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1.00 Credits
Students are required to play the role of lawyer for a party in a hypothetical business transaction. The course thus provides students the opportunity to apply and develop analytical and drafting skills in connection with legal issues and problems that typically arise in the negotiation and drafting involved in such a transaction.Prerequisites: Basic Tax Accounting for Lawyers, Business Organizations I, Individual Taxation, Business Planning and Drafting, Business Organizations II, Securities Regulation.Grade of at least "B," in Business Organizations I, or cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 after first year courses completed.
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1.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on specific constitutional issues currently pending in the federal courts, including in the United States Supreme Court.The seminar will explore five separate, distinct constitutuional issues in particular depth.The final grade will be based on classroom participation and a written essay that explores on or more issues in scholarly detail.Prerequisite: Constitutional Law
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1.00 Credits
Upon completion of Wealth Transfers, the student enrolls in a capstone course which provides the student with the opportunity to work one on one with a faculty member in order to apply through drafting exercises what the student learned in the substantive course and also to experience the types of problems lawyers in this area of the law handle on a routine basis.Prerequisites: Trusts and Estates and Wealth TransfersGrade of at least "B," in Trusts Estates, or cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 after first year courses completed.
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1.00 Credits
A student works one on one with a faculty member working through a series of exercises designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop and apply analytical and problem solving skills in connection with topics covered in Administration of Estates. This course allows the student to experience the types of problems lawyers practicing in this field handle on a routine basis.Prerequisites: Trusts and Estates and Administration of EstatesGrade of at least "B," in Administration of Esates, or cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 after first year courses completed.
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1.00 Credits
A study of the aspects of preparation, settlement, and trial of personal injury cases.
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2.00 Credits
An introduction to appellate advocacy in which students research and write an appellate brief and participate in a required oral advocacy exercise.
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2.00 Credits
An introduction to basic accounting and tax principles with primary emphasis on business and investment income and deductions, and acquisition and sale of assets. Students also will learn to read basic financial statements, including a balance sheet and profit and loss statement, and to calculate basic financial ratios. Additionally, tax consequences related to general litigation and divorce proceedings will be covered.
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2.00 Credits
A study of the law of labor relations, including union elections, the negotiation and administration of collective bargaining agreements, unfair labor or practices, and dispute settlement.
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2.00 Credits
This course is a general survey and analysis of privacy issues that are the direct result of advances in technology.Topics discussed will include: (1) Internet privacy, including issues related to anonymity, commercial profiling and spam; (2) Health and genetic privacy, including issues relating to medical records, confidentiality of physician-patient relationships, DNA databases and genetic discrimination; (3) Law enforcement privacy, including issues related to wiretapping, surveillance, and counter-terrorism and post 9/11 reactions.
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2.00 Credits
This limited enrollment seminar involves the study and informed discussion of how the American legal system has been influenced (or perhaps has not, depending on perspective) by scriptural principles as those principles illuminate the moral, ethical and philosophical bases of our legal culture.A research paper will be required and attendance at all seminar sessions is mandatory.
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