Contract Drafting for Startups and New Ventures

The fundamentals of contract drafting applied to the context of fast growth technology startups and other new business ventures. Students will be introduced to multiple concepts including: interviewing clients, avoiding ambiguity, considering legal consequences, understanding core contract concepts, and reviewing and revising based on negotiations. This course will require students to produce successive drafts of documents that incorporate feedback from the professor. Students who have taken JURI 5850, Document Drafting: Contracts, are not eligible to take this class.