Week 5: The Client Interview
Getting Students to Think Like Baby Lawyers In lab this week, students conducted an interview of our client. As I noted in my last posting , my good friend, Jessica, played the role of Fatma Alhamad, the co-owner of three gourmet chocolate shops in Qatar. She and her husband, Mohammed, want a competitor to quit using the same trade name, "The Chocolate Drops," and a similar trademark in his own chocolate shop business. That's the basic outline of the simulation. To supplement these facts, I have provided students with memos either from me or the "senior associate" about the client, the alleged infringer, and the chocolate industry. With this background information, I required them to draft ten questions for the client. The exercise helps students develop listening, note-taking, summarizing, strategic planning, and questioning skills. The students in the male section met first with the client. I was excited to see that most of the studen