Skills for NextGen: Client Scenarios in Torts - 1st Edition - Shannon W. Conway

Skills for NextGen: Client Scenarios in Torts 1st Edition Shannon W. Conway ISBN 9798894101361

Skills for NextGen: Client Scenarios in Torts (First Edition), by Professors Conway and Westenskow, is a skills-centered supplement designed for use in a traditional first-year Torts course. The book bridges doctrinal instruction and real-world lawyering by placing students in the role of practicing attorneys responding to client-based scenarios. Through this practical framework, students learn Torts not only as a body of law, but as a set of tools applied in professional practice.

The text presents realistic, fictional client matters that bring core tort doctrines to life and require students to complete the types of tasks lawyers routinely perform. Each scenario asks students to engage in authentic lawyering activities—such as identifying legal issues, counseling clients, researching the law, negotiating solutions, and exercising professional judgment—while reinforcing doctrinal understanding. Designed to align with the foundational skills tested on the NextGen Uniform Bar Examination, the book offers a rigorous yet accessible approach to integrating skills training into the 1L curriculum.

Key Features

• Dozens of hands-on exercises built around client-centered fact patterns

• Client files that mirror real practice, including records, professional documents, and embedded legal authorities

• Multiple exercises within each client matter, encouraging evidence evaluation and completion of traditional lawyering tasks

• Sample answers that support self-assessment and formative learning

• Clear alignment with the foundational lawyering skills assessed on the NextGen UBE

• Organization that follows the core topics of a standard 1L Torts course

Benefits for Professors and Students

• Modular design allows professors to easily integrate exercises into existing syllabi

• Exercises are jurisdiction-neutral and independent of any specific Torts casebook, offering maximum flexibility

• Students strengthen practical lawyering skills while deepening doctrinal mastery

• Academic support faculty can use individual exercises for diagnostics, skills development, and bar readiness assessment

• Built-in materials support both self-paced learning and in-class application

Skills for NextGen: Client Scenarios in Torts 1st Edition Shannon W. Conway ISBN 9798894101361, 979-8894101361 & 9798894101378

Authors:
Shannon W. Conway
Meijken Westenskow