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4.00 Credits
This course examines how businesses are organized in the United States and the variety or legal regulations they face. It considers the different forms of business organizations, including sole proprietorships, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and the various forms of incorporated business enterprises, with the goal of establishing which form of organization is best suited for a variety of business goals. The course emphasizes the rights and obligations of the various parties in the business relationship-employees, promoters, partners, and corporate officers, directors investors, and stockholders, as well as their attorneys. Special focus also is devoted to the question of control of closely-held corporations. These general themes are examined in the context of specific corporate issues, including executive compensation; proxy contests; basic securities fraud and insider trading; and mergers, acquisitions, and tender offers. The course also includes an introduction to basic principles of corporate finance. 4. 000 Credit Hours 4. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
An analysis of the various methods of achieving proper life-time and testamentary planning, include the preparation of documents in connection with estate plans such as wills and trusts. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare students to recognize and deal with ethical issues in the practice of law. Topics investigated include: conflicts of interest, actual and potential, and the limits on representation required; confidentiality in the context of an adversarial system; lawyers' responsibilities as advocates in and out of the courtroom; ethical problems encountered by corporate and government lawyers; special problems facing prosecution and criminal defense lawyers; advertising and solicitation; and admission to the Bar. Actual and hypothetical problems are analyzed in light of the Code of Professional Responsibility and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, subjecting both sets of rules to critical analysis. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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3.00 Credits
Public policies and economic considerations underlying trademark law are analyzed as backgrounds for understanding trademark fundamentals. This course covers the creation, maintenance and enforcement of trademark rights. Major topics include: the registration process and the benefits of federal registration; intent-to-use applications; descriptive marks and secondary meaning; generic marks; scandalous and immoral marks; abandonment; concurrent rights; imitation and counterfeit goods; infringement and dilution; incontestability; fair use; functionality; remedies. The course will also cover unfair competition law focusing on section 43 of the Lanham Act and include topics such as false advertising and rights of publicity. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
An exploration of the mediation process as an alternative to traditional litigation. The course explores the role of the mediator as well as the role of attorneys in the mediation process. This is a simulation course in which students participate in several mediations. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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3.00 Credits
The Labor/Employment Law Externship Program is offered through the Labor/ Employment Law Certificate Program. The externship is available to students enrolled in the Labor/Employment Law Certificate Program during their last year of the law school and is used to satisfy the experiential learning requirement of the certificate program. The educational objective of the externship is to provide the student externs with a well supervised lawyering experience in labor or employment law by enabling each of them to extern with a law school approved placement. Student externs are placed with a law firm, corporation, union or government agency. Externs spend approximately fifteen hours per week during the fourteen-week semester at their designated placements and attend periodic meetings with the faculty supervisor. Students in the program enroll in a three-credit field-work course grades on a pass/low pass/fail basis and a one credit graded classroom course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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1.00 Credits
This course combines the study of major federal statutes governing pollution problems with the study of national environmental policy formulation. The course will take an interdisciplinary approach, looking at history, economic theory and analysis, and other disciplines. The course emphasizes the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act as the main vehicles for exploring complex statutory schemes, administrative policy-making, market environmental controls, the interplay of federal and state environmental programs, benefit-cost analysis risk analysis, and environmental litigation. This is the first semester of a two-semester course sequence. While it is required for students in the Program in Environmental and Energy Law, it is open to all students. The course can be taken without the second semester course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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2.00 Credits
2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Business, Graduate, Master of Laws, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Chicago- Kent College of Law College Law Department
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