Motions. Briefs. Oral arguments. For students interested in a transactional career, a typical legal writing semester focused on persuasion sometimes feels like it is centered on inconsequential litigation-style assignments. What many students do not realize, however, is that many skills learned in a persuasive semester, including through the context of litigation-style assignments, are transferrable to transactional contexts and help students prepare for careers in transactional practices.

A cappella. Zoom. Tax law.

Never before did these three things go together as well as they did during the spring 2021 semester in my legal writing and oral advocacy course at Suffolk University Law School.