The course covers fundamental accounting techniques in the contexts in which a lawyer is likely to confront accounting issues.
Building a Successful Practice
This practical course deals with business planning and corporate formation information and advice for students who wish to open their own law practice.
Business Basics for Lawyers
This course will provide students with an understanding of fundamental business topics such as accounting and financial reporting, investments and the financial markets, and an overview of macro-economic principles.
Commercial Law
A substantive foundational course that deals with the laws, regulations, and policies governing commercial transactions. This is one of the four upper-level gateway courses of which all students are required to complete two or three for graduation.
Corporations
This upper-level Core Curriculum course covers the formation, organization, purposes, and powers of business corporations, the distribution of powers between shareholders and directors, the duties and liabilities of directors and officers, and more.
Financial Advocacy
The goal of this course is both to educate students substantively on the issues of personal and small business finance and to make these issues more approachable and understandable.
Securities Arbitration Clinic
In this clinic, students will learn how to conduct factual and legal analysis, draft pleadings, and represent clients in securities arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority under the supervision of experienced attorneys.