Civil Litigation

Courses

CLI-1015: Clinic: Civil Advocacy

Credits 2 5
Students take full responsibility for representing clients under the close supervision of faculty. The course focuses on the challenges of representing real people in real matters in an ethical, reflective, and creative way. Goals include developing a critical understanding of legal process and a contextual understanding of clients’ legal problems. Students interview and counsel clients, investigate facts, negotiate disputes, prepare trial memos and motions, and conduct administrative hearings and court trials. Cases cover a variety of subject areas, including landlord-tenant, unemployment compensation, employment, and consumer matters. The current affordable housing crisis has led to some focus on housing matters, including policy research and recommendations to neighborhood organizations and the City of St. Paul. Students meet weekly in seminar and also meet individually with faculty for supervision. Some required activities (such as court appearances, investigation, and community meetings) take place during normal business hours, but most students are able to combine this clinic's work with their own employment and care-giving responsibilities. PreReq: LAW- 2015 Take 1 as additional PreReq: LAW- 2002, LAW 2002, LAW- 2003

CLI-1020: Clinic: Economic Inclusion

Credits 3

The Economic Inclusion Clinic is designed to give students experience in both transactional law and with some exposure to litigation as it pertains to preparation and evidence gathering for economic discrimination cases brought by impact litigation co-counsel. The EIC would focus various areas where there are disparities in access to opportunities, including but not limited to the following: · Financial Literacy Segment. This area would focus on the legal aspects of financial literacy. While I have found multiple organizations providing financial literacy covering what banks are looking for, I have yet to find materials that focus on the legal perspective, i.e., what banks are allowed to actually do and what many claim they are required by law to do. Students would provide financial literacy either in the form of one-on-one legal counsel, or community Know Your Rights workshops, in tandem with community-based partners who would organize workshops with grassroots partners that would recruiting the attendees and clients. Students would also draft model legislation. All deliverables would be combined and shared on the EIC’s website. Students would learn Dodd-Frank laws and regs, get client experience teaching legal workshops, and legislative experience drafting statutes and working with lobbyists and legislatures. · Mortgage Discrimination litigation. The DOJ recently announced a campaign to tackle racial discrimination in mortgage lending. The clinic could work in tandem with this campaign to counsel clients and assist in fact gathering. This would give the students experience both in litigation and transactional law. · Social Entrepreneurship counseling and support. This piece would focus on working with potential existing social enterprises in structuring deals, or those needing legal counsel who are interested in undergoing B-labs certification, state benefit corporation incorporation, or forming as another hybrid business org structures with a double bottom line. Essentially, it would provide the students transactional legal experience working for businesses or nonprofits with a double bottom line of being financially sustainable while addressing an important community-based issue. This clinic is by consent of the instructor. Contact Professor Kim Vu-Dinh kim.vu-dinh@mitchellhamline.edu for pre-approval. Students may not register for more than one clinic during the same semester without the consent of both instructors. Students may participate remotely in this clinic, except for the in-person orientation. For students who participate remotely, this clinic is considered a distance education course and credits earned will count toward distance education courses. Students may take up to 41 credits under the 83-credit requirement (43 under the 86-credit requirement) toward their J.D. degree through courses that are designated "distance education courses." For more information about this clinic, students should consult the information on the clinic webpage: https://mitchellhamline.edu/clinics/economic- inclusion-clinic/ A three-day orientation will be required for this clinic; exact details will be provided in the applicant interview. PreReq: LAW- 2015

