WHAT LAWYERS WHO PRACTICE IN THIS FIELD DO
Business lawyers assist clients with their ownership, operational, and commercial needs.
- Their clients can range from small, family-owned companies to large, publicly-held corporations, and practice areas can include corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, commercial, bankruptcy, real estate, environmental, and tax law.
- Other types of transactional practice areas include health law, communications law, banking, intellectual property, and employment and labor law.
- Business and transactional lawyers frequently act as advisors, and should possess strong drafting, planning, and negotiation skills.
COURSES THAT CAN PREPARE YOU
The Chase curriculum requires foundational courses for all students and offers additional courses for specialized expertise.
Required
- Contracts I & II
- Property I & II
- Business Organizations
- UCC Basics
Advanced
- Bankruptcy
- Business Basics for Lawyers
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Ethics for Transactional Lawyers
- Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions
- Insurance Law
- International Business Transactions
- Intellectual Property Survey
- Law, Business & Entrepreneurship
- Labor Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Representing Small Business
- Securities Regulation
- Startups and Venture Capital Law
- Tax: Business Organizations and Business Planning
Skills
- Accounting for Lawyers
- Contract Drafting
- Drafting International Business Agreements
Experiential
- Small Business and Nonprofit Law Clinic
- Advanced Small Business Clinic
FACULTY MEMBERS WHO TEACH BUSINESS AND TRANSACTIONAL LAW-RELATED COURSES
Professors
- Eric Alden
- Sharlene Graham
- Anthony Chavez
- Dennis Honabach
- Kenneth Katkin
- Jennifer Kreder
- Ljubomir Nacev
Adjunct Faculty Members
- Michael Carr
- Robert Goering, Jr.
- JB Lind
- Steven Ray
- Eric Richardson
- Bernadine Topazio
CAREER PATH EXPERIENCES THAT CAN SET YOU APART
Here are some of the ways in which to develop necessary practice skills.
- Work as a summer associate or law clerk at a law firm handling business, transactional, contractual, or compliance issues.
- Serve as a law clerk or extern in a corporation’s legal or compliance department.
- Participate in the Small Business and Nonprofit Law Clinic, and obtain a limited law license to represent clients in traditional business law matters.
- Complete skills courses to develop necessary advanced drafting and negotiation skills.
- Take advantage of networking opportunities to meet lawyers practicing in the area of business and transactional law.
- Shadow business or transactional law attorneys to learn more about this area of practice.
BAR EXAMINATION FACTOR
Most jurisdictions include essay questions about Business Organizations—corporations, partnerships, agency relationships, etc.—on their bar examinations, but these topics are not tested in the multiple choice component.
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