YAY! I just turned in my Capstone Project!

[soliloquy]

Hey, what issue/topic did you do your capstone on?

I created an appellate brief to my State's Supreme Court based on a (criminal law) fact pattern my classmate and instructor helped me select.

It consisted of the following:

Part 1 (Introduction)
Project Introduction
Fact Pattern

Part 2 (Appellate Brief)
Coversheet
Index
Table of Authorities
Questions Presented
Statement of the Case
Statement of the Grounds for Appellate Review
Statement of the Facts
Summary of Argument
Argument
Conclusion w signature block
Certificates

It was the best way to display what I learned for my concentration. It was a lot of work. I think a research paper would have been easier! I've been a paralegal for more than a decade but we don't handle criminal law cases and we don't handle criminal appeals (usually firms specialize in appeals) so it was all new territory for me. I learned a lot though.