Providing business law services to small company clients is similar to…but is not the same …as doing so for a medium sized or larger company. This CLE course is primarily directed to (a) beginning lawyers who plan to practice business law; (b) experienced lawyers who have switched, or plan to switch from other practice areas to business law and (c) in either case, to mostly represent “smaller” companies (e.g., typically less than $100M annual revenue; less than 500 employees).

The course will cover a very wide range of topics, including business entities, corporate governance, standardized agreement formats, ownership issues, intellectual property, employment law and many others. As a result, the course will not penetrate very deeply into any one topic, but hopefully will provide enough background and practical help to enable a practitioner to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to competently act in those practice areas.