CLI-1055: Clinic: Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners

Credits 1 4

Students provide civil representation to indigent persons incarcerated in Minnesota. Students represent clients from interview through any trial. Cases include domestic relations, imprisonment-related matters (institutional grievances, parole, and detainers), and the full range of other civil problems including debtor-creditor, wills, contracts, torts, and civil rights issues. Students generally take the Clinic for two semesters; as a result, students in their final semester of law school cannot register for the LAMP Clinic for the first time without the express permission of the instructor. This clinic may be taken for 3 or 4 credits. Students may not register for more than one clinic during the same semester without the consent of both instructors. The classroom component of this course meets in-person. For more information about this clinic, students should consult the information on the clinic webpage: https://mitchellhamline.edu/clinics/lamp-legal-assistance-to-minnesota-prisoners/ PreReq: LAW- 2015 Take 1 as additional PreReq: LAW- 2000, LAW- 2001, LAW- 2002

LAW-1000: Civil Dispute Resolution

Credits 4
Required. Provides an introduction to the civil justice system in the United States and the various methods of resolving disputes. Topics include: the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, pleading, adjudication by motion, litigation and non-litigation remedies, personal and subject matter jurisdiction, choice of law between judge and jury, post-trial proceedings, judicial review, preclusive effects of judgments, and simple and complex joinder mechanisms. First year/foundational course, no online registration.

LAW-2020: Transactions & Settlements: Drafting Agreements and Making Deals

Credits 3
This skills course teaches negotiation, drafting, and client counseling in both the transactional and litigation contexts. The course focuses on how lawyers represent clients in negotiating and drafting contracts and settlement agreements. The course also covers ethical issues arising in deal-making. Examples are drawn from actual cases and deals from a variety of contexts, including business, civil rights, employment law, the entertainment industry, public affairs, and general litigation, and applied through simulations, short case studies, exercises, and class discussion.

LAW-3115: Con Crim Pro: Investigation

Credits 3
Provides an introduction to federal constitutional limitations on governmental power to investigate crime, including stopping and detaining people, arrest, frisks, searches and seizures, custodial interrogations, right to counsel, identification procedures, and confrontation.

LAW-3235: Food Labeling and Advertising: Law & Litigation Fundamentals

Credits 2
A study of food labeling and marketing related laws in the United States, including FDA, USDA, FTC and state consumer protection laws and regulations, public and private enforcement. The course will include a discussion on free-speech constitutional limitations, claims like [non-GMO, natural, organic] as well as current ethical issues and industry practices. If time permits, aspects of international labeling and marketing will be included.

LAW-3490: Remedies

Credits 2
You have obtained the knowledge and tools to determine and litigate when a breach of contract exists or tortious conduct has occurred. Do you know how to get your client what they want? Remedies is a course for the pragmatically-minded attorney who wants to understand the answer to the question, "The law was violated; so now what?" In this course we seek to close the gap between the theoretical concepts of the law and the substantive remedies available to your client. Current case examples will be utilized, along with relevant cases from the text, to consider possible legal and equitable remedies available in various situations.

This is a dialogue-driven course, and includes the opportunity to draft and receive feedback on a pleading and proposed order related to a specific remedy considered in class. Remedies is often necessary for the bar exam to be able to fully answer what types of damages are available to your client - monetary or equitable.

LAW-4000: Advanced Civil Dispute Resolution

Credits 3
This course will cover important aspects of advanced civil procedure including study of the theory and practice of class-action litigation, multi-district litigation, and appeals. The course provides deeper analysis of topics including conflict of laws, federal jurisdiction, forum selection, and litigation funding. PreReq: LAW-1000

LAW-4003: Advanced Advocacy: Civil Litigation

Credits 3
Covers all aspects of advocacy involved in jury trials, bench trials, administrative hearings, and arbitration. Students learn by performing videotaped exercises in every class, and are critiqued by experienced lawyers and judges. The course covers case preparation, opening statements, direct examination, cross-examination, exhibits, expert witnesses, jury selection, summation, and advocacy ethics. Cases cover a range of civil and criminal problems. Students prepare written questions, outlines, and a trial brief, and try a complete bench trial or arbitration case and a full-day jury trial. Offered as a full-semester course during the fall and spring semesters, and in a concentrated format during summer session. Take 1 as PreReq: LAW-2000, LAW- 2002, & LAW- 2003