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Okamoto on Transactional Lawyering

By Lawrence Solum

Karl S. Okamoto (Drexel University - Earle Mack School of Law) has posted Teaching Transactional Lawyering on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Law schools are giving more and more attention to transactional lawyering. Once relegated to a single course on "business planning," law school curriculums at every level of law school are being pushed to include a new focus on teaching future practitioners how to do deals. In doing so, law schools are discovering that the skills required to be a proficient transactional lawyer are often different from those needed by litigators or judges. Therefore the curriculum that teaches students how to "think like a lawyer" falls short when the goal becomes to teach them to "think like a deal lawyer." This article describes a novel transactional lawyering course designed to serve as the "keystone" course in a transactional lawyering curriculum.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).