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Curriculum and Requirements

The curriculum is designed to provide each law student with the basic knowledge essential for a successful practitioner while also providing opportunities for individual concentration in specialized areas of the law.

Day & Evening Divisions

Juris Doctor Day and Evening Divisions

The Day Division of Suffolk University Law School comprises approximately 1,000 students. Day Program students are able to substantially devote all their time to the study of law. This program requires the traditional three years (six semesters) to complete.

The Evening Division is designed for students who want to pursue a legal education on a part-time basis. It can be completed in four years (eight semesters) of part-time study. Evening Division students are awarded the same degree as that earned by Day Division students. First year Evening Division students usually attend classes three evenings a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, beginning at 6:00 pm.

Day and Evening Division applicants are only accepted into the regular degree-seeking program. Applicants may not audit courses or apply for a conditional acceptance. A total of 84 semester hours is required to earn the JD degree.

As a candidate for admission you must choose to apply to either the Day or the Evening Division. Students who have completed the first academic year in the Law School, and who are in good academic standing, are eligible to transfer internally to either the Day or the Evening division.

Program of Legal Study

Program of Study Juris Doctor (JD)

The study of law requires an ability to analyze and organize complicated fact situations. The law faculty assist students in learning how to approach a complicated fact pattern either through the study of adjudicated cases or the use of carefully constructed problems. Students are challenged by the questions and comments of the professor and their fellow students as they work with cases or problems. From time to time the professor may clarify or lecture on some points of fact or law, but the ultimate responsibility for developing the skills of legal analysis rests on the student.

It is the student’s role to prepare the course assignments carefully, to utilize the resources available in the law libraries, to attend class and be prepared to actively discuss the assigned materials. In class, students must analyze the presentation of their classmates, compare the work of others to their own, and be prepared to respond intelligently to the questions asked by the professor. Thus, students’ roles are active ones, and the value of their legal education will depend in large measure on the enthusiasm, dedication and responsibility with which they approach their work.

  • For Evening Students

    EVENING DIVISION REQUIREMENTS

    Students who cannot devote a substantial portion of time to the study of law may apply for enrollment in the Evening Division and complete the work for the Juris Doctor degree in four years (eight semesters).

    Semester Hour Requirements

    The academic year consists of two semesters: the first, or fall, semester commencing in August, and the second, or spring, semester commencing in January. The Evening Division requires eight semesters of class work. A total of 84 semester hours is required to receive the Juris Doctor degree.

    Class Hours

    Classes in the Evening Division are usually conducted on weeknights between 6 and 10 pm.

    Evening Division Requirements

                Required Curriculum                   

     1st

    Sem.

    Hours

     2nd

    Sem.

    Hours

     First-Year

     Contracts 1  2  3
       Torts  0  4
       Civil Procedure 1    2  2
       Criminal Law  4  0
       Legal Practice Skills  3  2
       Total  11  11
         

         

     Second-Year  Property  2  2
       Constitutional Law  2  2
       Professional Responsiblity 3    
       Base Menu/Electives 4,5,6,7,8  4-7  5-8
       Total  9-12  9-12
           
     Third-Year  Base Menu 4    
       Electives 5,6,7,8    
       Total  9-12  9-12
           
     Fourth-Year  Base Menu 4    
       Electives 5,6,7,8    
       Total  9-12  9-12

     

    Notes:

    1. Courses will have final exams in both the Fall and Spring semesters. See Rules and Regulations, Section III, Grades and Examinations.
    2. Evening students may not enroll in fewer than 9 credits nor more than 12 credits in a semester, and may not enroll in fewer than 21 credits nor more than 24 credits in the academic year. Note: No more than 12 credits from clinical programs may be counted toward the degree.
    3. Professional Responsibility is a required course. It must be taken by Day Division and Evening Division students any time after the first year.
    4. Students are required to take at least three out of five Base Menu Subjects.
    5. Including required courses and the Base Menu requirement, students must complete a minimum of 84 credits in order to receive the Juris Doctor degree.
    6. Students must complete the Legal Writing Requirement. (See Rules and Regulations Section II H)
    7. Students must satisfy the Skills Menu Requirement; recommended to take courses from the Perspectives Menu.
    8. Students must complete 6 Experiential Learning credits.

