LAW COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

LAW-2253 Law Practice Planning: Law as a Career and an

Enterprise (Seminar)

Prof. Lisle Baker,

2 credits day; 2 credits evening.

Many students are unclear about what role in the legal profession they would like to undertake

upon graduation. This course is designed to help them conduct research about both themselves

and the legal profession to gain greater clarity about what law practice role might work best for

them. More particularly, the course is designed to help them clarify their interests, skills and

values to develop criteria for evaluating their professional opportunities. The students then use

those criteria to help them find a good fit in the legal profession by conducting both library and

online research on law practice, as well as personal interviews of attorneys in their chosen fields,

making an interim presentation of the preliminary results. The students then build on that

foundation to evaluate the feasibility of their preferred roles, including preparing a pro-forma

cash flow analysis as well as examining some of the non-financial issues involved in conducting

a successful law practice. The students also undertake further research on how they might make

their most preferred role a reality, including planning next steps to undertake while in law school

or after graduation. The course concludes with an oral presentation by the students of their

resulting Law Practice Plans to a practicing attorney who has started his own law firm, followed

by submission of a more formal written Plan incorporating the results of their research and

analysis, including an extensive appendix of the evidence relied upon for their conclusions. For

further information, please contact Professor Baker at

or 617-573-8186.

Enrollment is limited: 18

Elective Course

Meets Skills Menu Requirement

Meets Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration Requirements

Enrollment is limited: 18

Elective Course

Meets Skills Menu Requirement

Meets Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration Requirements

<<Course Updated: March 25, 2016>>