Weaver, Abrams, and Turner Roberts's Family Law Simulations: Bridge to Practice, 2d

Family Law Simulations offers versatile, in-depth simulations for an experiential learning, drafting, or lawyering skills course, and can also supplement a traditional family law course. Contemporary fact patterns present students with “bread and butter” lawyering tasks on behalf of a diverse set of clients. Students will interview and consult with clients, draft pleadings and client correspondence, strategize about discovery, argue motions, negotiate, and mediate. The book further develops a sustained knowledge of the governing ethical rules and explores the interdisciplinary nature of family law and its intersections with other legal specializations. Family Law Simulations is also a uniquely specialized text that focuses on developing cultural competency for lawyers, cultivating a strong professional identity, and honing communication skills with clients. Several fact patterns continue throughout the book to allow students to experience the arc of a family law case. Students represent clients in different states, applying actual family statutes, supplemented by practice guidance materials and independent research. There are also statutory highlights throughout the book that allow professors to substitute their state statutes for the simulations and/or compare the state family code where they are teaching to the state family codes in the book. This multifaceted text meets the varied and complex needs of modern family law classrooms.