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The Hard Skills

12 December
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The Hard Skills

Posted by cdtalaw
in CDTA, Hard Skills
The Hard Skills

Hard skills are part of a job’s required skill set. These skills consist of the expertise necessary for an individual to successfully perform the job. They are job-specific and are acquired through formal education and training programs. Law students must learn hard skills to succeed as lawyers. In this context, this means learning the law, both substantive and procedural.

Modern law firms, like most modern employers, also seek applicants who possess important soft skills. The soft skills include interpersonal skills that facilitate coordination, teamwork, and goal achievement in the workplace. These are skills that are more difficult to quantify, and which receive minimal emphasis in many traditional law schools. Within its unique educational platform, the California Desert Trial Academy emphasizes soft skills with hard skills equally to place graduates in the best position to succeed.

Knowledge of the following legal subject areas will provide law students with the hard skills necessary to perform as lawyers.

  • Contracts
  • Torts
  • Criminal Law
  • Civil Procedure
  • Constitutional Law
  • Evidence
  • Real Property
  • Wills & Trusts
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Business Enterprises
  • Remedies
  • Professional Responsibility

 

*If you want to be a personal injury lawyer, you must minimally know the law of torts. If you want to be a transactional lawyer, you must minimally know the law of contracts. If you want to be an estate planning attorney, you must minimally know the law of wills, trusts, and estates. If you want to be a criminal defense lawyer, you must know criminal law and the law of criminal procedure. These are a lawyer’s hard skills.

Knowledge of the following soft skills will provide law students with the skills necessary to perform as attorney-advocates.

  • negotiation skills
  • time management skills
  • writing skills
  • enterprise management skills
  • presentation skills
  • research skills
  • critical thinking skills
  • core values review
  • creative thinking skills
  • professionalism
  • appearance and grooming skills
  • ethics and professional conduct

 

At CDTA, students learn both the hard and soft skills necessary to be extraordinary attorney-advocates. The CDTA emphasizes soft skills as an important component of achieving academic and professional goals. Call us today at (760) 342-0900 or find out more online here.

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Consistent with sound educational policy, CDTA College of Law does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, ancestry, religious creed, national origin, disability, medical condition, age, marital status, political affiliation, gender identity, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

California State Bar Standard and Required Disclosure

The method of instruction at this law school for the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree program is principally in physical classroom facilities.

Students enrolled in the J.D. degree program at this law school who successfully complete the first year of law study must pass the First-Year Law Students Examination required by Business and Professions Code 6060(h) and Rule VIII of the Rules Regulating Admission to Practice Law in California as part of the requirements to qualify to take the California Bar Examination.

A student who passes the First-Year Law Students Examination within three (3) administrations of the examination after first becoming eligible to take it will receive credit for all legal studies completed to the time the examination is passed. A student who does not pass the examination within three (3) administrations of the examination after first becoming eligible to take it must be promptly disqualified from the law school’s J.D. degree program. If the dismissed student subsequently passes the examination, the student is eligible for re-enrollment in this law school’s J.D. degree program, but will receive credit for only one year of legal study.

Study at, or graduation from, this law school may not qualify a student to take the bar examination or to satisfy the requirements for admission to practice in jurisdictions other than California. A student intending to seek admission to practice law in a jurisdiction other than California should contact the admitting authority in that jurisdiction for information regarding the legal education requirements in that jurisdiction for admission to the practice of law.

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