Course Description
An overview of drafting non-litigation documents. Students will develop the skills required to draft statutes, will, and contracts. The course also focuses on gathering information to provide a factual basis for the preparation of such documents and drafting such documents within the existing legal framework.
Athena Title
Legal Drafting MSL
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will understand how to identify and correct ambiguities, grammar and language problems, and structural problems in statutes/ordinances/rules, wills, and contracts drafted by attorneys.
- Students will understand how to obtain information necessary to draft statutes, wills, and contracts from a client and suggest a course of action to the client.
- Students will understand how to collaborate in a group setting on the creation and drafting of a document.
- Students will understand and apply the rules of construction that are applied by courts in the review of statutes/ordinances/rules, wills, and contracts drafted by attorneys.
- Students will understand how to identify facts necessary to draft a simple will for a client.
- Students will understand how to draft a simple statute/ordinance/rule.
- Students will understand how to draft a simple will for a client.
- Students will understand how to draft a simple contract.
- Students will understand how to create and give a short presentation on a specific document to a group.
Topical Outline
- Drafting Overview
- Drafting Statutes
- Drafting Wills
- Drafting Contracts
