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This book provides students the opportunity to draft an entire estate plan for a fairly typical couple, from the initial client meeting and retainer letter, to the will, revocable trust and the transmittal letter. Students can role-play as clients or lawyers and work in teams to draft the documents, or they can work through the documents individually. The chapters take them through the initial client meeting where they learn details about their clients' lives and probable beneficiaries. Then the students will analyze the clients' property and work through the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of holding the property, as well as the clients' intentions regarding the succession of the property at death. The students will learn to calculate homestead, family allowance, exempt property, intestate shares, and the elective share, in order to understand how the estate would devolve under various default rules. Then students will draft a living will, durable power of attorney, health care proxy, and disposition of physical remains. Finally, they will draft a basic will and revocable trust. When they are done drafting the plan documents, the students will draft a letter explaining the work they have done for their clients and enclose a final bill, which they will draft from the time sheets they will have maintained throughout the representation. The final chapters offer some additional drafting exercises to deal with future interests, a special needs trust, and the clients' acquisition of additional property that could lead to tax consequences. This book provides students with a real live case study, so when they reach practice they should be able to hit the ground running.

This volume in the Bridge to Practice series is designed to help students hit the ground running when they graduate, focusing on the trial context - how to handle evidentiary issues in the heat of battle. In ten chapters it takes the class through each of the major areas of Evidence law, using simulated trial settings, pre-trial arguments, and trial-planning evidentiary analysis.

Written as a novel and guided by directed questions and assignments, this book immerses students in the stories of real-life clients to provide a birds-eye view of the lawyering skills and substantive law involved in the practice of immigration law. The engaging material lends itself to classroom exploration and discussion.

Use of this book assists bankruptcy law professors in transforming podium courses into ABA-required experiential learning opportunities. This book helps law students put together the interconnected pieces of consumer debtor- or creditor-focused law practice with simulation exercises.

This employment law supplement enables students to apply employment law concepts in a realistic lawyering context. Simulated practice problems facilitate the development of fact-finding, analytical, advocacy, ethical client counselling, negotiation, and strategic thinking skills. Research exercises expand student research skills.

A critical skill for any aspiring transactional lawyer is the ability to draft documents that pertain to different types of deals and situations. This book provides students with the opportunity to follow a merger and acquisition from the inception of the client relationship through the entire merger transaction process and its ultimate closing.

In practice, abstract antitrust concepts must be applied to specific factual settings. In practice, those facts don't arrive pre-packaged as they do in opinions and casebooks. This book provides true-to-life documents and facts from real world antitrust matters in all the important substantive areas.

Legal educators recognise the need for their students to hit the ground running when they graduate. This book is designed to helps students to do just that. It consists of nine simulations, covering a wide array of issues taught in the basic Criminal Procedure course and gives students the opportunity to learn essential lawyering skills.

Offers versatile, in-depth simulations for an experiential learning, drafting, or lawyering skills course, and can also supplement a traditional family law course. This is a uniquely specialized text that focuses on developing cultural competency for lawyers, cultivating a strong professional identity, and honing communication skills with clients.

Brings contract law to life through contemporary problems to help students build a skill set they can use in practice. The book pickpockets life for real-world documents and contemporary situations, like the pandemic, to help students learn how contract law works in practice.