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Practice Skills Requirement
Each student must take either Trial Advocacy or Dispute Resolution
to satisfy the skills requirement of Oak Brook College. Typically these courses will be offered during a student's fourth year.
Trial Advocacy (Law 951)
A study to develop students' courtroom skills through simulated civil and
criminal cases. Specific areas studied and practiced include pretrial preparation,
jury selection, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination,
exhibits, and objections.
- Credit hours: 4
- Course professor: William Malone
Dispute Resolution (Law 952)
A course to develop skills such as negotiation, arbitration, and mediation
through simulated exercises. Strategies and methods are examined and practiced.
- Credit hours: 4
- Course professor: Douglas McElvy
Electives
Third and Fourth Years - The electives offered will depend on student interest
and faculty availability.
Creditors' Rights/Bankruptcy (Law 921)
A study of federal bankruptcy law and the law of debtors and creditors under
the state law. Specific topics include the property of the estate, the automatic
stay, exemptions, discharge, preferences, and reorganization. Such topics
as judgment liens, executions, attachments, garnishments, and fraudulent
transfers are covered in the non-bankruptcy portion of the course.
- Credit hours: 4
- Course professor: Peter Fear
Remedies (Law 941)
A study of the nature and scope of judicial remedies, including damages,
restitution, specific performance, injunction, and declaratory relief.
- Credit hours: 3
- Course Professor: Robert Barth
Appellate Advocacy (Law 953)
This course is an elective in conjunction with Legal Research & Writing
III. Students receive instruction in techniques of oral advocacy before
an appellate court. Students who choose this elective must do so during
the second semester of their third year. Each student is required to participate
in appellate moot courts to be held concurrently with a first-year orientation
conference.
- Credit hours: 1
- Course professor: Faculty
Legal Internship (Law 955)
A student may earn up to 4 hours of academic credit for practical experience
gained by working as an intern for a judge, public prosecutor or defender,
legal aid clinic staff attorney, corporate counsel, or a private practitioner.
Students interested in obtaining credit for internship experience must submit
a written proposal with information requested by the College and obtain
approval prior to beginning the internship.
Academic credit for an internship will be awarded on a pass/fail basis, based upon
the nature of the work done and the documented time spent working. No academic
credit will be given for internships involving little or no legal research
and practical skill development.
Family Law (Law 961)
A study of the legal and Biblical foundations of marriage and the family.
Scriptural and legal perspectives will be examined regarding divorce, separation,
procedure, domestic abuse, child custody, property and support, with a practical
view toward reconciliation in Christ. Other topics include an introduction
and Biblical aspects of adoption and parent-child relations.
- Credit hours: 4
- Course professor: Larry Higgins
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