Presentation skills 2TC

Writing legal advice letter Issue 4.. As for professional skills and methods: After this course, the student is expected to: - S2: Be able to write legal memos and advice letter on a cas

HANOI LAW UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

APPROVED BY PRINCIPAL

COURSE SYLLABUS PRESENTATION SKILLS FOR LAWYER

IN ADVERSARIAL CONTEXT

HÀ NỘI - 2022

HA NOI LAW UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Program: Bachelor of Laws (fulltime)

Course title: Presentation skills in adversarial context Credit points: 2

Type of the course: Optional

1 INFORMATION OF LECTURERS

- Tô Văn Hoà (Assoc Prof., PhD.), Tovanhoa@hlu.edu.vn

- Hoàng Xuân Châu (PhD.), Hoang.xuan.chau@hlu.edu.vn

- Lê Nguyễn Duy Hậu

- Mai Thị Mai

- Nguyễn Thu Trang

- Đậu Công Hiệp

- Phạm Minh Trang

Office: Room 501, Building A, Hanoi Law University

No 87, Nguyễn Chí Thanh Str., Hanoi

Telephone: 04 38352357

Open hours: 8h00 - 16h00 week-days

2 PREREQUISITE COURSES

- Constitutional law

- Civil law

- Criminal law

- Administrative law

- Legal reasoning and legal writing in legal professions

3 SUMMARY OF THE COURSE

“Presentation skills in adversarial context” is a legal methodological training course rather than a substantive law course The course provides the students with the ablity to present legal reasoning in

adversarial context, including writing legal memos and presenting oral arguments in trial context The students will get to work with real cases and in the context which is intimate to lawyers

The course is composed of five issues, which focus on two main topics:

- Writing legal memos to argue on a case

- Presenting oral arguments to the benefit of a client in a contested case

4 CONTENT OF THE COURSE

Issue 1 Introduction to legal presentation in adversarial context

Issue 2 Writing legal memos

Issue 3 Writing legal advice letter

Issue 4 Oral argument in a court room

5 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

5.1 As to substantive knowledge:

- K1: Eventhough it is not its prime purpose, after this course, the students will be able to gain in depth knowledge on a certain issues of substantive law, which are touch upon by the cases used during the course

5.2 As for professional skills and methods:

After this course, the student is expected to:

- S2: Be able to write legal memos and advice letter on a case

- S3: Be able to present effective oral argument in court room context

5.3 As for professional attitude:

- C4: After this course, the student will be more aware of some ethical rules of the legal professions, particularly the rule of loyalty to the client, critical thinking etc

6 DETAILIZED KNOWLEDGE GAINING OBJECTIVES Obj.

Issue 1

Introduct

ion to

legal

presentati

on in

adversari

al

context

1A1 Understand the

differences between

the styles of legal

writing

1A2 Understand the

connection between

legal writings and

oral presentation

1A3 Understand the

differences between

the types of legal

resolving questions

of law

1B1 Recognize

the different components of a writing process

Issue 2

Writing

office

memos

2A1 Understand the

definition of legal

memos (office

memos)

2A2 Understand the

role of office

memos in legal

correspondence

2.A.3 Understand

the role of office

memos in the daily

business of a legal

office

2B1 Be able to

recognize the differences

between the different types of office memos

2C1 Be able to

write a proper office memos on

an actual case

Issue No 3A1 Understand the 3B1 Be able to 3C1 Be able to

3 Writing

legal

advice

letter

definition of legal

advice letter

3A2 Understand the

role of legal advice

letter in legal

correspondence

3A3 Understand the

role of legal advice

letter in the daily

business of a legal

office

recognize the components of a legal advice letter

write a proper legal advice letter

on an actual case

Issue 4

Oral

argumen

t in a

court

room

4A1 Understand the

context of a

court-room trial

4A2 Understand the

role of orgal

argument in a

court-room context

4A3 Understand the

role of oral

argument vis-à-vis

legal profession

4C1 Be able to

present oral argument on an actual case effectively

7 ACCUMULATION OF OBJECTIVES

Obj.

Issue No 4 3 0 1 4

7 THE MATRIX DEMONSTRATING THE COMPATIBILITY

OF THE DETAILED LEARNING OBJECTIVES WITH CLOs

Objective Kiến thức Kỹ năng Năng lực

K1 S2 S3 T4

1A2 X X X X

8 READING MATERIALS

A BOOKS

1 Helene Sapo, Marilyn Walter, Elizabeth Fajans, Writing and analysis

in the law, 6th edition, Foundation press, 2013

2 Cathy Glaser, Jethro Lieberman et al., The lawyer’s craft – An introduction of legal analysis, writing, research, and advocacy, LexisNexis, 2002

3 Robin Slocum, Legal resoning, writing, and other lawyering skills, 3rd edition, LexisNexis, 2011

4 Linda Edwards, Legal writing and analysis, 3rd edition, Aspen Coursebook Series, Wolters Kluwer, 2011

9 FORMS OF CLASES

9.1 Oversal schedule

Wee

k

Issu

e

Forms of teaching and learning Lectu

re

Semina r

Team work

Self study Learning assessment

Partificpation in seminar

Participation in seminar

Total

= 30

credit

hours

= 15

credit hours

= 10

credit hours

= 5

credit hours

Notes: - Mid-term exam will be taken during a seminar class.

