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The Centers for Excellence
The Advocacy Center
Office location: 1112
713-646-1775
e-mail gtreece@stcl.edu
Website: http://www.stcl.edu/BOA
The South Texas Advocacy Program is among the elite advocacy programs in the United States, with 100 national titles, and consistently rated in the top ten by U.S. News and World Report. The year-round program immerses second- and third-year students in the mechanics, artistry, and strategy of trial skills and appellate argument.Students compete in more than 30 advocacy tournaments across the country each school year, bringing home the 100national titles, twice that of any other law school in the country.
The Advocacy Program’s strength is bolstered by the college’s nationally recognized Legal Research and Writing Program. The written briefs submitted as part of competition are often key factors in success and the foundation of oral arguments. U.S. News and World Report places South Texas’ legal writing program in the top 20 of the country. The marriage of these two strengths, advocacy and writing,
assures success for our students in competition and later in practice.
Led by Associate Dean T. Gerald Treece, the Advocacy Program is supported by hundreds of alumni who provide the resources, knowledge, and countless hours of coaching to our students. All teams are coached by dedicated teams of alumni committed to the program and shaping the next generation of outstanding attorneys.
The Frank Evans Center for Conflict Resolution
As the practice of law evolves, attorneys spend considerably much more time in negotiations, mediations, and arbitration rooms than the courtroom. As a result, it is imperative that law students possess not only the ability, but also the expertise in these contemporary methods of legal representation.
The Frank Evans Center for Conflict Resolution (FECCR) has as its primary mission the education of law students in both the theoretical foundations and practical applications of dispute resolution policies and procedures. In a broader sense, the work of the center advances dispute resolution policy and practice through education, research and service.
The FECCR serves as the focal point for dispute resolution education within South Texas College of Law. The FECCR provides a variety of opportunities for students to learn the theoretical foundations and practical applications of dispute resolution law, procedure and policies.
The Center, named after a former Chief Judge of the First Court of Appeals, in Houston, Texas, the Honorable Frank G. Evans, known as the father of ADR in Texas, sponsors and administers a variety of programs and projects, including classes, clinics, externships and dispute resolution competitions. In addition, the Center has the privilege to be one of the few, if not the only Center in the country, which has two Past-Chairs of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, Dean Emeritus Jim Alfini and Distinguished Lecturer Kimberlee Kovach, director of the program.
In addition to its educational initiatives, the Center also serves an active and important role in the local, state, and national dispute resolution communities.
Contact Us:
South Texas College of Law
The Frank Evans Center for Conflict Resolution
Website: http://www.stcl.edu/feccr
Kimberlee Kovach, Director. at kkovach@stcl.edu
1303 San Jacinto St., Houston, Texas 77002, Suite 1114
Rita Cannon, Coordinator, at rcannon@stcl.edu
Phone: 713.646.2998 • Fax: 713-646-2996
Corporate Compliance Center
Office Location: 809T
Website: http://www.stcl.edu/ccc
713-646-1759; Fax 713-646-1759
e-mail dwalton@stcl.edu
The Center’s mission is to provide attorneys, business people, and the South Texas College of Law community with timely education and materials concerning corporate compliance. The Center will pursue this mission through three types of activities.
Office Location: 760 Tower
Professor David East - 713-646-1879; e-mail wdavid@stcl.edu
website: http://www.stcl.edu/tp
A primary focus of the Transactional Practice Center is to create and teach a core curriculum for the training of law students to become business lawyers. The Center is pursuing that mission through three educational activities. First, it offers a series of upper division electives that teach a core set of skills in a variety of business simulation exercises, including a leveraged buyout and commercial real estate transaction. Second, it offers an academic perspective on issues found in the practice of transaction law, including professional ethics. Third, it has developed a Certificate Program, which is a multi-course sequencing of classes that allow students to develop a transactional practice concentration. The Center also provides outreach to the larger community in numerous activities. It offers training and continuing legal education events on transactional practice, both nationally and internationally. Through a vigorous national Board of Advisors it will involve and utilize the skills and knowledge of the practicing bar both for curriculum development and training programs. It will explore collaborations with other institutions in recognition of the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of transaction practice.
The Transactional Practice Center is also engaged in developing the law and contributing to the body of legal scholarship surrounding transaction practice. It houses the Texas Journal of Business Law.
Certificate in Transactional Law Practice
The Transactional Law Practice Certificate Program is a curricular pathway for students interested in pursuing legal careers representing clients in planning, negotiating, structuring, and documenting business transactions. It is designed to provide law students with a strong background in basic business law concepts, an opportunity for in-depth study of advanced business and business-related legal doctrine and practice, and intensive practice-oriented instruction focusing on the skills essential for transactional law practice.
South Texas College of Law has a long tradition of excellence in skills oriented legal education, and the Transactional Law Practice Certificate Program builds on that tradition by providing a comprehensive and integrated course of study through which students may develop competence in transactional matters that business lawyers routinely handle, including working with clients in planning and implementing business transactions; negotiating and drafting legal documents; and advising and counseling clients on the applicable laws and regulations governing various aspects of the deal. Students need not have any special business background or experience to participate in the Transactional Law Practice Certificate Program. Students from all academic and professional backgrounds–including the humanities, sciences, engineering, and business–are encouraged to consider enrolling in the Program and taking business and transactional courses. Moreover, since most lawyers do some transactional work, even students who do not expect to have exclusively transactional law practices are encouraged to consider participating in the program.
Students must apply for admission to the program. Normally students should apply after completing the first thirty (30) semester hours of required law school courses and before completing forty-five (45) semester hours or during their third semester of full-time study. Exceptions will be made only in rare cases.
To receive the Certificate at graduation, students must satisfy the followingrequirements:
- Three core business law courses
- Three elective business-related courses
- One general transactional skills course
- One specialized transactional skills course
- Satisfaction of the Substantial Writing Requirement by writing on a business- or transactional practice-related topic
- A 3.333 cumulative grade point average across all Certificaterelated courses and a 3.000 overall cumulative law school grade point average
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