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FOURTH YEAR
WILLS, TRUSTS & SUCCESSION – Law 400
Ten Weeks 5 Semester Units
This course is a two-part survey of the law of probate. Students will learn California probate law as it relates to the formation and validity of testamentary wills, intestacy succession, and disposition of probate assets. Then, students will study common law revocable and irrevocable trusts and the statutory, doctrinal and decisional law pertaining to trust creation, modification and termination, trust management, the powers, duties and obligations of trustees, and beneficiary rights.
Eight Weeks 2 Semester Units
The course provides doctrinal analysis of California Civil Procedure. Students will examine the rules regarding jurisdiction, venue, pleadings, discovery, pre-trial dispositions, trial, judgments, appellate review and prior adjudication.
Ten Weeks 5 Semester Units
Students will examine the California law relating to community, quasi-community and separate property, the division of marital assets upon divorce and death of a spouse, marital agreements, business assets, commingling of funds, property improvements, spousal liability for community and separate debts, education expenses, spousal rights to pension and disability income, lawsuit settlements, life insurance proceeds, and management and transfer of community property assets.
PROFESSINAL RESPONSIBILITY – Law 404
Eight Weeks 4 Semester Units
This course is a survey of attorneys’ legal and ethical obligations, and the standards that are attendant to the practice of law and the legal profession. Students will study California and model statutory codes and decisional law that define an attorney’s legal and ethical obligations to clients, the courts, opposing counsel and the profession. They will study various legal conflicts that may arise during client representation while fulfilling the varying roles of advocate, officer of the court, public icon and working practitioner. Students will study the business and economic aspects of the practice law, restraints on practice, the role of the judiciary and the state bar in enforcing attorney rules of professional conduct, and sanctions for violating the rules.
PRACTICAL SKILLS TRAINING – Law 405
Six Weeks 3 Semester Units
The Practical Skills Training course is a structured training program designed to help you develop the practical, day-to-day skills you will need as an entry-level lawyer. You will learn key areas of competence through everyday scenarios that parallel real-life practice.
ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING – Law 406
Four Weeks 2 Semester Units
This course will provide students with instruction related to both the concepts behind and practical applications of legal research, writing and analysis. This course will include instruction in understanding and utilizing primary sources of law including case law, statutory and constitutional law as well as secondary, non-binding sources of law. Students will also receive instruction related to the basics of legal research, both traditional and online, and its importance to the legal process. Students will be required to draft several legal documents including a legal memorandum and an appellate brief. Every week students are required to write answers to two fact patterns distributed each week. The answers the students submit for the questions will be returned with sample answers. The students’ answers will not be graded.
Our Juris Doctor degree program is a traditional law school program that is designed to prepare students for entry into the legal field and to prepare them to take the state bar examination.
- Our program provides students with the flexibility to continue to work full-time while attending law school.
- Live classroom sessions (synchronous – live interactive) will be conducted using technology that will allow instructors and students to interact directly by video, voice, and real-time chatting communication.
- Instructors and students may ask and answer questions in real-time–allowing for multiple-person interaction (more than 100).
- The live lectures are recorded and uploaded to the Student Learning Center for 24/7/365 access by students.
- Students that choose to attend the live classes (when the archive lectures are created) will be able to have an actual classroom experience, just as a student would expect in a residential law school.