Registration Guide 2024-2025

CONCENTRATIONS

B. Business Practicum Courses and Externships

at least 2 credits

Students must also take one (1) of the business practicum courses listed below or, alternatively, complete a for-credit externship with a business or financial placement pre-approved by the Concentration Faculty Director. Students who opt to complete more than one (1) course from this list may count the additional course(s) as a Concentration elective(s). Externships for the concentration must relate to business law or financial services and eligible externships will be determined by the Concentration Director. All eligible externships must be accompanied by a corresponding classroom component. The classroom component may be satisfied by enrollment in either Legal Process and Practice or in an approved business law or financial services elective course. Students will not receive Concentration credit for their enrollment in Legal Process and Practice. Students who seek to satisfy the classroom component in conjunction with a financial services elective must be supervised in their externship by the full time resident course professor.

Business Law or Financial Services externships (placement requires pre- approval by Administrative Director and a Faculty Director)

2 or 3 credits

Business of Practice: Hitting the Ground Running

2 credits

Business Planning: Formation

2 credits

Compliance Practice Seminar

2 credits

Design Thinking for Lawyers & Business Professionals

3 credits

Intellectual Property Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic

2 credits

Negotiating Business Transactions - Simulation

5 credits

Negotiation

2 credits

2 credits

Online Dispute Resolution for ADR

2 credits

Securities Law Moot Court Team

5 credits

Transactional Clinic

C. Elective Course Requirements:

At least 6 credits

Business Law & Financial Services

Students who opt to receive the Concentration certificate in Business Law may choose, at their own discretion, among the following courses to complete the elective course component of the Concentration. Special Requirements for students who opt to receive the Concentration certificate in Business Law and Financial Services are noted immediately following this elective course list.

Accounting for Lawyers

2 credits

Antitrust

3 credits

Banking Law

3 credits

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