Legal Technology Summer School

This is the modern world! For most of us, it’s a world where we use technological tools daily, the nature of which we may not
fully understand. We send e-mails without realizing the immense amount of invisible data that goes with the e-mail. We give out
private information to companies and government, not knowing for certain how the data is being used. We “erase” information
only to discover that most data can never be fully erased. We cope with emerging legal issues created by clicking a hyperlink. We
use technology daily, but do we truly understand its implications and scope?

Eligibility

The Legal Technology summer program is open to students who have completed at least one year of law study and are in good
standing at an ABA-approved or state accredited law school. Applicants from schools other than the College of William & Mary
must furnish a letter from their home school’s dean or registrar certifying current good standing. Law school graduates may also
participate and must submit proof of their graduation. A limited number of foreign law students or law graduates, U.S. graduate
students, and graduates with advanced degrees in other disciplines may also be eligible.

Credit

The Center for Legal and Court Technology [CLCT] Legal Technology Summer Program at the College of William & Mary School of
Law in Williamsburg, Virginia, is ABA-approved. Class content and duration meet the requirements of the American Bar Association
and the Association of American Law Schools. Regular class attendance is expected. Grades used by William & Mary are A+,
A, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D, and F; or pass/fail. The maximum course load is six semester hours. Each course of the summer school is
worth three credit hours. Acceptance of any credit or grade for any course taken in this program is subject to determination by
your home school. You should consult with your dean’s office before applying to the program.

A summer grade report is available on-line after completion of the program. An official transcript will be sent to your law school
upon your written request ($5 fee per transcript).

 

Course Descriptions

Electronic Discovery and Data Seizures
Lederer (3 credits)
This course addresses the legal and practical issues inherent in conducting electronic discovery in civil cases, especially under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. It also focuses on the law of electronic data search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment, federal law, and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The course assumes familiarity with significant information technology concepts.
(Exam date: Thursday, June 26)

Privacy in a Technological Age
Hulse (3 credits)
This course delves into the concept of privacy in U.S. law and the shifting balance of privacy rights in the rapidly changing world of technology. The course examines critical privacy questions through the lens of consumer privacy, government records privacy, medical privacy, government surveillance, and online privacy.
(Exam date: Friday, June 27)

Technology Augmented Trial Advocacy
Simcox (3 credits)
This course trains students to be trial attorneys in both traditional and modern courtrooms using the latest in evidence presentation technologies. The curriculum will address trial strategy, jury selection, opening statements, and presentation of evidence, including the examination of witnesses, closing arguments, and preparation of jury instructions. Evidence presentation and related technologies will be fully integrated into all aspects of the course. A trial will be required. For those students who have not yet taken evidence, there will be
four 2-hour evening sessions on basic evidence taught during the first week of class.
(Pass/fail course - no exam)

Legal Technology Seminar
Lederer (3 credits)
This course explores the implications of legal technology to the legal system with an emphasis on law firm and office technology. Additional emphasis will be placed on government agency, court, courtroom, and litigation-related technologies. Using technology in the McGlothlin Courtroom, the seminar will consider the probable ethical, procedural, evidentiary, and systematic effects of technological innovations. Focus on advancements such as knowledge management, technology-dependent lawyer-client relationships, new forms of communication,
multimedia court records, remote deposition and hearing appearances, imaged documents, and computer-based courtroom information and evidence display are included.
(A paper or technology-related project is required; interdisciplinary projects are encouraged - no exam)

Internet Law
Bowditch (3 credits)
This course features an intensive study of the law of evidence, primarily utilizing the Federal Rules of Evidence. The curriculum will explore specific problems in applying law to cyberspace in areas such as intellectual property, freedom of speech, privacy, content control, and the bounds of jurisdiction. Familiarity with the Internet is helpful but not required.
(Exam date: Thursday, June 26)

 

 

Application & Payment Schedule

Click here to download the application form

April 4, 2008 (now extended to April 25th) Deadline for submitting applications. Because of limited enrollment, it is recommended that applications be filed well in advance of this date. Qualified applicants will be accepted in the order their applications are received. There is a non-refundable $50 program registration fee that is due at the time of application submission.

If you seek financial aid, you must apply for education loans through your home institution. Because of substantial processing time, you are advised to obtain information immediately and begin the process at least two months in advance of the registration deadline.

April 25, 2008 – Due date for tuition fees. Payment must be received by CLCT on or before this date.

