Kenneth W. Gaines
Associate Professor of Law
Department of Clinical Legal Studies
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Contact Information
Room 131
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-8903
f 803-777-3401
gaineskw@gwm.sc.edu
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Courses
ADVANCED TRIAL ADVOCACY, LAWS 754 (2 hours) This course will build on the skills learned in basic trial advocacy courses. Focus will be on more complex advocacy problems. Areas covered will include direct and cross examination, qualifying and examining expert witnesses, problems injury selection, trial motions, offers of proof, and other means of preventing or preserving trial error. Other topic will include use of demonstrative evidence, including foundations for sophisticated exhibits, and taking and the use of depositions and other discovery at trial.
CRIMINAL PRACTICE CLINIC, LAWS 757 (3 hours) The clinic will afford participating students an opportunity to gain first hand, closely supervised training and experience in the representation of real clients and the practice of the arts/skills of litigation planning, client counseling, fact development, negotiation and courtroom advocacy. The vehicle for such training and experience is the planning, preparation and presentation of the legal defense in actual cases involving allegations of criminal conduct. All casework will be done under the supervision of a clinical professor.
CRIMINAL TRIAL PRACTICE, LAWS 681 (3 hours) Understanding of the practical problems that arise in criminal cases; criminal investigation, pleadings and motions practice, criminal evidence, preliminary hearings, appeals, jury selection, discovery, trial practice, and other related issues.
PRETRIAL PRACTICE, LAWS 753 (3 hours) The objective of this course is to develop an analytical framework to convert legal theory into action in actual practice at the pretrial stage. The course will focus on specific skills and techniques in interviewing, fact investigation, discovery, motion practice, counseling, and negotiation. We will consider these as individual skills and as they relate to each other and impact upon the overall development and implementation of a theory of the case.
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