Day students

• Before Monday class, read and brief Broadwell by Broadwell v. Holmes.

All students

• Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success, 3rd ed., Helene & Marshall Shapo (Recommended)
• Professionalism readings (below)
• RWA (below)
• Check Online Assignment Board and your course web pages (after you receive your MyLaw ID welcome e-mail message)

Research, Writing & Advocacy - Law 5070

Welcome to Research, Writing, and Advocacy ("RWA") for the 2011-2012 Academic Year.  The RWA program at Georgia State University College of Law is a rigorous program that prepares students for the demands of today's legal profession.  Over the course of two semesters, students draft several practice-related documents communicating their legal analysis on a variety of legal issues.  The first semester focuses primarily on objective writing, while the second semester focuses primarily on persuasive writing and oral advocacy.

Below are the fall semester course materials and the reading assignment for the first RWA class, which is held during Orientation.  If you have any questions, you may contact the RWA Director, Heather Slovensky at hslovensky@gsu.edu.

Texts

• Robin Wellford Slocum, Legal Reasoning, Writing, and Other Lawyering Skills(3d ed. 2011) ("Slocum")  
• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed.) ("The Bluebook")
• Tracy L. McGaugh, Interactive Citation Workbook for The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (2011) ("Citation Workbook")

 

RWA Orientation Class

• Read Slocum, Chapters 1-3, 6. Complete Exercise 3-1 on page 56; you are not required to complete any other exercise. 
•  Read and be prepared to discuss Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corp., Inc.  , 147 F. Supp. 2d 668 (S.D. Tex. 2001)
• Read and be prepared to discuss Parent-Teenager Exercise 

Intro to Citation Class

• Bring both citation books (The Bluebook and the Citation Workbook) to the Citation class.  There is no reading assignment for this class, however. .

Professionalism Readings

• Professionalism Readings