Program Benefits
A continuing complaint of practicing lawyers hiring law school graduates, and of the graduates themselves once they have entered practice, is that law school does not prepare them for much of what they will face in practice. Law schools have largely ignored this deficiency, noting merely that they are not trade schools, and that students will learn the necessary skills once they enter practice. Emory takes a different view. We acknowledge the demands placed on practicing lawyers. We believe that an integral part of legal education is to aid students in understanding the role of the practicing attorney in dealing with clients’ problems outside the litigation setting. The goal of this program is to treat the practice of law as a serious academic and professional subject.
The specific goals of this program are to:
- Provide students with an understanding of economics, finance and business sufficient to allow them to understand their clients’ goals and needs during the course of representation in business transactions.
- Provide students with an understanding of the complexities of corporate finance and governance and how the increasingly complex regulatory environment impacts publicly traded companies, their managers and their directors.
- Provide students with an understanding of the role that lawyers play in assisting clients to attain their goals in business transactions.
- Provide students with the basic technical skills to be able to function at an effective level in transactions cutting across numerous fields.