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Fall 2020
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LAW560
AS TRANSACTIONAL SKILLS II
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Course Description
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This course, Deal Skills, is part of the integrated transactional skills curriculum and will focus on the work of deal lawyers. Students learn, through both traditional class settings and simulations, how an agreement is structured and to perform tasks typically assigned to junior associates including performing diligence and negotiating and drafting various transactional documents. It will also include the preparation of board minutes and resolutions, third-party opinion letters, and closing documents. Students will study letters of intent, indemnities, loan, pledge and security agreements, guaranties, escrows, and operating/shareholders’ agreements. The course will integrate how to interview and counsel clients, and transaction management as part of the study of these agreements.
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Course Schedule
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08-17-2020 - 11-17-2020
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4:10 PM-5:50 PM
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F108
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08-17-2020 - 11-17-2020
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4:10 PM-5:00 PM
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DL
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Course Frequency
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Course Information
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Credits:
3
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Pass/Fail Option:
Yes
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Prerequisite:
Business Associations; preferred: Transactional Drafting and Practice & Transactional Lawyering:Negotiating and Drafting Contracts
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Grading:
Graded
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Method of Evaluation:
The class is graded as Honors, Pass, Fail, based on homework assignments, class participation and final exam.
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Graduation Requirements Fulfilled By Course:
Skills Requirement
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Special Attributes:
New Course
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Course Delivery:
Blended (part residential and part online)
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Special Restrictions:
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Law Track(s):
None
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Bar Subject(s):
None
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Concentration(s):
None
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Course Book(s):
Textbook Required:
Yes
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Textbook Name: Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Required
Author: Tina L. Stark
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780735594777
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Textbook Name: Working With Contracts: What Law School Doesn't Teach You
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Required
Author: Charles Fox
Publisher: Practising Law Institute
Edition: 2nd Edition, 2008
ISBN: 9781402410604
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Textbook Name: Transactional Skills, How to Structure and Document a Deal
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Required
Author: Stephen Sepinuck and John Hilson
Publisher: West Academic
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781642426083
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First Class Assignment(s):
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Assignment:
For the First Class please read the following 1) Syllabus (attached); 2) Defining Key Competencies for Business Lawyers, The Business Lawyer, Volume 72 page 101, Winter 2016-2017 (find online); 3) Documenting the Deal: How Quality Control and Candor Can Improve Boardroom Decision-making and Reduce the Litigation Target Zone, 70 The Business Lawyer 679 (Summer 2015) (find online; 4) Fox - Chapter 3 (required reading material); 5) Sepinuck - Chapters 1 and 8 (required reading material); 6) Anatomy of a Deal PowerPoint (attached).
Material:
Required Reading Material: 1) Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do by Tina L. Stark, 2nd Edition. Wolters Kluwer, Law and Business ISBN 978-0-7355-9477-7; 2) Transactional Skills, How to Structure and Document a Deal by Stephen Sepinuck and John Hilson (2015) West Academic ISBN-13: 978-1642426083; 3) Working With Contracts; What Law School Doesn’t Teach You, Second Edition by Charles Fox (2008) Practising Law Institute ISBN 978-1-4024-1060-4.
Additional Information:
Updated Syllabus and PowerPoint attached.
36263464_v 1_Anatomy of a Deal -Participant Version - January 2020.pdf
#36928897v8_ADMIN_ - Draft Syllabus 3 Credit Transactional Drafting and Skills Class.docx
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