Pathway: Transactional Law Practice

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

Professors Debra Cohen, Rafael Cox Alomar, Jerome Hughes, Masai McDougall, and Sakinah Tillman

Curriculum

Stage 1: Foundational Courses

  • Administrative Law
  • Business Organizations REQ.
  • Contracts I and II REQ.
  • Family Law
  • Property REQ.
  • Remedies
  • Taxation I
  • Uniform Commercial Code I
  • Wills and Estates

Stage 2: Electives

  • Advanced Legal Writing
  • Employment Discrimination Seminar
  • Entertainment Law Seminar
  • Gender & Sexual Orientation Under the Law Seminar
  • Negotiations
  • Non-Profit Law
  • Race and the Law Seminar
  • System Change: Theory & Practice

Stage 3: Experiential Opportunities

REQ. = Required course for all students | Course descriptions can be found in the Course Catalog

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: