Basic Practice Track
General Practice Concentration
Concentration Advisor: Professor Rona Kaufman and Professor Katherine Norton
In addition to completing required first-year courses, Corporations, Evidence, and Professional Responsibility, students wishing to fulfill the General Practice Concentration- Basic Track must complete four additional courses in the upper level curriculum, as follows:
Required Courses
Choose at least two:
Employment Law
Estates and Trusts
Family Law
Trial Advocacy
Trial Advocacy I- Trial Team
Elective Courses
Choose two additional courses from below (or required courses above):
Simulation Courses
Advanced Legal Writing: Law Firm Simulation
Estates and Trusts Skills Simulation
PA Pretrial Civil Litigation Simulation
Pleading & Discovery Simulation
Trial Advocacy
Trial Advocacy I- Trial Team
Clinics and Externships
Government Externship*
High-credit Externship*
Judicial Externship*
Non-profit Externship*
Upper-Level Writing Course
Advanced Legal Writing: Legal Drafting
Appellate Practice and Procedure
Bankruptcy
Directed Research*
PA Pretrial Civil Litigation Simulation
Other Courses
Accounting for Lawyers
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Basic Federal Income Taxation
Business Planning
Contract Drafting Simulation
E-Discovery Simulation
Federal Civil Procedure
Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Negotiation Skills
Oil and Gas Law
Pennsylvania Civil Procedure
Remedies at Law and in Equity
Research for Law Practice
*Requires approval of Concentration Advisor after consultation with faculty member supervising the clinic/externship/paper.