     

  • For Day Students

    DAY DIVISION REQUIREMENTS

    The Day Division course of study consists of three academic years of full-time study. Under the regulations of the Law School, Standards of the American Bar Association, and the Rules of the Board of Bar Examiners of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, only those students who can devote substantially all of their working time to the study of law are eligible to enroll in the full-time Day Division and to complete their law study in three years.

    Semester Hour Requirements

    The academic year consists of two semesters: the first, or fall, semester commencing in September, and the second, or spring, semester commencing in January. The Day Division requires six semesters of class work. A total of 84 semester hours is required to receive the Juris Doctor degree.

    Day Division Requirements 

               Required Curriculum

    1st

    Sem.

    Hours 

    2nd

    Sem.

    Hours 

     First-Year  Contracts 1  2  3
       Torts  0  4
       Property 1  2  2
       Civil Procedure  4  0
       Criminal Law  4  0
       Constitutional Law 9  0  4
       Legal Practice Skills  3  2
       Total  15  15
           
     Second-Year  Professional Responsibility 3    
       Base Menu 4    
       Electives 5,6,7,8    
       Total  12-16  12-16
           
     Third-Year  Base Menu 4    
       Electives 5,6,7,8    
       Total  12-16  12-16

    Notes:

    1. Courses will have final exams in both the Fall and Spring semesters. See Rules and Regulations, Section Grades and Examinations.
    2. Second- and third-year students may not enroll in fewer than 12 credits nor more than 16 credits in a semester, and may not enroll in fewer than 27 credits nor more than 30 credits in the academic year. NOTE: No more than 12 credits from clinical programs/externships may be counted toward the degree.
    3. Professional Responsibility is a required course. It must be taken by Day Division and Evening Division students any time after the first year.
    4. Students are required to take at least three out of five Base Menu Subjects.
    5. Including required courses and the Base Menu requirement, students must complete a minimum of 84 credits in order to receive the Juris Doctor degree.
    6. Students must complete the Legal Writing Requirement. (See Rules and Regulations Section II H).    
    7. Students must satisfy the Skills Menu Requirement; recommended to take courses from the Perspectives Menu.
    8. Students must complete 6 Experiential Learning credits.
    9. Day students who have received conditional admission to the dual degree J.D./Tax LL.M. program may defer taking Constitutional Law until the second semester of their second year in order to take Basic Federal Income Tax in the second semester of the first year.

     

Learning Outcomes

Suffolk University Law School Learning Outcomes

Adopted by the Suffolk University Law School Faculty in April 2017

These learning outcomes identify the desired knowledge, skills, and values Suffolk University Law School believes its students should master upon their successful graduation.

A. In accordance with ABA Standard 302(A), the successful Suffolk graduate should know and understand substantive and procedural law.  Specifically, graduates should:

  1. Learn the fundamental principles of Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Professional Responsibility, Property, and Torts.
  2. Comprehend substantive and procedural law through elective coursework appropriate to the professional and intellectual interests of each student.

B. In accordance with ABA Standard 302(B), the successful Suffolk graduate should be able to perform legal analysis and legal research, solve problems, and communicate effectively in the legal context.  Specifically, graduates should demonstrate the ability to:

  1. Analyze legal issues orally and in writing by critically reading legal authority, synthesizing rules, evaluating facts, applying law to facts, and solving problems.
  2. Conduct accurate, thorough, and efficient legal research.
  3. Communicate in a concise, organized, professional, and timely manner appropriate to the audience and circumstances.

C. In accordance with ABA Standard 302(C), the successful Suffolk graduate should understand and exercise proper professional and ethical responsibilities to clients and the legal system. Specifically, graduates should demonstrate the ability to:

  1. Identify ethical issues and resolve them in a manner consistent with the law and rules governing lawyers.
  2. Maintain practice competencies through knowledge of relevant law, development of applicable skills, and understanding current practice technologies.
  3. Understand and apply a lawyer’s ethical duties to clients, including those associated with client centered representation in a world of diverse clients.
  4. Fulfill the public responsibilities of lawyers.

