Do law students learn how to write certain legal documents?

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Or do only paralegals do? I will be a freshman law student this upcoming fall, and I was wondering if law schools teach how to prepare legal documents. Any sort of help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
 
it really depends on what school you go to....some schools are really ethereal in their approach to law and they talk alot about theory but nothing really to do with real life practice

some schools are really grounded and teach the down and dirty of real life practice......my school was the latter type and not only did we have two required writing classes but most of our elective courses had written assignments

also, if you are lucky enough to get an internship with a court, law office or a prosecutor's office you will get plenty of writing experience before graduating
 
Not really....
You take contracts, but never see a contract.
You study civil procedure, but never read a complaint.
But generally, you will learn to write internal memos and briefs, and if you take appellate practice, an appellate brief.

Those other items you learn while working for a firm. And they mostly have those types of things on hard drive libraries so you can just do fact changes for court submittals.

One other thing...you will not be a freshman law student, you will be a 1-L. There is a pretty good book, called 1-L that you might want to read this summer.
 
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