Law Practice Management (LAW-795LP-001)
Christopher Gowen, Michael Spekter
Meets: 06:00 PM - 07:50 PM (T) - Warren - Room N101
Enrolled: 21 / Limit: 30
Notices
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Description
Law Practice Management has been designed to assist you in developing the practical skills you will need to succeed in the practice of law, over and above knowledge of the substantive and procedural law. You will learn what you need to know to run a successful legal services business and a successful and profitable small law firm. The class is based on actual office procedures, relevant case law and practical experience, but it will be unlike any other course that you have taken in law school. We have designed the course to be instructive, thought provoking, entertaining, but above all with the goal of making you “practice ready” when you graduate and take the bar, including exposure to the latest in legal office technology. This law course was created for law school students who plan to enter private practice as a lawyer or firm manager. Some of you may be planning to just hang out a shingle and go it alone; others may be joining small firms already in existence where every lawyer is involved in firm management to a greater or lesser degree; others may be uncertain about career plans, but intend to learn about practice as an alternative that they may consider. This course has been designed to provide you with a perspective that you haven’t been exposed to in law school – that to successfully practice law and to be able to help those who need legal services, you first need to have the knowledge to run your office as a business so that you can thrive and grow in a competitive and continually evolving legal services market.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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First Class Readings
Your assignment for the first class is to read Chapter 1 of Susskind and Chapter 1 of Munneke
Syllabus
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