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    Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Law School Student Handbook 
    
2018-2019 Law School Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

LLM US Legal Studies

  
  • LLM - 395 Curricular Practical Training (LLM)


    1-2 unit(s)
    Qualified international students in valid visa status may obtain practical training by participating in clinical programs, legal internships and externships, and law clerk positions under the guidance of the program director and a faculty adviser. To qualify, students must demonstrate competence in legal writing and research and obtain written authorization from an international student adviser. May be taken a maximum of three times. Open only to students in LLM programs. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.


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LLM Estate Planning

  
  • LLM - 300A Professional Responsibility for Trust & Estate Practice


    2 unit(s)
    This class concentrates on the ethical and practical considerations that an estate planning and probate attorney faces in his or her day-to-day practice. Focus is given to client meetings/interactions, including potential pitfalls when representing multiple clients and generations and clients with diminished capacity. This class pays particular attention to scope of representation, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, work-product, and setting reasonable fees. The class is practice based and very interactive.


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  • LLM - 300B Estate Planning Practice Management


    1 unit(s)
    This course focuses on practical and tangible ways to achieve and build a successful estate planning practice. In this course, students will be exposed to “day to day” operations and tools for setting-up the infrastructure to help attain such a practice (e.g. effective marketing, social media, workshops, etc.). The “psychology” behind growing one’s practice and implementation of specific tangible methods shall also be shared and discussed. The course shall be interactive and student participation is required through the use of instructional exercises and role-plays. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 312 Estate Planning Externship


    2-3 unit(s)
    The Estate Planning Externship is a course, providing students with the opportunity to assist estate planning law firms and practitioners while obtaining hands-on, practical experience working on estate plans, conservatorships, trust and probate administrations. The course consists of two components: class and field work. The instructors are estate planning attorneys. The class will meet approximately every other week, to discuss substantive questions and practical hurdles, arising from their field work. Students are required to maintain and share journals, chronicling their weekly experiences, questions, and concerns. The class culminates with a paper/presentation. In the field component, each student is placed with an estate planning law firm or with a practitioner in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and shall complete 90 hours (2 units) or 135 hours (3 units) of field work over the span of the 15 week semester. The field work involves working on active cases in the areas of estate planning, conservatorships, trust and probate administrations. This course is offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement for JD students. Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites for LLM students: None. Prerequisites for JD students: LAW 807 Wills and Trusts . This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.


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  • LLM - 324 Generation Skipping Transfer Tax


    1 unit(s)
    This course studies the generation-skipping transfer tax rules that focus on direct skips, taxable distributions, taxable terminations, and their exceptions, including exceptions for grandfathered trusts. Emphasis is on understanding the statutory provisions, applicable regulations and strategies to minimize or to avoid the impact of the tax. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 325 Estate & Gift Taxation


    3 unit(s)
    This course provides an introduction to federal wealth transfer tax, including estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 326 Real Estate Taxation


    3 unit(s)
    This course explores the tax advantages of owning real property, acquisitions, operations, sales and exchanges, conversions and abandonments, aspects of financing, leasing, and forms of entity ownership of property. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.) Prerequisite(s): Recommended: LLM 322A Corporate Taxation .


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  • LLM - 330E Income Taxation for Estate Planners


    1 unit(s)
    This course introduces the income taxation concepts frequently encountered in estate planning. In this course, students will learn the fundamental principles of income recognition; expenses incurred in an active trade or business; determination of basis in assets; capital gains and losses; non-recognition provisions of the Internal Revenue Code; involuntary exchanges and sales of principal residences; and loss limitation rules relating to amounts at-risk and passive activities. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 334 Estate Planning


    3 unit(s)
    This course includes a study of various estate planning topics such as the unified credit, marital deductions, charitable deductions, generation-skipping transfers, life insurance, trusts and their uses, and family limited partnerships. Emphasis is on practical skills needed to create a uniform estate plan. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 334A Advanced Estate Planning


    2 unit(s)
    This course takes a comprehensive and detailed look into issues such as charitable organizations, valuation discounts, domestic partnerships, family limited partnerships, guardianships and conservatorships, trust and estate litigation, representing high net worth clients, irrevocable trusts, and law office management. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 334B Estate Planning for the Blended Family


    1 unit(s)
    For estate planners representing blended families such as second marriages, same sex relationships, and families with difficult children, this one-unit course will explore and analyze technical and tax issues surrounding the marital deduction, discretionary trust distributions, retirement plan distributions, community property characterization, tax allocation and payment planning, post mortem planning, death versus divorce and the individual psychologies of the parties. This course will also address ethical conflicts and dissect some “typical” estate planning documents to show drafting modifications appropriate for the blended family. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 334D Mediating Trust & Estate Disputes


    2 unit(s)
    Trust and estate practice is filled with actual and potential conflicts among close and distant family members and other interested persons. Effectively identifying and addressing these unique types and causes of conflicts are essential to a successful trust and estate practice. This course will enable the practitioner to sharpen his/her existing skills in dealing with these conflicts and disputes and equip the practitioner with new tools and methods for creative non-adversarial resolution. The students will learn by using real case scenarios in an interactive classroom setting that includes dispute resolution role-play. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director. This course meets the Experiential Learning requirement for JD students.)


