The First Year: Integrating Transactional Skills

The contract drafting module is something that I prepared in response to our dean at Northwestern’s request. It was David Van Zandt at the time. He wanted to respond to the reports and the continual criticism alleging that there was a gap between legal education and law practice, and he wanted to make sure that all of our students graduated with the ability to draft simple contracts. This was something in our strategic plan called Plan 2008 (I think it’s getting to be a little bit out of date).