law.