A skills class is one that offers substantial instruction in the professional skills generally regarded as necessary for effective and responsible participation in the legal profession. All J.D. students are required to complete the skills course requirement prior to graduation. To fulfill this requirement, students may take a single two credit course, or two one credit courses. Students have a wide range of course options designed to promote fundamental lawyering skills. Each semester's registration packet designates all course offerings that satisfy the skills class requirement. In addition, students receive information about this course requirement as part of regular curriculum counseling sessions conducted by the administration. Students receive credit in all skill courses.

Skills Courses

Access to Health Care

Adoption Law Seminar

Advanced Business Organizations: Including a Comparative Perspective

Advanced Civil Procedure

Advanced Copyright Law

Advanced Corporate Law: Conducting Due Diligence

Advanced Evidence

Advanced Family Law Seminar

Advanced Issues in the Practice of School Law

Advanced Legal Research

Advanced Legal Research: Special Topics

Advanced Legal Research: Special Topics - Administrative Law

Advanced Legal Research: Special Topics: Intellectual Property Legal Research

Advanced Legal Research: Foreign and International Legal Research

Advanced Litigation Skills

Advanced Trial Advocacy with Courtroom Technology

Advanced Writing for Litigation

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Art Law Practicum

Art of In-House Legal Counseling

Business Law Center Clinic and Seminar

Business Law Center Clinic II

Business Planning

Child and Family Law Mediation

ChildLaw Fellows Seminar

ChildLaw Legislation Clinic

ChildLaw Trial Practice

Children's Legal Rights Journal Associate Editors

Children's Legal Rights Journal Executive Editors

Children's Legal Rights Journal Members

Children's Legal Rights Journal Senior Editors

Children's Summer Institute

Civitas ChildLaw Clinic

Client Counseling and Negotiations

Client Counseling Seminar

Commercial Leases: Art and Strategy

Community Law Center Clinic

Community Law Center Clinic II

Contract Negotiation and Drafting

Corboy Fellowship I

Corboy Fellowship II

Corporate Compliance Programs

Corporate Governance Law and Practice

Criminal Appellate Practicum

Directed Study

Documenting and Negotiating Finance Transactions

Education Law Practicum

Election Law

Employment Discrimination

Employment Law Counseling

Estate Planning

Externship - ChildLaw

Externship - Corporate

Externship - Criminal

Externship - Government/Agency

Externship - Health Law

Externship - Judicial

Family Law Practicum

Federal Criminal Law Seminar

Federal Litigation Practice

Federal Tax Clinic

Federal Tax Clinic II

Health Care Litigation and Medical Malpractice

Health Justice Project

Health Policy Practicum

Illinois Litigation

Intellectual Property

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Domestic Violence

International Arbitration: Public and Private

International Commercial Arbitration and the CISG

International Commercial Arbitration Practicum

International Research

Juvenile Justice Seminar

Labor Law

Leadership

Life After Innocence Practicum

Litigation Ethics

Litigation Process and Techniques

Mediation Advocacy

Mediation and Collaborative Law

Mediation Seminar

Negotiations Seminar

Patent Law Litigation

Policy Practicum: Issues in ChildLaw

Preparation and Trial of a Personal Injury Lawsuit

Pre-Trial Litigation

Real Estate Transactions

Securities Litigation and Enforcement

Skills Competition Teams

Street Law

Tax, Audits, Procedure and Ethics

The Law of Jury Selection

Trial of an Antitrust Case

Trial Practice Competitions

Trial Practice I

Trial Practice II

Trial Practice Intensive

Wills and Trust Drafting