Business and Transactional Practice
As a lawyer in Business and Transactional Practice, you would be required to have a background in areas such as contracts, the law of business organizations, securities regulation, antitrust, and bankruptcy, and you would have to have developed skills in interviewing, drafting, and negotiation. As a transactional lawyer, you would be structuring transactions, drafting and negotiating agreements and other documents, and counseling your client in order to help your client achieve its business objectives within the law and the lowest cost. You would also need to prepare and file documents required by state and federal law. Your work would involve transactions such as the sale or lease of goods or services, licensings, financings, secured transactions, securities offerings, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, payment systems and bankruptcy.
General Courses
- Administrative Law
- Antitrust
- Arbitration: Law, Policy and Practice
- Bankruptcy
- Broker-Dealer and Investment Regulation
- Business Ethics
- Business Organizations
- Corporate and White Collar Crime
- Corporate Contests
- Corporate Finance
- Economic Analysis of Law
- Employee Benefits
- Employment Discrimination
- Federal Tax
- Intellectual Property
- International Business Transactions
- International Finance
- International Trade and Investment
- Labor Law I and II
- Land Use Planning
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Regulation of Financial Institutions
- Regulatory State
- Sales
- Secured Transactions
- Securities Litigation Enforcement
- Securities Regulation 1933 Act
- Securities Regulation 1934 Act
- Selected Problems in Securities Law
- Tax Policy
- Taxation of Business Entities
Practical Writing Courses
- Administrative Practice
- Business Acquisitions
- Business Planning
- Commercial Law Drafting
- Contract Drafting
- Drafting Business Transactions
- Drafting International Commercial Instruments
- E-Business
- In House Counsel
- International Commercial Arbitration
Clinics and Externships
- Consumer Bankruptcy
- Federal Tax Clinic
- Law & Entrepreneurship Externship
- Pennsylvania Attorney General (Consumer Protection)
- Security and Exchange Commission Externship
