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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