COURSE DESCRIPTION 2012 2013

Advanced Legal Writing: Consumer Class Actions and Multi-District Litigation

Prof. Julie Baker,

3 credits day; 3 credits evening.

This is a 3 credit Advanced Legal Writing course with a drafting focus. Our assignments will center on the topics of Consumer Class Actions and Multi-District Litigation (MDL). We will begin by drafting a Massachusetts 93A Demand Letter and Complaint, which will then be subsumed by (or dismissed in favor of) a larger class action/MDL. The major writing assignment will be a Summary Judgment Motion and Memorandum, the satisfactory completion of which will satisfy the Legal Writing Requirement. Summer 2011 course.

Enrollment is limited: 16

Elective Course

May Fulfill Legal Writing Requirement