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Developing Professional Skills Business Associations

2nd Edition
Robert J. Rhee
ISBN: 9781683280439
Subject: Business Organizations
Format: Print - Softbound
Page Count: 120
Copyright: 2018 | Status: In Stock
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Incorporating skills training into a traditional Business Associations course is challenging. This creative and original book provides thirteen independent exercises designed to develop student skills in legal drafting, client interviewing and counseling, negotiation, and advocacy. Each exercise is based on fundamental legal rules and doctrines so that the book can be used on its own or as a supplemental text with any doctrinal casebook. Students are required to spend a manageable one to two hours on such tasks as outlining discussion points for major meetings and counseling, drafting advisory letters to clients, crafting a demand letter to a board of directors, negotiating indemnification provisions, drafting a certificate of incorporation and an operating agreement based on the clients’ stated objectives, and developing strategies to manage business contracting and corporate client communications. Each exercise contains a work product template that the student must complete for assessment purposes. A comprehensive Teacher’s Manual provides guidance and suggestions for expanding the classroom discussion to include ethical issues, professional responsibility concepts, and the norms of modern legal practice. PowerPoint slides with images taken from the book are also available to adopters for use in describing the exercises to a class.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Developing Professional Skill
Publication Date: 02/07/2018
Related Subject(s): Business Planning, Professional Identity Formation

Robert J. Rhee, University of Florida College of Law

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New Features:

  • Addition of 3 new chapters, in addition to the 10 chapters in the 1st edition
  • New chapters cover topics not introduced in the 1st edition:
    • Agency law
    • Contracting for fiduciary duty in an operating agreement, which one of the most important issues in LLCs
    • Financing the enterprise
  • Revision to chapter on incorporation to include coverage of dual class stocks
  • Reordering and renumbering of all chapters to fit the flow of lesson plans in the typical business association course.
  • Each chapter now keyed to the most recent editions of all major business association casebooks by West and Aspen (13 total casebooks)
  • Updated teacher manual

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