- Team assignment will be presented in a seminar class.

9.2 Detailed schedule

Week 1: Issue 1

Teaching –

Learning

form

Credit

hours Main contents Requirements for students’ preparation

Lecture 2 - Introduction to legal

presentation

- Introduction to advesarial context

The process of legal writing

- Selected pages from Sapo (2013), Glaser (2002)

Seminar 2 Persuassive and

predictive writing in different context of legal profession

- Discussion in class

Self

study

Tutoring - Content: Answering student’s questions off the class,

introducing new reference materials etc

- Time: 8.30 to 11.00 every Tuesday

- Venue: Room 502, A Building or via email

Week 2: Issue 2

Teaching –

Learning

form

Credit

hours Main contents

Requirements for students’ preparation

Lecture 2 Office memos.

Types of office memos and roles

- Selected pages from Sapo (2013), Slocum (2011)

Seminar 2 - Practicing writing office

memos

- Assigned cases, excercise

Self

study

1 - Practicing writing office

memos

- Doing excercise

Tutoring - Content: Answering student’s questions off the class,

introducing new reference materials etc

- Time: 8.30 to 11.00 every Tuesday

- Venue: Room 502, A Building or via email

Week 3: Issue 3

Teaching –

Learning

form

Credit

hours Main contents

Requirements for students’ preparation

Lecture 2 - Writing legal advice letter.

- Components of a legal advice letter

- Selected pages from Claser (2002), Slocum (2011)

Seminar 2 - Practicing writing legal

advice on an actual case

- Assigned cases

Team

work

1 - Practicing writing legal

advice on an actual case

- Assigned cases

Self

study

1 - Practicing writing legal

advice on an actual case

- Assigned cases

Tutoring - Content: Answering student’s questions off the class,

introducing new reference materials etc

- Time: 8.30 to 11.00 every Tuesday

- Venue: Room 502, A Building or via email

Week 4+5: Issue 4

Teaching –

Learning

form

Credit

hours Main contents

Requirements for students’ preparation

Lecture 2 - Oral argument in a

court room

- Rules on effective orgal argument

- Selected pages from Claser (2002)

Seminar 2 - Preparing and presenting

oral argument on an actual case

Actual cases asigned

in the class

Team

work

2 - Preparing and presenting

oral argument on an actual case

Actual cases asigned

in the class

study

1 - Preparing and presenting

oral argument on an actual case

Actual cases asigned

in the class

10 COURSE POLICY

- In accordance with the applicable regulations of the Hanoi Law University

11 LEARNING ASSESSMENT

11.1 Regular assessment

- Lecture attendance;

- Participation in seminars and team assignment

11.2 Periodical assessment

Assessing knowledge and attitudes to participate in seminar 10%

11.3 Criteria for assessment

 Assessing knowledge and attitudes to participate in seminar

- Assessing knowledge: Self-study and understand the lesson (1-7 mark)

- Attitudes to participate in seminar: negative/ positive (1-3 mark)

- Total: 10 mark

 Team assignment:

 Individual exam/paper:

- The student will be a topic or questions to do at home in form of a paper It could be to write a simple legal advice letter or to spot flaws in a given legal advice letter

- Alternatively, the student may be asked to conduct a 1-hour written exam in the class For this alternative, the student will be given a

simple case and asked to apply a legal regulation to resolve the case.

 Participation:

- Those students who attend all the classes will receive 7 points Missing one class will take away 1 point from the student

- During each seminar those who participate actively in the discusssion will be given 1 point as a bonus; those who do not participate or fail to answer a question given to them will be taken away 1 point

- The maximum grade for participation is 10

 Final exam

- Condition to participate in the final exam:

+ Students participate in 75% or more of the prescribed hours for each theory or seminar part

+ Team assignment or individual exam must be greater than 0

- Form: Written exam (120 minutes length)

- Content: All issueses given in class and other self-studied issues, including all learning objectives listed in Section 6 of this Outline

- Criteria to assess the final exam:

+ Showing good understanding of the knowlege learned during the course;

+ Understandable argumentation;

+ Clearness in the language used

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1 INFORMATION OF LECTURERS 2

2 PREREQUISITE COURSES 2

3 SUMMARY OF THE COURSE 2

5 LEARNING OBJECTIVES 3

7 ACCUMULATION OF OBJECTIVES 5

9 FORMS OF CLASES 7