General Course Descriptions for Terms: contract drafting
808 - Adv Legal Writing: Contract Drafting
Hit the ground running in transactional law by learning the practical skill of transactional drafting. This class is a highly interactive, experiential course designed to hone the real-world skills you'll need as a practicing attorney. Most attorneys work with contracts at some point in their career and understanding how contracts are negotiated and drafted is a critical skill for both transactional attorneys and commercial litigators. Learn to address and resolve challenges in business transactions by drafting precise and clear contractual provisions. Get your hands dirty with contract drafting problems and in-class negotiation practice. You'll also learn to recognize and understand common contractual provisions, structure an effective agreement, detect potential landmines, and gain an appreciation for the functions and nuances of contract language. In most classes, we’ll review student-written contracts, learn drafting guidelines for contract provisions, then do an in-class negotiation. By the end of the semester, you will have drafted two contracts, redlined two contracts, and commented on four contracts. You will also get extensive feedback from classmates and the professor.
940 - Construction Law, Contracting, and Negotiation
This course, generally offered in the spring every other year, will study a broad array of legal and practical issues encountered with interdependent transactions focused on, but not limited to, the construction industry, including contracting and dispute resolution strategies and tactics, with in-class drafting exercises addressing key provisions of such process-oriented transactions. The course will also examine the use of artificial intelligence in contract drafting and review and in arbitration and litigation of construction disputes. Course materials will include an extensive, easy-to-read ABA textbook, a comprehensive set of PowerPoint slides, and various other supplemental items. A former student evaluation characterized the course as being "taught...in a way to make it applicable to all fields of law, not just construction."