CONTRACT DRAFTING AND NEGOTIATION FOR IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
(LAWJ-4265) - 1 UNIT

This experiential course prepares students to operate effectively as in-house counsel across a range of commercial businesses. Emphasizing the distinct responsibilities of corporate legal departments, the course builds foundational competencies in drafting and negotiating services agreements and similar commercial contracts, with attention to business alignment, cross-functional collaboration, and risk management.

Through lectures, in-class drafting exercises, and visits from guest speakers, students will analyze and draft the principal components of commercial agreements-including confidentiality, intellectual property ownership and licensing, termination rights and remedies, representations and warranties, and indemnification-and develop negotiation strategies that employ issue prioritization, fallback positions, and business-oriented tradeoffs.

Pass/Fail:
Yes

Prerequisites:
Business Associations (LAWA-4003)  (can be taken concurrently)