D. In accordance with ABA Standard 302(D), the successful Suffolk graduate should demonstrate other professional skills needed for competent and ethical participation as a member of the legal profession.  Specifically, graduates should demonstrate the ability to:

  1. Develop and analyze facts.  
  2. Counsel clients.
  3. Negotiate on behalf of clients.
  4. Engage in self-evaluation toward life-long professional development, competence, and well-being.         

General Requirements

For more information on general requirements, please see Rules & Regulations.  

Base Menu

Juris Doctor Base Menu Requirement

After the first year of study, the curriculum consists of a Base Menu and Advanced Electives. The Base Menu reflects the faculty’s belief that although students may begin their professional lives in very varied settings, there are fundamentals to the law as a whole that cannot be ignored.

Students are required to take one course within three out of the five following subject categories:

Administrative/Regulatory Law

  • Administrative Law
  • Antitrust Law
  • Banking Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Environmental Law Survey
  • Labor Law
  • Securities Regulation
  • Energy, Natural Resources

Commercial Law

  • Commercial Law Survey
  • Commercial Law Sales and Leases
  • Commercial Paper/Payment Systems
  • Secured Transactions

Business Associations & Agency

  • Business Entity Fundamentals

Evidence

  • Evidence

Basic Income Tax

  • Basic Income Tax

All students must enroll in 3 out of 5 of the Base Menu Subject Areas
Any one or any number of these courses will satisfy the Base Menu Requirement for that subject only.

Experiential Learning & Professional Development Requirements/Guidelines

Experiential Learning & Professional Development Requirements

Guidelines for Completion

STUDENTS ENTERING FALL 2015 OR LATER are subject to the Experiential Learning and Professional Development Requirements.

Prior to graduation, every student must satisfactorily complete:

  1. Six credits of upper-level experiential learning courses in accord with ABA Standards 303 & 304,
  2. Two continuing legal education seminars, and
  3. A minimum of 50 hours of practice-based learning completed through in any of the following ways:    
    • First Year Summer Internship Program- Judicial placement;
    • 50 hours of legal work completed through the Pro Bono Program; or
    • 50 hours of legal work completed through the supervision of an attorney.

Upon completion of Sections 2 and 3 of this requirement, all students must submit certification of completion to the Office of Academic Services.

Part-time students in the Evening Division are exempt from section 3 of the requirement, but are encouraged to complete it.

Guidelines for completing Section 1:

Experiential opportunities are essential in preparing to be ready to work with real clients solving real legal problems. Toward that end, students are required to complete six (6) credits of experiential courses in order to graduate. Experiential courses fall into three categories: (1) a law clinic that provides students with substantial lawyering experiences that involve advising or representing actual clients; (2) an externship that includes a field placement that provides students with a substantial lawyering experience that is reasonably similar to that of a lawyer advising or representing clients or engaging in other lawyering tasks, as well as a classroom component; and (3) a simulation course in which students are provided substantial experiences similar to those of lawyers advising or representing clients or engaging in other lawyering tasks in a set of facts and circumstances devised or adopted by faculty.

All experiential education courses (clinics, externships, and simulations) will conform with ABA Standards 303 and 304.

Guidelines for completing Section 2:

It is important for law students to develop an appreciation for the importance of continuing legal education (CLE) and become active members of the legal community. To promote law student professional development, the Law School requires every student to attend two continuing legal education seminars prior to graduation. Students are encouraged to attend member free programming delivered through the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations identified as “Suffolk PDR,” but may attend any program offered through other CLE providers that meet these guidelines. In order for a CLE seminar to qualify as satisfying Section 2, the program must: (1) have a minimum duration of 75 minutes; (2) provide professional education for licensed lawyers related to substantive law, practice and procedure, lawyer ethics and the rules of professional conduct, practical experiences in legal practice, and/or current cutting-edge issues related to legal practice and the delivery of legal service; and 3) be delivered live and attended in person. Students must register for each CLE program prior to attending and are responsible for obtaining a certificate of completion and submitting it to the Office of Academic Services. CLE qualification questions should be addressed to your PCD counselor or the Associate Dean for Professional & Career Development.

