Library Reserve Materials

The following materials are available from the L.E.C.C. Library on VHS, CD, and DVD.

Substantive Lectures
(available on CD, VHS, and DVD)

• CONTRACTS
• UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
• TORTS
• PROPERTY
• REMEDIES
• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
• CRIMINAL LAW
• CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
• EVIDENCE
• CIVIL PROCEDURE
• CORPORATIONS
• COMMUNITY PROPERTY
• WILLS & TRUSTS
• PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

Essay Writing
Six lectures & accompanying essays

• Essay Writing 1 - Contracts, Torts, UCC
• Essay Writing 2 - Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure
• Essay Writing 3 - Real Property, Remedies
• Essay Writing 4 - Evidence, Civil Procedure
• Essay Writing 5 - Wills, Corporations, Trusts
• Essay Writing 6 - Community Property, Professional Responsibility

Performance Skills Workshops

Performance Skills Workshops encompassing the various tasks given on the California Bar Exam. Each workshop includes a graded practice examination.

Performance Test Workshops
(available on CD, VHS, and DVD)

Category One – Objective Writing
(memos and the like)

1. Abner v. Chemco (memo)
2. Carlton v. Mid-Central (memo)
3. Potter v. Transco (memo)
4. Alison Adams (memo, client options)
5. Bart (memo, client options)

Category Two – Persuasive Writing
(points & authorities, briefs on appeal)

6. Lee v. Western Steel (points & authorities)
7. Acme v. Reynolds (points & authorities + memo)
8. Powell v. Columbia (brief on appeal)
9. Honabach (brief on appeal)
10. Flinders (motion to suppress, summary judgment)
11. Trent (persuasive letter to legislative committee)
12. Estate of Crenshaw (closing argument to jury)

Category Three – Mid-Level Tasks
(client letters, discovery plans, etc.)

13. State v. Reed (memo + investigation)
14. Hale v. Delbert (memo + discovery plan)
15. Klare v. Journal of Human Experience (negotiating strategy + persuasive settlement letter)
16. Look-alikes (redraft legislation + persuasive letter)
17. In re estate of Winthrop Stern (memo + deposition)
18. In re Halberte (client letter)
19. In re Sharon Davis (review of client options)
20. Southwest Health Center (review of contract)
21. Hill v. Hill (client letter re: questions on deposition)
22. State v. Burke (memo + investigation, criminal law)

Multistate Lectures
(VHS,CD, and DVD)

Contracts, Torts, Real Property, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence (all by Professor Schmitt)