Courses

    The practice of corporate law has undergone dramatic changes in the past forty years. What was once a one-dimensional approach to problem solving has become a multi-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. A corporate law practice involves not just knowing the law, but understanding the factual context in which issues arise and how slight (and unexpected) changes can create a totally different environment requiring different answers and different proposed solutions. Moreover, the skill sets that are needed in a corporate law practice are not limited to an understanding of legal issues, but an understanding of the business and policy issues that give rise to the legal issued being posed. This seminar is designed to introduce students to the environment in which today’s corporate practice occurs and then to provide the opportunity to address the types of legal problems that they are likely to face in a corporate context. The class will engage in problem solving on a real time basis. Members of the class, divided into teams, will be asked to provide legal advice to senior management on a variety of problems. Each problem will be based on composites of real life situations. Students will be evaluated based on class participation, written assignments, and an oral presentation.