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Class times for Spring, 2009 have not been released yet.250.8 sec. 1 - Lawyers and Entrepreneurship (Spring 2009)
Instructor: Robert J. Majteles (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 2
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Course Control Number (1Ls): 49795 (section 2)
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49793
Lawyers can become great entrepreneurs. Even a cursory look across the entrepreneurial landscape reveals lawyers leading many great companies, from start-up to established enterprises, and leading many great and dynamic investment firms with all manner of strategies. Still, too many business attorneys don’t grasp what it truly means to add value, and too few law students set about to purposefully use their legal education to help them become great entrepreneurs.
Learning, as lawyers do, how to locate, define and champion clarity out of confusing and conflicting fact patterns is wonderful training for any entrepreneur. In addition, lawyers and entrepreneurs both benefit greatly from learning how to balance the demands of being a great, subjective, advocate while at the same time being disciplined by the objective facts.
This course will focus on business plans and investment screens as a way to provide students with a deep understanding of the building blocks of any entrepreneurial endeavor – whether it is from the operating or the investing side of business life. This class will depend upon rigorous and dynamic student classroom participation and will utilize readings, case-studies and guest speakers to help students learn to develop, critique, and utilize business plans and investment screens. In addition, the guest speakers – all current or former lawyers, some practicing law and some active as investors or operating managers, will share their views of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship and the ways in which their legal backgrounds contributed to their own professional successes
Exam Notes: P+
Course Category: Business Law
Course Subcategories:
Law and Economics
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