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    "page_header": "Delaware Law School Learning Outcomes",
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    "page_content": "<p>The Learning Outcomes and Performance Criteria shown below have been adopted by the Delaware Law School Faculty.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"irl://2083//\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the Learning Outcomes</a> (pdf)</p>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>LEARNING OUTCOMES</h3>\r\n<p><strong>By graduation a Delaware Law student will have competency in the following:</strong></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>PERFORMANCE CRITERIA</h3>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>Knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural law</h3>\r\n</td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Identifying, describing and interpreting the fundamental terms, rules, and principles (including variations) in given subject area</li>\r\n<li>Comparing and contrasting principles, cases, or arguments</li>\r\n<li>Demonstrating ability to identify and employ the processes through which legal disputes are resolved and legal rights and duties are established and enforced.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>Legal reasoning and analysis</h3>\r\n</td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Identifying legal issues raised by a particular set of facts</li>\r\n<li>Selecting and articulating the appropriate doctrinal or procedural framework/s to address legal issues</li>\r\n<li>Effectively applying the relevant doctrinal or procedural framework to facts</li>\r\n<li>Demonstrating ability to identify legal problems as they arise in a variety of factual contexts.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>Legal research</h3>\r\n</td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Mastering fundamental research tools</li>\r\n<li>Effectively and efficiently researching legal issues to find relevant primary and secondary authority</li>\r\n<li>Critically reading primary and secondary authority to ascertain and explain its relevance, meaning and weight</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>Written and oral communication in the legal context.</h3>\r\n</td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Listening actively to determine audience needs and the appropriate response (audience may be client, court, opposing counsel, witness, etc.)</li>\r\n<li>Employing appropriate methods of communication to the different stakeholders in the legal system.</li>\r\n<li>Speaking in a clear, concise, thoughtful, well-organized and professional manner appropriate to the audience and context</li>\r\n<li>Preparing legal documents such as letters, motions, and memoranda of law in a clear, concise, thoughtful, well-organized and professional manner appropriate to the audience and context</li>\r\n<li>Using standard legal citation format</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>Problem-solving</h3>\r\n</td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Identifying all legal issues raised by a particular set of facts</li>\r\n<li>Applying principles of law to sets of facts</li>\r\n<li>Generating alternative solutions and strategies</li>\r\n<li>Developing a plan of action</li>\r\n<li>Considering practical implications, ethical issues, or other non-legal issues relevant to the problem</li>\r\n<li>Demonstrating self-learning skills</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>Exercise of proper professional and ethical responsibilities to clients and civility in the legal profession.</h3>\r\n</td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Identifying ethical problems</li>\r\n<li>Knowing the appropriate and relevant ethical standards raised in a problem</li>\r\n<li>Articulating potential solutions to the problem</li>\r\n<li>Demonstrating ability to organize and manage time and meet professional deadlines.</li>\r\n<li>Demonstrating ability to work cooperatively with others in a professional setting.</li>\r\n<li>Utilizing self-regulated learning principles to develop an appropriate understanding of new areas of law.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<h3>Lawyering skills including fact development, client counseling, drafting and analysis of common legal documents, and ability to work collaboratively with others.</h3>\r\n</td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Gathering facts relevant to legal issues</li>\r\n<li>Drafting legal documents that are clear, concise, and appropriate to the audience and context</li>\r\n<li>Practicing active and empathetic listening with clients</li>\r\n<li>Conducting effective negotiation, counseling, or court hearing</li>\r\n<li>Working effectively with colleagues on a legal matter</li>\r\n<li>Using effective briefing, note-taking, and drafting techniques</li>\r\n<li>Managing time</li>\r\n<li>Strategic planning to accomplish a goal</li>\r\n<li>Understanding the relationship between effective work habits and meeting professional responsibilities</li>\r\n<li>Engaging in self-reflection about the student&rsquo;s own learning process</li>\r\n<li>Learning from experience through self-critique</li>\r\n<li>Understanding the relationship between ongoing acquisition of information and skills and meeting professional responsibilities</li>\r\n<li>Taking practical considerations into account such as time and financial constraints</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>",
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