Advising Commercial Business Clients
SLN #: 12089Course Prefix: LAW-791
Course Section: 1005
Credit Hours: 2
Instructor(s): Nguyen
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Course Description:
This course teaches students to look at a project through the lens of supporting a single client’s project from inception through commercialization. Students will combine their existing training related to contract interpretation, drafting, and negotiation with skills developed to better understand business goals, legal risks, and situational context to provide practical and efficient legal advice. These skills include communicating with clients to understand the client’s business goals, identifying immediate and long-term risks, providing legal advice that balances identified risks with business goals and market realities, and understanding that identical clauses have different consequences in different contracts.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
A. Understand the general framework of a corporate project from start (in R&D), through manufacturing and sourcing, through sale to end customer.
B. Identify and discuss with clients the key risks that each contract or scenario in the framework bring.
C. Provide practical counseling to clients on contracts that come from the client’s third party partners/vendors/customers while being able to explain the logic for the feedback and short/long term consequences.
D. Understand that there are multiple “right” answers to advancing a client’s project along.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 2
Grading Option: Letter Grade Only
Written Assignment: Yes
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible/Upper-Level Writing Requirement: No
Skills Requirement: No
Simulation Course: No
Experiential Learning: Yes
Seminar: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Limited Enrollment Number: 16
Final Exam Given: No
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Teaching Method: In Person
* The law school has a policy that is used to calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.