Requirements

Core Requirements

• Business Associations - 4A03
• Mergers & Acquisitions - 4A01
• Securities Regulation - 4A05
• Business Planning I: Financing the Start-up Business and Venture Capital Financing - 4N34

Research Requirement

In addition to these classes, there is a required a research seminar offered by law librarians on staff that addresses corporate and securities law research problems and techniques.

Advanced Electives

Students also must take at least four units of electives (typically two courses) that add to the substantive knowledge base needed by a corporate transactional lawyer. The following list includes all courses and their unit values offered from Fall 2009 though Spring 2012 that are satisfactory electives. Units for overlapping courses will not be counted twice. This list may be updated to reflect additional courses offered during the 2012-13 academic year:

• Commercial Law (4)
• Corporate Taxation I & II (4) (Also may be offered as two stand-alone 2 unit classes)
• Partnership Taxation I & II (4) (Also may be offered as two stand-alone 2 unit classes)
• Antitrust Law (3)
• Bankruptcy (3)
• Copyright Law (3)
• Corporate Finance (3)
• Employment Law (3)
• Financial Institutions (3)
• Green Energy Project Development and Finance (3)
• Healthcare Organizations: Business Planning and Regulatory Compliance(3) or (2)
• Income Tax I (3)
• International Business Transactions (3)
• Introduction to Intellectual Property (3)
• Law of Sales: Domestic and International (3)
• Patent Law (3)
• Secured Transactions in Personal Property (3)
• Secured Transactions in Real Property (3)
• Trademark Law (3)
• Accounting for Lawyers (2)
• Accounting for Income Taxes: An Introduction for Lawyers (2)
• Bankruptcy Reorganizations (2) or (3)
• California Business Torts (2)
• California Property Tax Planning for Businesses
• Commercial Law Drafting and Negotiation Skills (2)
• Comparative Antitrust (2)
• Corporate Bankruptcy Reorganizations (2)
• Corporate Governance Seminar (2)
• Global Antitrust Law and Policy (2)
• Corporate Taxation I (2)
• Corporate Taxation II (2)
• Employee Pensions and Benefits (2)
• Employment Law (2)
• Executive Compensation (2)
• Financial Analysis (2)
• Financial Institutions (2)
• Financing Entertainment Industry Ventures (2)
• Franchise Law (2)
• Income Tax Timing Issues (2)
• Intellectual Property Licensing Transactions (2)
• International Finance (2)
• International Licensing and Technology Transfer (2)
• International Taxation I (2)
• International Taxation II (2)
• Introduction to Structured Finance (2)
• Motion Pictures: Finance and Production Seminar (2) or (3)
• Partnership Taxation I (2)
• Partnership Taxation II (2)
• Reality TV and New Media Production and Distribution (2)
• Tax Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions (2)
• Tax Strategies for the Digital Age (2)
• Television Programming and Production Financing (2)
• Trade Secret Law (2)
• Transactional Negotiation Team (1)

Experiential Opportunities

Students must complete the capstone course, Business Planning I: Financing the Start-Up and Venture Capital Financing.  This course allows students to understand the lawyer's role in planning and completing business transactions on behalf of start-up businesses by taking a "client" (i.e., an entrepreneur) through a "simulated deal" (i.e., a capital raising transaction for the new business client). Use of this simulated deal format acquaints students with the legal, ethical and business issues that confront the transactional lawyer in representing an early stage growth company.

Although they will not count towards the elective unit requirements noted above, students are also encouraged to consider other experiential offerings related to the practice of corporate law, through internships and externships. In addition to academic advising, students enrolled in the Corporate Law Concentration will be invited to unique networking opportunities and offered career guidance.

Any questions about the Concentration or counseling issues should be directed to the Concentration Faculty Advisor, Professor Warren at dana.m.warren@lls.edu.