Marquette Law School offers many opportunities for students to gain practical skills. Our upper level curriculum is both rich and diverse in its offerings, including traditional classroom courses, seminars, workshops, perspectives and advanced legal research courses. Students are encouraged to maximize the benefits which can be derived from the curriculum, satisfying degree requirements and course prerequisites, and otherwise developing lawyering competencies. In particular, the Law School’s litigation program and our nationally recognized dispute resolution program offer a broad array of skills courses, workshops and experiential learning opportunities. By definition, workshops are experiential learning.
The Law School’s many skills-based courses and workshops include:*
- Advanced Brief Writing
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate Writing and Advocacy
- Arbitration
- Asylum Law
- Bankruptcy Jurisdiction and Procedure
- Business Bankruptcy
- Business Planning
- Child Abuse
- Civil Pretrial Practice
- Contract Drafting
- Drafting Employee Benefits Plans
- Drafting the Wisconsin Real Estate Transaction
- Environment Practice
- Family Law and ADR
- Family Practice and Procedure
- Green Bay Prison Initiative
- Guardian ad Litem
- Interviewing and Counseling
- Mediation Advocacy
- Mental Health Law
- Milwaukee Street Law Project
- Negotiating Business Transactions
- Probate Procedure
- Prosecutor Workshop
- Public Defender Workshop
- Trial Advocacy
- Workshop in Civil Dispute Resolution
*Be sure to review the complete list of current course offerings.