Transactional Drafting for Business Clients (Stearns)
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
Drafting Legal Documents
Other Professional Skills:
Grading
25% Participation,
75% Other (The majority of the final grade (75%) will be based on homework(drafting exercises) completed between classes.)
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can make PowerPoint slides or other class materials available to you.
Meeting Times/Location
W 6:40PM - 8:30PM
Silverman Hall 245A
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
2.0
This course shall introduce students to concepts and skills necessary to draft (and negotiate) effective transactional documents for the business client. Students will learn common contract provisions, and differences among types of contracts. More importantly, students will analyze contract language from the client's perspective: advancing the client's interests while mitigating its risk. This course shall also teach students to translate a client's business objectives into legal concepts, and to negotiate and memorialize those concepts into the actual contract language. Finally, the course identifies how transactional attorneys use contract language to solve problems that arise during deal diligence and negotiation. Students will engage in discussion and simulation exercises during class, and practice discrete drafting assignments between classes.
Students who have previously completed either LAW 950- Contract Drafting or LAW 915 - Transactional Drafting shall not be eligible for enrollment in this course.
Business and Corporate Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of business and corporate law; Perform legal analysis in the context of business and corporate law; Communicate effectively on topics related to business and corporate law; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection between the world of business and finance and that of business and corporate law, and how they affect other areas of law and society.
Skills Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of the individual course skill; Demonstrate the ability to receive and implement feedback; Demonstrate an understanding of how and when the individual course skill is employed in practice.
Textbooks
"Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What they Do" by Tina Stark |