LAW70460 - Contracts Drafting

(1 unit)

Students will learn how to consider and understand a business deal, how to use contract concepts to accurately reflect the understanding of the parties, and how to use contract concepts to protect the interest of a particular party. Students will draft, revise and improve agreements based on hypothetical or actual business situations during in-class exercises and written assignments. Documents reviewed or drafted will include typical transactional documents, such as employment agreements, leases, or asset purchases. Assignments may also include ancillary transactional documents such as Letters of Intent, Term Sheets, and Nondisclosure Agreements.

During the course students will have opportunities to write portions of different contracts. Not the entire contract, although there will be an assignment of a simple contract writing in week three of the course. The final exam will be an essay similar to the Bar Exam’s performance test. Students will be asked to write a contract based on a fact pattern.
Prerequisites: LAW60020, LAW60021