Overview

Hofstra Law School is committed to providing students with classroom training in how to think like a lawyer, and skills and simulation-based training, which teaches students how to practice like a lawyer. The skills courses are ones in which the emphasis is on active participation by the student, who performs the skill under the watchful eye of experienced faculty who give immediate and constructive critique.

Skills training is offered in the semester-long course format, and also during the mid-session break (early January) and May, June and August in the intensive format of meeting all day, every day, for a 3- to 11-day format.

The skills courses offered during either the fall or spring semesters include:

• Advanced Appellate Advocacy
• Advanced Trial Advocacy
• Advanced Trial Techniques: Use of Expert Witnesses
• Business Drafting
• Domestic Violence Seminar
• Family Law Practice Workshop
• Introduction to Child and Family Advocacy
• Legal Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation
• Moot Court Competition Seminar
• Negotiation, Mediation and the Family Lawyer
• Pretrial Litigation
• Pretrial Skills
• The Prosecutor's Role: Prosecuting a Criminal Case
• Real Estate Negotiation Techniques

The skills courses, which are offered in an intensive format during the mid-session break (early January) or after finals and during the summer, include:

• Business Drafting
• Deposition and Discovery: I and II
• Developing a Theory of the Case
• Direct/Cross Examination Skills Intensive
• Introduction to Child and Family Advocacy
• Introduction to Divorce Practice
• Litigation and Drafting Skills
• Mediation Principles and Practice
• Modern Divorce Advocacy
• Motion to Suppress
• Trial Techniques

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