The Law Simulation Series: Business Organizations (Instant Digital Access Code Only)

Edition : 2013

The Law Simulation Series: Business Organizations (Instant Digital Access Code Only)
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The Law Simulation Series: Business Organizations is part of a series of simulated, experiential learning environments designed to provide students with an interactive law office environment suitable for the development and refinement of competencies needed for the real-world legal workplace.

Working as an intern at the Anytown law firm of Murphy, Miller & Dorn the student will be introduced to the many different ways in which businesses can be organized and how the law office provides guidance and support to business clients. Assigned work is part of a supplied Task List that is designed to first indoctrinate and then challenge the student. The simulation provides a realistic environment in which the student may learn how a law office deals with a variety of ethical and substantive legal issues.

The instructor may follow the Task List directly, which will simulate approximately 15-20 hours of work, or customize the assignments by selecting only those client files and/or tasks that relate to the course material. The instructor may also supplement the work by uploading additional tasks, sample forms, and documents.

During his days at the office, the student will encounter avatars of a law partner, paralegal and an administrative assistant who will guide the student’s work. Through audio and video files the student will sit in on meetings and learn directly from other law office personnel how to research and analyze issues relating to the regulation of business. Audio and video files will be available to the student for replay in order to reinforce lessons. In addition, the student will also have access to the firm’s policies and procedures manual and an extensive form bank of the law office’s administrative forms and sample documents.

In order to monitor the student’s work product and provide learning and feedback, conferences with the instructor (referred to in the simulation as the “Supervising Attorney”) are included in the task timeline. The flexibility and multiple uses of the simulation allow for those conference times to be one-on-one, by email, or during class time as an entire class works within the law office environment. An instructor resource center includes rubric/grading guides, links to additional teaching resources and supplemental assignments and projects that can be used to customize the student’s daily assignments.

Among the skills The Law Simulation Series: Business Organizations will develop and refine are:

Understanding the role of the paralegal in the delivery of legal services for a business client
Ability to identify and understand characteristics of the various types of business organizations
Understanding why particular business forms may be advantageous in certain circumstances
Assisting an attorney in drafting the basic legal documents required during the formation, operation, maintenance, and dissolution of the various types of business organizations
Understanding of the different types of documents and types of planning inherent in business law
Understanding of the ethical responsibilities applicable to the practice of business law
Ability to perform legal research relevant to business law
Ability to draft legal documents relating to business law
Ability to perform critical analysis of client legal issues
Ability to practice effective time management