The Legal Skills and Values Program at the College of Law combines demanding traditional instruction in legal research and writing with an introduction to other lawyering skills, like interviewing and counseling, and to issues of professionalism. It is a required three-semester curriculum that will run throughout the first year, and must be completed by the end of the fourth semester by full-time students and by the end of the fifth semester by part-time students. It is premised on the beliefs that (1) strong research and writing skills are vital to lawyers in all areas of practice; (2) other lawyering skills should be introduced early in a student's academic career; and (3) concerns for the ethical sensitivity and civility of lawyers demand an early and recurring emphasis.