This course will focus on drafting various motions and when these motions should be utilized. The primary emphasis will be on drafting motions during a hypothetical civil trial applying the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. Each week we will cover a new motion that furthers the civil lawsuit through completion. This course will not cover post-trial motions. We may also have guest speakers who will provide practice tips for new lawyers.

Mediation is an introductory skills course with teaching about mediation and "hands on" interactive group and class activities, including participation in role-play simulations. 

In a Judicial Externship, students work off-campus in a court under the supervision of a judge. This is a course where you earn credit, learn legal skills, and learn to practice law by assisting in the adjudication of actual cases on site.

In a Civil Externship you will work off-campus in an agency, corporation or a law office under the supervision of a practicing lawyer for credit. This is a course where you earn credit, learn legal skills, and learn to practice law by assisting real clients on site.

This is the seminar portion of the Judicial Externship. It is designed to allow students to acquire the skills and methods of practice necessary for successful completion of a judicial externship. This course is designed for interactive discussions, including with guest speakers, as a supplement to the knowledge and skills students will acquire through their externship placement and the Externship Perspectives Course.

This is the seminar portion of the Civil Externship.  In this seminar students enrolled in an externship meet with other FSU College of Law externs to discuss the progress in their externships and to enhance their externship experience. The goal of the seminar is to:

- Understand how to learn from experience, observation, and reflection;

- Expand a student’s understanding of the professional and ethical obligations of lawyers, and begin to develop their own professional values, which extend beyond the codified rules of the profession;

The course will offer an introduction to constitutional and administrative law in the England. Week 1 will offer an overview of three main actors in English public law – the UK Parliament, the courts and the executive – as well as beginning to highlight some of the debates about the scope of their powers and the relationships between them. Weeks 2 and 3 will build on the first week by considering more specifically how the executive is held to account in English law.

The institutional framework of the Common Law and how that framework influenced the structure of the substantive law. Discusses the early courts; the emergence of the dominant ‘common law’ courts, King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the competing/complementary Equity jurisdiction in the Chancery; the writ system and development of the pleading forms and the methods of proof used in trials. Considers tenures, the principal Real Actions for the recovery of land at Common Law, and selected writs. There will be a 2-1/2 hr. closed-book handwritten exam.

This course examines the history, theory, and jurisprudence of the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause. It focuses on the coverage of the First Amendment and how courts protect core interests in free expression. Special attention is given to rhetorical methods of judicial interpretation with primary concentrations being on self-expression, public discourse, and the quest for truth.

This seminar explores the complex intersection of aging and the law, examining how legal frameworks both protect and impact older adults. Students will engage with core topics such as vulnerability theory, guardianship, financial exploitation and abuse, consumer protection, access to health care, dignity in aging, the aging criminal justice system, advance planning, and age discrimination.