Guidelines for completing Section 3:

Practical work experience is an essential part of legal training. Students may satisfy the practice-based learning requirement by completing a minimum of 50 hours of legal work under the supervision of an attorney through part-time or summer employment, the Law School’s Pro Bono Program, and/or a First Year Summer Internship Program- Judicial placement. All Day Division students must submit one or more completed Professional Development Requirement Form - Employment Certifications to the Office of Academic Services after they complete 50 hours of paid or volunteer work for a licensed attorney or judge.

Professional Development Requirement Form

Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning Definitions and Requirements

 

ABA Standards 303 and 304 require all students entering law school beginning in fall 2015 to complete six credits of experiential courses in order to graduate.

Experiential courses fall into three categories.

  1. A Law Clinic. In a Law Clinic, students are provided with substantial lawyering experiences that involve advising or representing actual clients. Law Clinics include direct supervision of the students’ performance by faculty; opportunities for performance, feedback from faculty, and self-evaluation; and include a weekly seminar. Most full-year Clinics are offered for ten credits, six of which count towards this experiential requirement. Part-time Clinics and “Law Labs” are offered for fewer experiential credits (students should consult the course description for each part-time Clinic or Law Lab for the exact number of experiential credits offered).
  2. An Externship. An externship includes a field placement that provides students with a substantial lawyering experience that is reasonably similar that of a lawyer advising or representing clients or engaging in other lawyering tasks, as well as a classroom component or other means of faculty-guided reflection. An Externship also includes direct supervision of the students’ performance by faculty and/or a site supervisor; opportunities for performance, feedback from faculty and/or site supervisor, and self-evaluation. Students in Externships will sign a written agreement outlining the terms of their Externship and their educational achievement will be evaluated by a faculty member. Externships are offered for between 1 and 5 credits.
  3. A Simulation Course (listed below). Simulation courses include a classroom instructional component in which students are provided substantial experiences similar to those of lawyers advising or representing clients or engaging in other lawyering tasks in a set of facts and circumstances devised or adopted by faculty. Simulation courses also include direct supervision of the students’ performance by faculty, multiple opportunities for performance, and self-evaluation. Simulation Courses are offered for between 1 and 3 credits. The following courses meet the definition of "simulation course" as required by the ABA.  This list is not all inclusive - additional courses will be added as appropriate:
  • Advanced Legal Writing
  • Appellate Practice
  • Bankruptcy Moot Court Team (Duberstein)
  • Bankruptcy Reorganizations
  • Business Planning and Formation
  • Business of Practice
  • Coding Law: Technology Practice
  • Commercial Lending and Finance
  • Community Lawyering Seminar
  • Design Thinking (Intersession)
  • Drafting Wills and Trusts
  • Environmental Law Skills Seminar
  • Energy and Natural Resources
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Federal Indian Law
  • Forensics (Intersession)
  • Housing Discrimination: Law, Theory and Practice
  • Human Rights Project
  • Intellectual Property Transaction Skills
  • Interviewing and Counseling
  • Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation
  • International and Comparative Legal Research
  • International Public Interest Advocacy (semester in practice)
  • Introduction to Professional Skills
  • Labor and Employment Arbitration
  • Planning: Law as a Career
  • Lawyering in an Age of Smart Machines
  • Legal Practice in International and Comparative Law (externship)
  • Legal Practice in International and Comparative Law, Advanced Topics
  • Mediation
  • Mediation Skills Training (Intersession)
  • Negotiating Business Transactions Seminar
  • Negotiation (semester long and Intersession)
  • Patent Litigation Practice
  • Patent Prosecution: Drafting
  • Patent Prosecution: PTO
  • Practice Ready Legal Research
  • Pre-Trial Civil Litigation
  • Problem Solving (Intersession)
  • Process Improvement and Legal Project Management
  • State Criminal Practice
  • Trademark Practice: PTO
  • Transactional Skills
  • Trial Advocacy (2) credits
  • Trail Advocacy Intensive (3 credits)
  • Twenty First Century Lawyer
  • Urban Mechanics: Boston Practicum

Can credits earned for trial team, moot court and other simulation based competitions qualify as a simulation course or count towards the required experiential credits?
No, unless these activities are part of or accompanied by a required classroom component.

