Legal Studies Institute (LSI) - College of Continuing and Professional Studies (CAPS) at FIU

Advanced Legal Writing Certificate

DATES:	Coming Summer 2003
TIME:	TBA
WHERE:	FIU, University Park Campus, 11200 SW 8 Street and SW 107 Avenue. Please call the LSI office at (305) 348-2491 one week prior to the beginning of class for the room location.

COST:	$295 per person (includes: instruction, materials, and certificate)

REGISTRATION:	TBA
CERTIFICATION:	Upon successfully completing all course work for this program, a Certificate of Completion will be awarded by the Legal Studies Institute of the College of Continuing and Professional Studies at Florida International University. A certificate from FIU will open doors to you.

Advanced Legal Writing provides legal professional with an opportunity to improve their legal writing skills. This course explores contemporary, practical issues and is taught using an interactive, problem-solving format. Each student is required to have completed a course in Civil Procedures before taking this class.

Special emphasis is placed on producing clear, precise authoritative legal documents, including learning how to respond to opposing arguments effectively and analytical judgment.

About the Instructor:

Mercedes Prieto Alonso-Knapp is the judicial law clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Shevin, of the Third District Court of Appeal. She has worked as a judicial Assistant at the Third District since 1989. Ms. Alonso-Knapp was appointed to the Appellate Law Clerk Education Committee in 1999. She received her B.S., Magna Cum Laude, from the University Of Miami with majors in English and Psychology. She received her J.D., Cum Laude, from the University Of Miami, where she served as a student author advisor of the University Of Miami Law review. Ms. Alonso-Knapp was a Legal Research and writing instructor at the Law School. Thereafter, in 1995, she joined Florida International University Legal Studies Institute as an adjunct professor.

Contact Information:

Call the Legal Studies Institute office at (305) 348-2491, or send an email to legal@fiu.edu

You may also visit us in person at:
University Park, 11200 SW 8 Street and 107 Avenue, GL-120 (Green Library Building, Room 120) Miami, Florida 33199.

The Administration of the Legal Studies Institute reserves the right to modify, delete, cancel, add, or change course and seminar programs, tuition fee, classroom location, faculty, and courses as deemed necessary.