CURRICULUM

First Year Required Courses	Lottery Procedure
Second Year Required Courses	Law Review
Elective Requirements	Clinics
Advanced Writing Requirement	Bar Subjects
Course Planning Suggestions	Externship Program
Prerequisites	Dropping/Withdrawing

First Year Curriculum

Fall Semester	Spring Semester
Contracts I - 3	Contracts II - 3
Property I - 3	Property II - 3
Torts I - 3	Torts II - 3
Criminal Law - 3	Civil Procedure I - 3
Legal Writing and Research – 3	Constitutional Law I - 2
Introduction to Law - 1	Appellate Advocacy – 1

Second Year Curriculum

Fall Semester	Spring Semester
Civil Procedure II - 3	Evidence - 3
Constitutional Law II - 3	Professional Responsibility - 3

Elective Requirements

 

During your 2nd or 3rd year, you must take two of the following three courses:

Administrative Law

Business Organizations

Trusts & Estates

During your 2nd or 3rd year, you must take one of the following three courses: 

 

Bankruptcy

Income Taxation

Secured Transactions

During your 2nd or 3rd year, you must take one of the following skills courses: 

 

Adv. Appellate Advocacy	Adv. Legal Research	Alternative Dispute Resolution
Business Planning	Civil Pretrial Practice	Clinic (any)
Estate Planning	Lawyering Skills	Trial Practice

Advanced Writing Requirement

As a condition of graduation, all students must complete an upper level writing requirement consisting of a research paper of a minimum length of 15 pages, double-spaced. An appropriate standard citation form will be designated and followed. A detailed outline of the paper must first be submitted, and the paper must be rewritten at least once after it is reviewed. With the professor's approval, a student can meet the advanced writing requirement in any law school course as long as the above requirements are met. The professor must certify that the writing requirement has been fulfilled. A seminar permits the student to fulfill the advanced writing requirement, as a seminar is required to have a writing component that meets the advanced writing requirement. A student may also fulfill the requirement through writing a case note or comment for the law review.

Course Planning Suggestions

These lists are intended to give you an idea of which courses would be particularly beneficial to someone interested in a specific type of practice. You should not feel compelled to take all the courses listed in a specific area.

Area of Practice with suggested courses:

 

General

Administrative Law	Commercial Paper	Lawyering Skills
Advanced Appellate Advocacy	Conflict of Laws	Legal Clinics
Adv. Business Organizations	Criminal Adjud.	Local Government
Advanced Legal Research	Criminal Procedure	Taxation of Bus. Entities
Agricultural Law	Estate Planning	Real Estate Finance
Alternative Dispute Resolution	Family Law	Secured Transactions
Bankruptcy	Income Taxation	Trial Practice
Business Organizations	Insurance Law	Trusts and Estates
Civil Pretrial Practice	Land Use Law

Business

Administrative Law	Business Planning	Land Use Law
Adv. Business Organizations	Commercial Paper	Law of the Workplace
Advanced Legal Research	Consumer Protection	Lawyering Skills
Alternative Dispute Resolution	Creditors' Rights	Taxation of Bus. Entities
Antitrust	Income Taxation	Real Estate Finance
Bankruptcy	Insurance Law	Secured Transactions
Business Organizations	Intellectual Property	Securities
Business Planning	Labor Law

Government/Public Interest

Administrative Law	Environmental Law	Lawyering Skills
Adv. Appellate Advocacy	Federal Courts	Legal Clinics
Advanced Legal Research	Haz.  Waste & Water Pollution	Local Government
Antitrust Law	Indian Law	Oil and Gas
Consumer Protection	Labor Law	Securities
Criminal Adjudication	Land Use Law	Trial Practice
Criminal Procedure

Natural Resources

Administrative Law	Environmental Law	Local Government
Advanced Legal Research	Haz. Waste/Water Pollution	Mining Law
Agricultural Law	Indian Law	Oil and Gas
Alternative Dis. Resolution	Land Use Law	Public Lands
Business Organizations	Lawyering Skills	Water Rights

Prerequisites

Elective Course	Prerequisites
Advanced Business Organizations	Business Organizations
Business Planning	Business Organizations and Income Taxation
Environmental Law	Administrative Law
Estate Planning/Gift & Estate Tax	Income Taxation and Trusts & Estates
Legal Clinics	Professional Responsibility
Taxation of Business Entities	Business Organizations and Income Taxation
Trial Practice	Evidence
Securities	Business Organizations

