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Contract Drafting

This experiential course introduces students to the principles, processes, and techniques for drafting business contracts. Students will learn how transactional lawyers translate a business deal into contract provisions. Students will draft commercial agreements with a focus on managing risk, minimizing ambiguity, drafting with clarity, using contemporary commercial drafting techniques, and solving problems through effective drafting. Students will also learn to read, review, and analyze contracts to identify and address both legal and business risk issues. The course is presented through a combination of lecture, drafting and editing assignments, and in-class exercises. Students draft contract provisions and contracts from scratch and precedent agreements, analyze term sheets, and review and revise contracts. Grades will be based upon drafting and editing assignments, participation in in-class exercises, and good faith completion of ungraded assignments. There is no final exam.

Semester

Multiple sections

Instructor(s)

Tina Boudreaux (Fall 2019); Lee Sher (Spring 2020)

Academic Area(s)

Corporate & Commercial Law

Seminars

Experiential Courses

—Simulations