Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The Second Draft
Abstract
Legal writing courses often teach oral advocacy skills with courtroom-based oral arguments, pitting plaintiff’s counsel against defendant’s counsel. However, oral advocacy skills are important for all lawyers – even those who never set foot in a courtroom. This article discusses how legal writing courses can develop oral advocacy skills by pairing traditional litigation-based oral argument exercises with transactional-based oral advocacy exercises and provides a sample exercise (which has received positive feedback from students) that professors can use to introduce transactional-based oral advocacy skills.
Publication Date
8-1-2021
Recommended Citation
Adam Eckart, From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: Transactional Oral Advocacy, 34 The Second Draft (2021).
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