Although not a prerequisite, it is strongly recommended that you take:

    Administrative Law before Hazardous Waste & Water Pollution

    Civil Procedure II before Federal Courts

    Criminal Procedure before the Defender Aid Clinic

    Secured Transactions before Bankruptcy

    Family Law before or concurrent with Legal Services Clinic

 

 

 

 

 

Lottery Procedure

Certain upper class limited-enrollment classes are subject to a lottery to determine which students will be allowed to enroll in the course. Third year standing and course pre-requisite requirements may also apply. The lottery is usually done in conjunction with pre-registration advising. The courses currently subject to a lottery are:

• Business Planning, fall only, LAW 6560, limited to 20 students;

• Clinics (Legal Services, Defender Aid and Prosecution Assistance), fall, spring and summer semesters, LAW 6930, limited to 8-12 students, depending on the clinic);

• Trial Practice, fall and spring semesters, LAW 6850, limited to 16 students per section, one section is offered in the fall, two in the spring;

• Estate Planning, spring only, LAW 6670, limited to 20 students;

• Alternative Dispute Resolution, spring only, LAW 6920-01, limited to 20 students;

• Lawyering Skills, spring only, LAW 6920-02, limited to 20 students, second year preference.

Third year students receive priority in the lottery, with the exception of Lawyering Skills. Third year spring semester students who have not previously taken a clinic will also receive a preference over those seeking a second semester in the clinic.

Other courses such as Seminars, Civil Pretrial Practice and Advanced Legal Research also have limited enrollments but are not on the lottery system, but rather on a first-come first-served system by pre-registration. These courses are usually not over-subscribed.

Lottery sign-up sheets are made available in the front office during advising week. You may sign up for more than one lottery class. HOWEVER, if you sign up for more than one lottery class, you need to indicate which is your first, second, third, etc., choice. You must rank and use each numerical rank only once. If you sign up for only one lottery class, rank it as “one.” If you have a second (or third) choice of a clinic, you must designate each clinic as your first, second, or third choice. All names on the lotteries for each class, with the accompanying ranking, will then be randomly sorted. We will then fill the class by going in order from top to bottom, starting with the “ones” first, then the “two’s,” etc. A wait list using the same ordering system will be created for students who have signed the lottery but who are not chosen to be in the class in the initial selection. As students initially selected decide to drop the course, we will then notify the next student down on the wait list.

Bar Subjects

Wyoming Bar

Multistate Bar Exam (MBE)

Essay Subjects:

Administrative Law	Corporations	Property
Business Organization	Criminal Law & Procedure	Sales
Civil Procedure	Domestic Relations	Secured Transactions
Commercial Paper	Evidence	Torts
Constitutional Law	Mortgages	Water Law
Contracts	Oil and Gas	Wills, Trusts and Estates

Applicants must also successfully complete the MPRE, meeting Wyoming standard score for admission.

Colorado Bar

Multistate Bar Exam (MBE)

Essay Subjects:

 

Business Associations (including Agency, Corporations and Partnership)

Civil Procedure

Commercial Transactions (including Secured Transactions, Sales and Negotiable Instruments)

Contracts

Criminal Law & Procedure

Domestic Relations/Family Law

Evidence

Public Law (including Constitutional Law and Administrative Law)

Real Property

Torts

Wills, Estates & Trusts

PLUS, all MBE Subjects

 

Performance Test

Applicants must also successfully complete the MPRE, meeting Colorado standard score for admission.

 

DISCLAIMER: It is your responsibility to check with the Board of Law Examiners in each state in which you plan to take the bar exam for the latest information regarding bar examination subjects, application procedures and deadlines, etc.

 

Dropping/Withdrawing from a Course

Failure to attend class or failure to pay tuition does not constitute withdrawal from a class or from the university. Students who confirmed their presence on campus through the Office of the Registrar will be assessed full tuition and fees. Students who drop or withdraw from their last or only class for a given term after the end of the drop/add time period must also meet with Dean Prigden or Dean Burke and complete official withdrawal forms. Financial aid recipients who withdrawal or reduce credit hours must consult with a financial aid counselor regarding repayment of financial aid funds if applicable. For more complete details regarding deadlines, refunds, and cancellations, see the University’s General Bulletin.