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Skills for NextGen: Client Scenarios in Torts, First Edition

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Authors
  • Shannon W. Conway
  • Meijken Westenskow
Series / Bar Review Series
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Book length
384 pages
Publication Date
2025-12-17
Edition
First Edition
Description
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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
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Summary of Contents

Introduction 


Part I Intentional Torts 
1. Battery and Assault 
2. False Imprisonment 
3. Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress 
4. Trespass to Land 
5. Trespass to Chattels 
6. Defenses to Intentional Torts 
Part II Negligence 
7. Duty of Care 
8. Breach 
9. Causation 
10. Special Cases
Part III Other Torts 
11. Defamation 
12. Invasion of the Right to Privacy / Intrusion upon Seclusion 
13. Misrepresentation 
14. Products Liability 
15. Strict Liability 
16. Nuisance 


Appendix: Exercise Sample Answers 

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About the authors
Shannon W. Conway

Professor Shannon Conway is an Assistant Professor of Law, teaching Torts, Advanced Torts, Consumer Law, and Insurance Law. Professor Conway graduated from the Catholic University Columbus School of Law in 1999, where she spent four years as a student in the Evening Program while working full-time in the DC office of Patton Boggs LLP.

Following graduation from law school, Professor Conway continued her employment with Patton Boggs LLP as an associate, splitting her litigation practice between insurance coverage litigation and complex securities litigation. She also dedicated a substantial number of hours each year to the pro bono representation of underserved members of the community in need of legal services.

In 2004, Professor Conway moved to Patton Boggs’ Dallas office, where she continued her dual litigation practice and was named a Partner of the firm. She later joined forces with a former partner and friend and formed Franklin Scott Conway LLP, where she has represented corporate policyholders in insurance coverage disputes, investors in securities litigation, and plaintiffs in various consumer litigation matters.

Professor Conway joined the College of Law in 2019 and prior to her current role as an Assistant Professor of Law, served as a Professor of Practice, teaching Bar Strategies courses and helping students and graduates prepare for the bar exam.

Meijken Westenskow

Meijken Westenskow is a Senior Professor of Practice and Assistant Director of Academic Success and Bar Readiness at UNT Dallas College of Law. Professor Westenskow has extensive experience supporting law students and bar examinees through individual coaching, small-group instruction, and institutional programming. She teaches lawyering and bar-focused courses and oversees curricular development, faculty collaboration, student interventions, and data-informed bar readiness programming. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. from Brigham Young University.
Product Information
Edition
First Edition
Publication date
2025-12-17
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
384
Paperback
9798894101361
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798894101378
Subject
Bar Preparation , Tort Law
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