LAW 6920 - Lawyering Skills: Transactional I

Introduction to Transactional Skills

This course is a basic survey course providing a valuable introduction to the practical and critical skills necessary for students when working on transactional matters for their clients.

The course recognizes that more than 75% of attorneys are involved in regulatory and transactional practices. Whether exclusively transactional work or the necessary transactions involved in the resolution of potential litigation or post-litigation settlement, each and every student and attorney need to have a familiarity with the issues and skills of transactional lawyering.

As time permits in a short introductory course such as this, the course examines through reading and numerous actual in-class exercises, some or all of the topics of:

• What is Involved in Transactional Lawyering
• Due Diligence
• Deal Design
• The Components of an Agreement
• The Proper Use of Forms
• Boilerplate
• Drafting with Precision
• The Tactics and Ethics of Negotiation.