This course is designed to help students develop practical skills in drafting legal documents. The focus will be on form and substance of formal agreements supporting corporate and commercial transactions as well as certain dispute resolution scenarios. Students review, analyze, prepare, present, and discuss various legal documents in corporate/commercial law and other substantive law areas. Students will work on selecting and adapting document precedents. The work will include class discussions and take-home assignments.The learning activities will include working with document precedents, reviewing, drafting, revising, and discussing various legal documents.The evaluation framework will include in-class exercises and take-home assignments
After completing this course, the successful student should be able to:
source a proper document precedent using Practical Law and O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms
draft a clear and effective legal document
avoid common problems in drafting contractual terms (ambiguity, vagueness, etc.)
Method of Evaluation: Class Participation: 40%; two take home assignments: each worth 30%