Skills for NextGen: Client Scenarios in Torts

Skills for NextGen: Client Scenarios in Torts, First Edition by Professors Conway and Westenskow is a skills-focused book for a traditional Torts course that presents client-based scenarios bridging doctrinal learning and lawyering practice. Skills for NextGen offers law students a rigorous yet practical way to learn Tort law by simulating the tasks that lawyers perform in practice. The book presents fictitious yet realistic client scenarios that contextualize major Tort doctrines and asks students to respond by completing tasks that develop essential lawyering competencies. Designed to align with the skills tested on the NextGen UBE, the book emphasizes foundational skills such as issue-spotting, client counseling, legal research, negotiation, and professional judgment.

Features of this book:

• Dozens of practical exercises based on client-centered fact patterns
• Exercises that model client files and include client records, professional documents, and integrated legal authority
• Multiple exercises within each client file encourage students to evaluate the evidence and complete traditional lawyering tasks
• Sample answers for self-assessment and formative learning
• Alignment with foundational lawyering skills tested on the NextGen UBE
• Structured around core topics in a typical 1L Torts course

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Professors can integrate modular exercises easily within their course syllabus
• Exercises are not tied to any specific Torts casebook or jurisdiction, making them adaptable to any doctrinal approach
• Students develop practical skills while reinforcing doctrinal understanding
• Academic support faculty can use stand-alone exercises for diagnostics, skills training, and assessing bar readiness
• Built-in materials allow for self-paced practice or in-class application