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Utilize proper, industry-recognized structure, wording, grammar, punctuation, and citation in all written work product
Assessment Strategies
Written product and team projects
Criteria
Work product is written using the appropriate structure specified by the instructor
Work product shows evidence of professional level of accuracy in grammar, spelling and punctuation
Work product includes bias-free wording
Work product accurately cites to primary and/or secondary sources of law in accordance with Harvard Bluebook’s Uniform System of Citation
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Analyze a range of common legal documents/professional written work product
Assessment Strategies
Team projects
Criteria
Identify a range of legal documents’ primary audience, purpose, tone, and content/scope
Select appropriate document that is the best fit to accomplish clients’ goals
Analysis/Work is conducted in a team environment to ensure accountability and full compliance with client confidentiality and other applicable ethical standards
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Critique/edit common legal documents
Assessment Strategies
Team projects
Criteria
Critiques/edits improve the overall clarity, conciseness, completeness and accuracy of original draft documents provided
Critiques/edits account for bias-free wording alternatives
Critiques/edits demonstrate logical application of professional discretion to appropriately address necessary substantive changes vs. optional stylistic edits to original source material
Critiques/edits are completed in a time-sensitive team environment that parallels a real-world law office setting
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Analyze the meaning and applicability of case law and other primary and secondary sources of law
Assessment Strategies
Written product and team projects
Criteria
Analysis assists in resolving clients’ legal problems
Analysis demonstrates a professional level of understanding of what body of law governs/applies to particular fact patterns
Analysis logically and accurately applies governing law to specific facts, expressing a likely outcome
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Organize all professional writing into an analytical form
Assessment Strategies
Written product and team projects
Criteria
Document organization enables a quick/clear understanding of the client’s legal problem and its proposed resolution
Document organization logically flows from section to section ensuring that all elements of the legal problem(s) are fully addressed
Document organization is concise, eliminating all unnecessary words
Document organization is focused, avoiding ancillary subject matter
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Recognize vital ethical questions linked to various types of legal correspondence, memoranda, and externally-filed documents
Assessment Strategies
Written product and team projects
Criteria
Work product/documents fully comply with all applicable rules of professional conduct
Work product/documents resulted from a strategic process designed to ensure full compliance with all applicable rules of professional conduct
Discuss/develop strategies to ensure accountability and remedy mistakes relating to any lapse in compliance with rules of professional conduct
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Compose internally-used legal documents
Assessment Strategies
Written product and team projects
Criteria
Work product/documents are clear, concise, complete and accurate
Work product/documents fully comply with applicable rules of professional conduct
Work product/documents assist the office legal team to properly diagnose / address / resolve clients’ legal problems
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Compose legal documents for filing with the court
Assessment Strategies
Written product and team projects
Criteria
Work product/documents are clear, concise, complete and accurate
Work product/documents fully comply with applicable rules of professional conduct
Work product/documents appropriately advocate on clients’ behalf with goal of persuading the court to resolve disputed questions of law, or fact, or both, in favor of our clients
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Analyze the role of inequalities and underrepresentation during the jury selection process
Assessment Strategies
Written product
Criteria
Describe U.S. Supreme Court and Wisconsin Supreme Court case law precedent related to bias in the jury selection process
You meet minimum requirements for case law quizzes connected to each case
Case brief concerning the most recent U.S. Supreme Court jury selection case: Flowers v. Mississippi 588 U.S. ___ (2019) is written to instructor specifications and/or rubric