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Focus of the CPLED Program

The emphasis of the CPLED Program is on building and assessing the skills that research has shown are essential for a lawyer in the first five years of practice. Students will be expected to develop their lawyering skills and to apply the law through solving the problems of fictional clients.

The skills emphasized in the CPLED Program are:

• problem-solving
• legal research
• interviewing and advising
• negotiating
• advocacy and alternative dispute resolution

• writing
• drafting
• time management
• practice management
• ethics and professionalism