• LAW 926: Negotiation

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Introduction to skills and techniques that lawyers need to negotiate effectively in both transactional and litigation contexts. Will learn about factors affecting negotiations, including personality styles and verbal and non-verbal communication styles and will be exposed to different negotiation models. After engaging in the important process of negotiation planning, students will perform and record simulated negotiations based upon multiple hypothetical fact patterns. Will complete a post-negotiation evaluation and will review their negotiation with their student colleagues and their professor. Will also attend a series of plenary lectures addressing fundamental concepts in negotiations, including ethical issues that arise during negotiations.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 929: Interviewing and Counseling

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Will introduce and allow students to practice and hone the professional skills involved in interviewing clients and prospective witnesses and in counseling clients. After introduction to the fundamental skills and the conceptual models of interviewing and counseling, students will develop their skills by analyzing, preparing, and performing simulated interviewing and counseling exercises. The students’ performances are recorded, reviewed, and evaluated by their colleagues and their professors. Will also encounter and discuss the ethical issues that arise during interviewing and counseling.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 930: Ediscovery

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Introduces students to electronic discovery (ediscovery) in civil litigation. Students will handle every aspect of ediscovery in a simulated case, including participating in a 26(f) conference, drafting and responding to discovery requests, preparing a privilege log, and conducting a document review using ediscovery software. Students will study recent ediscovery cases and other developments in the law. Members of the bench and bar will sometimes participate in class discussions. Each student will make a presentation in which the student will propose a solution to an emerging problem in ediscovery practice. Students must have a laptop computer or other device that meets the requirements necessary to operate the ediscovery software used in the simulated case. (These requirements will be communicated at registration).(DE) Prerequisite(s): 921.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 931: Social Media Discovery

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Examines the discoverability of social media data in pretrial civil litigation, including the different approaches courts take to discovery of content posted to platforms like Facebook or Snapchat. Will also explore the privacy issues involved, the ethical constraints on attorney conduct, and the impact social media has on the litigation process. In addition to learning more about the law of discovery, students in this simulation course will represent a mock client, correspond with opposing counsel, draft and serve discovery requests, and, for the final project, prepare a complete pretrial motion.Grading Restriction(s): Numeric grading (law students); A-F grading (graduate students).Registration Restriction(s): JD students only or with Instructor Permission.
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• LAW 933: Elder Law

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Offers a holistic, real world practical approach to introduce the practice of elder law. Students, through the use of case studies unique to each student, develop a cohesive client plan, which requires the student to consider issues surrounding health care benefits, insurance coverage, real and personal property ownership, estate and tax planning, advanced care planning, and levels of care. Will discuss ethical and cultural issues impacting the elderly, including end of life issues, the effects of dementia on decision-making, removal of rights of incapacitated persons, and how race, age, gender, ethnicity and religious affiliation affect long term care for seniors.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 935: Wills and Trusts

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Gifts; will substitutes; nature, creation, termination and modification of trusts; intestate succession; execution, revocation, probate and contest of wills; statutory protections against disinheritance; and introduction to powers of appointment, basic problems of will construction, powers of attorney, and planning for disability and death.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 937: Estate Planning Seminar

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Estate planning problems: relationship to estate planning of law and practice of fiduciary administration, insurance, property, wills, future interests, trusts, corporations, and partnerships. Required drafting of estate plans and implementing documents.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 935 and 973.Recommended Background: 818.Comment(s): Limited enrollment.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 940: Real Estate Finance Law

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Financing devices: mortgages, deeds of trust and land contracts; problems of priorities; transfer of secured interests when debt assumed or taken subject to security interest; default, exercise of equity of redemption and/or statutory right of redemption; mechanics' and material men's liens; contemporary developments in areas as condominiums, cooperatives, housing subdivisions, and shopping centers.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 941: Real Estate Transactns Seminar

  2.00 - 3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Simulated representation of some of the various parties – sellers, buyers, real estate agents, tenants, acquisition lenders, construction lenders, permanent lenders, architects, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and others – in the acquisition, financing, development, refinancing, leasing, or other use of real estate. Negotiation and drafting of some of the documents that are central to large real estate transactions.Repeatability: Not repeatable. May be taken once for 2 or 3 hours.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 940.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 942: Title Law

  1.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  A practical course in the practice of real property and title law, with special emphasis on drafting documents, searching title to real property, preparation of title opinions, issuing title insurance, reading surveys and drafting legal descriptions, and conducting escrow closings. Will gain a working knowledge of handling a real estate transaction from inception to completion, including the issuance of title insurance. Will engage in closing simulations.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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