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  • LLM - 334G Court Ordered Estate Planning


    1 unit(s)
    This is a practice oriented course designed to train students in the different ways to utilize the Court’s power to effect estate and other planning on behalf of a person with a mental or legal incapacity. Students will learn to: Do estate planning through the use of the “Substituted Judgment process” in Conservatorships; Do estate and financial planning for spouses through the use of the court process known as “Proceedings for a Particular Transaction” where one of the spouses lacks legal capacity and is not a conservatee; and Obtain court approval for the compromise of a minor’s legal claim. Students will prepare pleadings based on fact patterns as the weekly assignments, such that when the class is complete students will have working examples for their practices.


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  • LLM - 334H Litigating in Probate Court


    2 unit(s)
    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand types of litigation handled in Probate Court; be proficient in oral argument for Petitions and Motions typical in Probate Court; understand discovery tools and prepare a discovery plan for Probate Court Litigation; direct and cross examine witnesses; understand evidence for proof in Probate Court and proper objections, and; be proficient in preparing written Petitions and Objections to Petitions. Recommended: LLM 334C Probate Procedure . (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 334J Drafting Estate Plans


    1 unit(s)
    Students will have the opportunity to draft simple wills and the operative provisions of simple trusts (without significant tax implications), culminating in a basic estate plan. Students will engage in drafting based on written materials, and also based on information elicited from client interviews.


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  • LLM - 334K Internet Law & Digital Asset Inheritance


    2 unit(s)
    This course will provide an overview of Internet Law as it applies to the estate planning and administration profession. The course will also cover a sampling of digital assets and applicable intellectual property concepts and valuation theories along with possibilities and emerging practices for post death transfer of digital assets. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 344 Income Taxation of Trusts & Estates


    2 unit(s)
    This course analyzes the income taxation of trusts and estates, their creators, beneficiaries, and fiduciaries, including computation of distributable net income, taxable net income, taxation of simple and complex trusts, grantor trusts, and income in respect of a decedent. The course will focus on federal income tax issues, although state taxation of estates and trusts will also be addressed. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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  • LLM - 351 International Estate Planning


    1 unit(s)
    This course addresses estate, inheritance, gift, and income taxation of trusts and estates as they relate to U.S. citizens living abroad, foreign nationals in the United States, and nonresident aliens. Analysis includes comparative law, estate and gift tax treaties, conflicts of law, and choice of law in selected jurisdictions. Recommended: LLM 344 Income Taxation of Trusts & Estates ; LLM 321N International Taxation . (Offered through the LLM in Taxation and Estate Planning Programs. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)


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SJD International

  
  
  • SJD - 911 SJD Additional Residency


    0 unit(s)
    This course is for SJD students who require an extra semester of residency before sitting for their qualifying oral exam. Tuition effective Fall 2012 is US$1000 each term and all other fees apply.


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  • SJD - 920 SJD Candidacy (Local)


    0 unit(s)
    This course is for SJD students who have advanced to candidacy and will continue work on their dissertation in the San Francisco Bay Area at GGU. Tuition effective Fall 2012 is US$1000 each term and all fees apply.


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  • SJD - 921 SJD Candidacy (US non-local)


    0 unit(s)
    This course is for SJD students who have advanced to candidacy and will continue work on their dissertations in the United States but not in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tuition is US$0 and only the “Registration” fee and applicable “international student” fees apply.


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  • SJD - 922 SJD Candidacy (Non-US)


    0 unit(s)
    This course is for SJD students who have advanced to candidacy and will continue work on their dissertations outside of the United States. Tuition is US$0 and only the “Registration” fee applies.


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  • SJD - 931 SJD Dissertation Seminar


    3 unit(s)
    The purpose of this seminar is to provide collaborative support, intellectual and scholarly context, and useful direction and practical assistance to students in the Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD) program. Students pursue their own research with readings, discussions and workshop activities in the seminar complementing each candidate’s ongoing tutorial relationship with thesis supervisors, advisers, and committee members. At the end of the seminar each student will be expected to complete a revised proposal, or draft chapter of his or her dissertation, which will be graded. In addition the final two seminar sessions will be devoted to individual presentations to the class. This seminar is required for all students in the SJD program.


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  • SJD - 995 Curricular Practical Training (SJD)


    1-2 unit(s)
    Qualified international students in valid F-1 visa status may obtain practical training by participating in clinical programs, legal internships and externships, and law clerk positions under the guidance of the program director and a faculty adviser. To qualify, students must demonstrate competence in legal writing and research and obtain written authorization from an international student adviser. May be taken a maximum of three times. Open only to students in SJD program.


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