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A look at how to supervise the use of generative AI in legal practice. This course covers best practices for reviewing GenAI-assisted work, identifying common errors such as fabricated citations and incorrect facts, and supervising team members who use these tools. Includes guidance on data security, billing considerations, client expectations, and building sustainable AI supervision practices.

How to respond to a corporate deposition notice, including the different objections, coordinating a response with your client, and how to handle the meet-and-confer process with opposing counsel.

The four stages of a corporation’s life cycle: startup, growth, maturity, and decline. Includes a discussion of the biggest governance issues faced by corporations at each stage.

A summary of the most common types of securities bought and sold in the financial markets, including debt, equity and hybrid securities.

An introduction to disclosure schedules updates provisions, including why parties include a right or obligation to update disclosure schedules, the scope of permitted updates, and the updates effect on other rights and obligations of the parties under the acquisition agreement. Features interviews with ABA M&A Committee members John F. Clifford from McMillan LLP and Ann Beth Stebbins from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

An overview of how warranties & indemnities work and as well as various methods of limiting liability, such as caps, de minimis thresholds, and baskets. The course also provides a brief introduction to W&I insurance.

This program covers the structure of private equity funds, key deal types, how PE firms approach transactions, and the differences between strategic M&A and Private Equity M&A.

How and why emerging companies raise venture capital. This track covers the main VC funding stages, documents associated with each stage, the structure and role of VC firms, and their relationships with clients.

Explains the main documents and key provisions in M&A deals, and provides an overview of the M&A deal process from start to finish. This track also explains the structures of M&A deals including asset and stock sales, direct mergers, and forward and reverse triangular mergers.

This track takes a look at the typical loan transaction process. This includes an overview of what it means to be a lending attorney, how a commercial lending deal team is typically structured, the main stages of a typical transaction, the due diligence process, the attachment and perfection process for security interests, the use of financing statements under the UCC, and the closing of the loan transaction.

Tips and strategies for working effectively with experts on your case. Covers how to prepare for direct of your expert, prepare your expert for cross, and conduct cross examination of the other side’s expert. Gives tips for maximizing your expert’s performance and steering clear of mistakes. Also discusses tricky ethical areas like privilege over communications and draft reports, as well as how to choose the right expert in the first place.

Mastering the essentials of trial practice: opening statements, closing arguments, directs and cross-exams. Also covers courtroom decorum and ethical issues that arise during a trial.