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program will feature a number of presentations from legal writing, clinical,
and doctrinal professors throughout the United States. Centered around
satisfying new ABA Standards 302, 303, and 304 regarding experiential learning,
the panelists will describe various classes at their institutions, from first
year legal writing classes, to upper-division classes and even coordinated
three-year writing and drafting programs. The presentations will range from
discussions of designing problem-solving through simulations, to complimentary
coordination of writing exercises into doctrinal classes, to practical
assessment of skills training, and to the factors that go into setting up
classes that will meet experimental learning guideposts and some reasons to set
up upper division, writing-heavy classes that do not meet those guideposts. Some
of the classes are transactionally-based and some are litigation-based, but all
use different methods to seek to challenge students to solve real word
problems, to augment their research capabilities, and to give our current
students more tools to become practice ready. Many of the panelists will
describe the problems they encountered in setting up these programs, as well as
the successes gained as a result of seeing them through.
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