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LA 242 Advanced Legal Writing and Document Preparation Course Objectives:

Students will learn:

1. How Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw and Internet sources are utilized in legal research.
2. How to draft a response to a legal problem in a grammatically correct, intelligible manner.
3. How to draft a legal document, including a contract, will, complaint and/or other legal material.
4. How to draft, under the civil process, discovery requests, including but not limited to:
   • Interrogatories;
   • Deposition notices;
   • Requests for production of documents; and
   • Requests for admissions.
5. The need to make legal documents lawfully correct while simple so that they can be easily understood.