Legal educators are welcome to “adopt” the Client Science course in whole or in part and to use any and all of the documents provided here. Indeed, this website’s primary goal is to make it easy for you to teach the course and make assigned readings (in addition to the Client Science book), simulation exercises, and other exercises and handouts available to your students. Thus, I have provided copies of syllabi, text for course descriptions, powerpoints (arranged by topic), an extensive Instructor’s Guide, separate instructor’s notes for role simulations, and two different versions of a final counseling skills exercise. Materials that I generally hand out in class are also included in this legal educators’ section only.
Review the Course Materials
You will no doubt want to read all course materials before deciding whether to use them. Thus, you may download the “Educators’ Review Package” that includes the full set of the teaching materials, divided into large categories. Or, you may download the many documents separately.
Click below to expand to view a comprehensive list of Client Science course materials that you’ll receive as part of the Educator Review Package. In order to retrieve the materials, you will need to verify your status as an educator. If you have already done so and have received the password to access the materials, click here.
Individual Course Materials
- Suggested text for course description
- Syllabi & Course Memoranda
- Additional assigned readings
- Instructor’s Guide
- Powerpoints, by topic
- Case Assessment Exercises
- Role Simulations
- Hapless Harvest Interview – Lawyer and Client roles
- Family Matters Interview – Lawyer and Client roles
- To Ditch or Not To Ditch Design Display – Background information, Lawyer and Client Roles
- Upscale Accusations Interview – Lawyer and Client Roles
- Upscale Accusations Counseling – Lawyer and Client Roles
- Instructor’s Notes for Role Simulations
- Consequences Chart (in-class handout during To Ditch or Not To Ditch Design Display)
- Vignettes (used for segments on Psychology and Emotion, in-class handout)
- Exercises in Use of Voice and Gesture (in-class handout)
- Decision Analysis problem sets, titled “Simple Hypos and Balanced Trees on Balance Beams”
- Decision Analysis answers for problem sets (in-class handout)
- Sexual Harassment Case description for demo, with decision tree (in-class handout)
- Information regarding decision tree software (brief description of resource and link)
- Imagining Real Bad News and Wishing for Magic – SHORT role simulation for light-hearted in-class exercise on giving bad news (set at the Hogwarts School of Magic, two roles – Marley Dumange and Dr. Wise) (in-class handout)
- Final Counseling Skills Exercise – two versions, one for individual observed and/or recorded sessions with client and one for final paper assignment as final exercise