Transactional Skills Lab

3 credits · Law School

This course is designed to introduce students to the transactional lawyering skills that all lawyers need in practice. These skills include the abilities to: (i) plan and structure a transaction to achieve the client's objective, which includes identifying events that might later interfere with the intended transaction or the parties' relationship; (ii) produce appropriate documentation for a transaction, which includes knowing how to use appropriately the different types of contract terms (e.g., covenants, conditions, representations, warranties, discretionary authority, declarations) and how to draft each type of term; (iii) identify and eliminate ambiguity in the language of written agreements; and (iv) conduct appropriate due diligence for a transaction. Students will complete several drafting projects, beginning with brief and discrete contract terms and building up to entire agreements. Enrollment limited. [3]