Suffolk Law Summer 2018 Student Handbook

Academic Warning

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In addition to those students who are placed on Academic Warning pursuant to the above Second-Semester Academic Standing provision, the following students will also be placed on Academic Warning, but without review by the Academic Standing Committee: i. Any student with a grade point average for the first year, ranging from 2.500 to below 2.670; ii. Any student who has at least two unsatisfactory grades for that academic year, regardless of the student’s grade point average. 1. Legal Analysis & Methods (must be taken no later than the fall semester of the student's second year) 2. Evidence 3. Trusts and Estates 4. Business Entity Fundamentals, Corporations, or LLC, Partnership & Agency (latter two courses not offered after 2016-2017 academic year) 5. Commercial Law Survey, Commercial Paper, Commercial Sales, or Secured Transactions 6. Constitutional Law/Criminal Procedure 7. Family Law (the Family Law requirement does not apply to students graduating in or before September 2017 and students graduating in January 2018 may request a waiver of this requirement) 8. Massachusetts Practice, if the student intends to take the Massachusetts bar examination in July 2017 or February 2018 9. Fundamentals of Law (must be taken in the student’s final semester) With the exception of Legal Analysis & Methods (which must be taken no later than the fall semester of the second year) and Fundamentals of Law (which must be taken in the student’s final semester), these courses may be taken at any time prior to graduation and they serve as a substitute for the Base Menu requirements that are applicable to students who are not on Academic Warning. Students on Academic Warning remain subject to all other graduation requirements. Students who receive an unsatisfactory grade in the above courses must participate in the Academic Support Program and are required to repeat the course in which the unsatisfactory grade was received. Course Guidance and Curriculum Review. Students are strongly urged to take advanced courses that serve to reinforce first-year courses in which they received unsatisfactory grades. Such courses may include advanced legal writing courses and such other courses as may be designated as appropriate by the Law Faculty. Students who are placed on Academic Warning must enroll in, and earn a satisfactory grade in, the following courses:

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