Expenses

Program Registration Fee: $50
Housing: $681 – double; $660 – triple/quad (2007 rates)
Tuition: $3,000 (for one or two courses)
Mandatory Health Fee for on-campus students: $100
Student ID: $20
Parking Decal (estimated): $35

In addition to the above program costs, you will pay your own travel and personal expenses. You should also budget for weekend travel and entertainment.

 

Refund Policy

Refund requests for registration fees must be made in writing (letter, fax, or e-mail) to the Center for Legal and Court Technology office by the indicated dates.

Please contact Campus Housing directly for refund requests of housing fees.

On or before April 25, 2008: All tuition payments are fully refundable (less $50 registration fee).
April 26 to May 18, 2008: Tuition is refundable, less a $100 cancellation fee.
May 19 to May 23, 2008: Only 50% of the tuition will be refunded.
After May 23, 2008: No refunds will be made.

Local Attractions

During your stay,explore the historic city of Colonial Williamsburg (www.history.org) and many other tourist attractions, all within 20 miles of the college.

 

 

Housing

A limited number of rooms will be available on-campus at the Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Graduate Housing Complex, conveniently located next to the Law School. The complex, which opened in 1992, features two, three, and four-bedroom apartments that are specifically designed and constructed for graduate students. Each occupant of the apartment has his/her private bedroom and shares common areas with the other occupants.

 

 

Faculty Biographies

Fredric I. LEDERER Chancellor Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Legal and Court Technology at the College of William & Mary School of Law. Professor Lederer received his B.S. from Polytechnic University in New York and his J.D. from Columbia University Law School where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review and recipient of the Archie O’Dawson prize (which provided for study with judges at each of the three levels of the federal courts, including Justice John Marshall Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court). He holds an LL.M. from the University of Virginia. His post-graduate work includes a year as a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in Freiburg, Germany. He served as a member of the United States Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps until 1980 when he joined the
William & Mary faculty. He has served as prosecutor, defense counsel, and trial judge.

Professor Lederer’s areas of specialization include evidence, trial practice, criminal procedure, military law, and legal technology. He is one of the founders of the ABA prize winning Marshall-Wythe Legal Skills Program where all students spend two years in practice law firms learning professional ethics, legal research and writing, interviewing, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and basic trial and appellate practice - much in the form of simulated client representation.

Professor Lederer is the author or co-author of numerous books, articles, two law-related educational television series, and author of a popular series of “fairy-tale” trials for elementary and middle school students. Among his works-in-progress is “An Introduction to Basic Advocacy and Litigation in a Technological World”. Professor Lederer is also the founder and Director of Courtroom 21, “The Courtroom of the 21st Century Today,” the world’s most technologically advanced courtroom.

Rebecca HULSE Assistant Director for Privacy and Technology, and Adjunct Professor of Law, William & Mary School of Law. Professor Hulse graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a media lawyer in Boston in private practice before relocating to Williamsburg. At CLCT, Professor Hulse specializes in privacy and technology issues, and coordinates CLCT’s highly-respected bi-annual Conference on Privacy and Public Access to Court Records.

Stacey-Rae SIMCOX Associate Director for Professional Education, Research, and Terrorism Prosecution and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary School of Law. Professor Simcox received her undergraduate degree from Ohio University and her law degree from the College of William & Mary School of Law. She served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Susan Crawford at the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Washington D.C. As an attorney in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, she held a variety positions including Special Assistant United States Attorney; Military Prosecutor; Labor and Employment Attorney; Fiscal, Contract and
General Administrative Law Attorney; Chief of Administrative Law; Torts, Medical Malpractice, and Litigation Attorney; and Legal Assistance Attorney. Professor Simcox is CLCT’s specialist on the use of technology for major terrorism cases.

René BOWDITCH Assistant Director for Research and Professional Education, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the William & Mary School of Law. Professor Bowditch earned her Bachelor of Journalism with Honors from the University of Texas and her J.D. from William and Mary School of Law where she was a member of the Law Review and Order of the Coif. Professor Bowditch served as law clerk to Judge D. Dortch Warriner of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Her practice experience includes tenure in the Labor Law Department at McGuire-Woods in Richmond, Virginia, and in general practice with a small law firm in Newport News, Virginia. She also was Press Secretary for U. S. Congressman Paul Trible in his Capitol Hill office.

Professor Bowditch was a member of the original faculty of the Marshall-Wythe Legal Skills Program in which she taught for thirteen years. In 1998 she received the St. George Tucker Adjunct Professor of Law Award.

 

 

Contact

The Center for Legal and Court Technology
William & Mary Law School
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
(757) 221-2494 (phone) | (757) 221-3708 (fax)
clct@wm.edu | www.legaltechcenter.net

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