Teaching Transactional Lawyering

Okamoto, Karl S.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1346429

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Teaching Transactional Lawyering

Karl S. Okamoto

Drexel University - Earle Mack School of Law

January 17, 2009

Drexel College of Law Research Paper No. 2009-W-02
NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #22

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.

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Keywords: Lawyering, Pedagogy, Skills Training, Law School Curriculum

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Date posted: February 19, 2009 ; Last revised: December 12, 2012

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Okamoto, Karl S., Teaching Transactional Lawyering (January 17, 2009). Drexel College of Law Research Paper No. 2009-W-02; NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #22. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1346429 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1346429

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