2022-2023 Registration Guide

AREAS OF FOCUS

more likely to be organized in non-corporate forms. Counseling these businesses is often going to require some passing familiarity (whether to perform the work or to spot issues that need to be referred to specialists) with estate planning, bankruptcy, accounting, and real estate, among others. Small company lawyers are also frequently called upon for business and strategic advice. Helpful courses include Business Planning; Conveyancing; Trusts and Estates; Negotiation; and Private Placement/Venture Capital. Non-Profits . Many businesses and other private sector organizations are organized as non-profit or other eleemosynary corporations. Hospitals, education institutions, cultural organizations, foundations, charitable societies, and non-governmental organizations can be large and complex, and involve legal issues much like those facing profit-based corporations. They are often funded by charitable contributions or other fund-raising activities. Helpful courses include: Corporate Finance; Estate and Gift Tax; Administrative Law; Education Law; Medicare and Medicaid. Insurance Industry . Representing insurance companies, apart from what is known as "insurance defense" litigation, presents particular issues of regulation and organization. The insurance industry is highly complex, and legal work can involve, among other things, traditional corporate governance work, traditional finance industry issues, drafting policy provisions, dealing with agency networks and distributions issues, negotiating and drafting reinsurance treaties, licensing and other regulatory issues, litigation with policy-holders over coverage issues, rate-making in state administrative agencies, and insurance company insolvency (which is regulated by the individual states). Helpful courses include: Insurance Law; Administrative Law; Securities Regulation; Admiralty Law. Extra-curricular activities include the Suffolk Business Law Association; Sports and Entertainment Law Association; Tax Moot Court; Securities Moot Court. The Business Law and Financial Services Concentration also facilitates placement in business law related externships.

Recommended Courses

Basic Federal Income Taxation

Business Entity Fundamentals

Other Relevant Courses

Accounting for Lawyers

Entrepreneurship, VC, and the Law

Administrative Law

Estate and Gift Taxation

Admiralty Law

Federal Taxation of Property

Antitrust

Inside Job: In-House Counsel

Banking Law

Insurance Law

Bankruptcy Introduction

International Investment Law

Bankruptcy Reorganizations

Investment Management Regulation

Business Planning

Negotiation

Commercial Law Sales and Leases

Private Placements and VC Practicum

Commercial Law Survey

Secured Transactions

Commercial Paper

Securities Regulation

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