Does Pro Bono or other work experience count?
No, only activities that are credit bearing count.

Can one course satisfy the Legal Writing Requirement and experiential credits?
No, one course cannot satisfy both the upper level writing requirement and the experiential learning requirement.

Skill Menu

Skills Menu Requirement

Prior to graduation, each student is required to take one course from the Skills Menu. The purpose of the Skills requirement is to assist students in developing skills required to successfully perform lawyering tasks, such as problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, legal research, factual investigation, communication, counseling, negotiation, litigation and alternative dispute resolution procedures, organization and management of legal work, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas in practice.

The requirement is for students who entered prior to Fall 2015. Fall 2015 entrants only should follow the Experiential Learning requirements. 

 

All Clinics and Legal Externships Law Practice Planning
Accelerator-to-Practice Program Lawyering in an Age of Smart Machines
Advanced Legal Research - Tax Mediation
Advanced Legal Writing Mediation Skills Training (Intersession)
Alternate Dispute Resolution Negotiation
Appellate Practice Negotiating Business Transactions Seminar
Arbitration of Domestic and International Disputes Negotiating Business Transactions: A Simulation Course
  Negotiation and Mediation Issues Seminar
Business of Practice: Hit the Ground Running Patent Litigation Practice
Business Planning: Formation and Financing of Start-up Businesses Patent Prosecution I:Drafting
  Practice Ready Legal Research
Coding Law: Technology Practice Practice Ready: Personal Injury Litigation 
Commercial Lending and Finance Practicum Practice Series: Representing Clients in Fee Shifting Cases
Community Lawyering Seminar  Pretrial Civil Litigation 
Compliance Practice Seminar Federal Criminal Practice
Decision Making and Choice Management Private Placements
Design Thinking (Intersession) Problem Solving
Drafting Intellectual Property Licenses Process Improvement and Legal Project Management
Drafting Wills and Trusts State Criminal Practice
E-Discovery Law Statutory Interpretation
Employment Law Practice Transactional Law and Practice
Energy and Natural Resources Transactional Skills and Contract Drafting 
Entrepreneurship Trial Advocacy
Environmental Law Seminar  
Federal Criminal Practice  
Federal Indian Law Trial Advocacy - Intensive
Forensics (Intersession) Twenty First Century Lawyer 
Housing Discrimination: Law, Theory and Practice Urban Mechanics: Boston Practicum
Human Rights Project  
Human Rights Survey   
Intellectual Property Transaction Skills  
International and Comparative Legal Research  
International Legal Practice (Internship)  
International Public Interest Advocacy (Semester in practice)  
Interviewing and Counseling  
Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation  
Investment Management  
Labor and Employment Arbitration  

 

Perspectives Menu

Perspectives Menu

All students should take at least one of the Perspectives courses listed below before graduation. The purpose of the recommendation is to help students develop an analytical perspective on our legal system, by viewing it through the lens of another discipline, probing the foundations, values or assumptions underlying our legal institutions, or studying alternatives to our own doctrinal approach to legal problem

Comparative Income Tax Jurisprudence: Law and Adjudication
Comparative Law and Culture Justice, Morality and Film
Disability Law Law and Economics
Education Law Law and Literature
Federal Indian Law and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the U.S Law and Public Policy
Human Rights Laws of War
Immigration Law Military Law
International and Comparative Perspectives on Poverty and Human Rights Public Interest Seminar
International Children's Rights Race, Gender and the Law
International Law Religion and the Law
International Intellectual Property Taxation of Intellectual Property

 

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