Suffolk Law - 2018 New Student Information Guide

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Legal Practice Skills

Torts

The Legal Practice Skills Program is a two- semester, five-credit program for first year students including:

General principles, sources and policies of modern tort law, including intentional torts (such as assault, battery and false imprisonment), negligence, strict liability, and products liability. Special attention is paid to the elements of recovery in negligence, including the standard of care, duty problems, and causation, to defenses, including comparative negligence and assumption of risk, and to principles of joint liability, contribution, and imputed liability. Recent statutory changes in these tort principles are also addressed.

(a) an orientation to law school, the sources of law, and the study of law;

(b) instruction in the use of the law library and legal research tools;

(c) practice in issue analysis and the writing of legal memoranda;

(d) preparation of trial briefs and oral arguments; and

(e) an introduction to computerized legal research systems.

The program is designed to prepare the student for the writing and research work expected of the modern practitioner.

Property (Day & Evening)

A study of the acquisition, ownership, and transfer of property both personal and real, including an analysis of ownership concepts, rights of possession, donative transactions, future interests, concurrent interests, landlord and tenant issues, the conveyancing system and governmental regulations.

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