Maricopa Community Colleges  LAS110   20006-20025 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 12/14/99
LAS110 20006-20025 LEC 3 Credit(s) 3 Period(s)
Legal Procedures II
Procedural aspects of discovery, trial preparation and post-trial work. Emphasis on practical concerns, such as locating the appropriate rules of court; interviewing of witnesses; preparation of interrogatories, exhibits, and transmittal memoranda; summarizing and indexing depositions; organization of files; and preparation of trial notebooks. Prerequisites: LAS109, or permission of department chairperson, or program director/coordinator.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
LAS110   20006-20025 Legal Procedures II
1. Locate court rules for preparing, serving, and filing pleadings and documents in civil and criminal cases. (I)
2. Compare the rules of civil and criminal procedure dealing with trial and post-trial discovery issues in both the Arizona and Federal systems. (I, III, IX)
3. Interview witnesses. (II)
4. Prepare commonly used discovery documents. (III)
5. Prepare transmittal memoranda. (IV, VII)
6. Summarize and index depositions. (IV)
7. Organize an information retrieval system. (V)
8. Describe various legal remedies. (VI)
9. Prepare selected trial materials. (VII)
10. Describe basic evidentiary problems. (VIII)
11. Describe the various forms of post-judgment relief. (IX)
12. Describe the issues regarding reviewability. (X)
13. Identify court orders that constitute final judgments. (XI)
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LAS110   20006-20025 Legal Procedures II
    I. Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure
        A. Superior/Federal District court rules
        B. Uniform rules of practice
        C. Local rules of practice
      II. Interviewing Witnesses
          A. Hostile
          B. Friendly
          C. Expert
        III. Discovery
            A. Mandatory disclosure
            B. Interrogatories
            C. Answers to interrogatories
            D. Requests for admissions
            E. Requests for production of documents
            F. Independent medical evaluations
            G. Notices of deposition
            H. Subpoenas duces tecum
            I. Limits on discovery
            J. Pretrial conference
          IV. Summarizing And Indexing Depositions
              A. Methods used to summarize depositions
              B. Indexing systems
              C. Transmittal memoranda
            V. Information Retrieval System
                A. Short range retrieval
                B. Long range retrieval
                C. Docket control
                D. Evidence control
                E. Bates numbering
              VI. Remedies
                  A. Damages
                  B. Injunction
                  C. Mandamus
                VII. Preparation Of Trial Materials
                    A. Trial notebook
                    B. Trial exhibits
                    C. Documents to be submitted as evidence
                    D. Transmittal memoranda
                  VIII. Evidentiary Problems
                      A. Privilege
                      B. Confidentiality
                      C. Best evidence rule
                      D. Parole evidence rule
                      E. Hearsay
                      F. Hearsay exceptions
                    IX. Postjudgment Relief
                        A. Motion for new trial
                        B. Motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict
                        C. Writ of habeas corpus
                        D. Appeal
                        E. Writ of certiorari
                      X. Reviewability
                          A. Findings of fact by trial court
                          B. Conclusions of law by trial court
                          C. Standards of review
                        XI. Final Judgment
                            A. Determining whether court order is final judgment
                            B. Determining enforceability of court order
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