The Transactional Law Practice Pathway is designed as a guided curriculum that will prepare you for a career as a general transactional law practitioner. Transactional law attorneys facilitate dealings between individuals and businesses in a broad array of contexts. These may include individual based transactions like adoption, residential closings and basic family planning, as well as corporate and commercial transactions, like business formation and purchase and sale agreements. In addition to your core legal analysis, research and writing skills, you should develop strong interviewing, drafting, negotiating and counseling skills and a basic knowledge about business and taxes.
Faculty Advisors
Professor Debra Cohen
Curriculum
Stage 1: Foundational Courses
- Administrative Law CORE
- Business Organizations I (Agency & Partnerships) CORE
- Business Organizations II (Corporations) CORE
- Contracts I and II REQ.
- Family Law CORE
- Federal Taxation (Tax I) CORE
- Property I and II REQ.
- Remedies CORE
- Uniform Commercial Code I CORE
- Wills and Estates CORE
Stage 2: Electives
Stage 3: Experiential Opportunities
REQ. = Required course for all students | CORE = At least 3 core courses are required
RALWR = An opportunity to complete the Research Paper requirement | CR = An opportunity to complete the Clinic requirement
Community Service/Summer Fellowships/Externships
UDC Law has extensive connections with non-profit organizations and governmental agencies in the DC metropolitan region that provide students with the opportunity to spend a semester actually working in their chosen fields. The following are some examples of relevant placements students have obtained with outside organizations and agencies:
- AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- DC Bar Pro Bono Center
- DC Chamber of Commerce
- DC Council, Committee on Business and Economic Development
- DC Department of Employment Services
- DC Department of Housing and Community Development
- DC Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking
- DC Office of Administrative Hearings
- DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment
- DC Office of Planning
- DC Office of Tax and Revenue
- DC Office of the Attorney General, Commercial Division
- DC Office of the People’s Counsel
- DC Public Service Commission, Office of the General Counsel
- DC Superior Court Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division
- Legal Aid Justice Center
- Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
- Manna, Inc.
- Maryland District Court
- National Community Reinvestment Coalition
- Neighborhood Legal Services Program
- Pension Rights Center
- Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities
- Tzedek DC
- UDC Office of the General Counsel
- US Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Hearings and Appeals
- US Department of Labor
- US Department of Transportation
- US Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- US Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection
- US Green Building Council
- US Securities and Exchange Commission
- US Tax Court
- Virginia Legal Aid Society
- Virginia Office of the Attorney General, Civil Litigation Division
- Whitman-Walker Health Legal Services Program
- World Bank
