Tracks & CLE

Curated course lists for self-paced learning. You can earn certificates of completion and share them on LinkedIn, and many tracks offer CLE credit.

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  1. Law Students: Overview of Legal Practice

    Designed for law students to provide insight into several major legal practice areas of interest in private practice.

    • 8 courses

  2. Loan Transaction Process

    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.

    • CLE Available
    • 6 courses

  3. Loan Types and Features

    Lawyers will learn about the main types of loans, including term loans, revolvers, secured and unsecured loans, and bilateral and syndicated loans. The program also reviews key features commonly found in commercial loans, such as repayment provisions, guaranties, and covenants and events of default.

    • CLE Available
    • 4 courses

  4. Materiality Scrapes and Sandbagging

    This program teaches lawyers about various aspects of two advanced M&A concepts found in acquisition agreements – materiality scrapes and sandbagging. It covers drafting and negotiating tips, buyer and seller perspectives, and market trend information from the ABA M&A Committee’s 2020-21 Private Target Deal Points Study.

    • CLE Available
    • 8 courses

  5. Motion Practice: Briefing Strategies

    Strategies for planning and drafting briefs throughout a litigation, including opposition, reply, summary judgment, and appellate briefs.

    • CLE Available
    • 4 courses

  6. Motion Practice: Drafting Your Brief

    How to draft key sections of your brief persuasively, structure and present arguments and facts clearly, and prepare supporting motion documents.

    • CLE Available
    • 4 courses

  7. Motion Practice: Oral Argument and Persuasion

    How to nail your oral argument, both in person and virtually; how to draft your brief persuasively; and how to make sure everything in your brief is cited properly.

    • CLE Available
    • 4 courses

  8. Motion Practice: Specific Types of Motions

    Drafting tips and strategic considerations for specific key motions, including motions to dismiss, preliminary injunctions and TROs, discovery motions, and motions for leave to amend.

    • CLE Available
    • 4 courses

  9. Raising Venture Capital and Working with VCs

    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.

    • CLE Available
    • 4 courses

  10. Securities Offerings: Deal Documents and Due Diligence

    An introduction to the main deal documents in a securities offering and the role, scope and process of conducting due diligence for various types of securities offerings.

    • CLE Available
    • 7 courses

  11. Summer Associates: Corporate

    Introduces summer associates to corporate practice, with a focus on M&A, securities, and commercial lending work.

    • 8 courses

  12. Summer Associates: Litigation

    Introduces summer associates to civil litigation practice, including discovery, privilege, doc review, depositions, and motion practice.

    • 8 courses

  13. Taking a Corporate Deposition

    Key strategies, rules, and procedures for taking a corporate deposition, including guidance on drafting the corporate deposition notice, deposition prep, conducting the deposition, and common mistakes to avoid.

    • CLE Available
    • 6 courses

  14. Taking a Deposition

    The basics of taking a deposition. This track includes how to notice or subpoena a deposition, draft a deposition outline, and select documents to use in the deposition; plus effective questioning techniques and strategies for dealing with a difficult witness or opposing counsel.

    • CLE Available
    • 5 courses

  15. Trial Essentials

    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.

    • CLE Available
    • 6 courses

  16. Trial Planning

    An advanced look at trial practice. Includes how to create and use a master trial plan, run a trial team, set yourself up well for an appeal, and make sure your witnesses are ready.

    • CLE Available
    • 5 courses

  17. Types of Securities and Offerings

    An introduction to different types of securities and securities offerings, including an overview of the IPO process, greenshoe options, follow-on offerings, and shelf registrations and takedowns.

    • CLE Available
    • 6 courses

  18. Venture Deals: Due Diligence, Term Sheets, Cap Tables, and Venture Math

    Covers due diligence for venture finance deals and the main economic and control rights negotiated in venture finance term sheets, plus how to make key calculations such as cap tables, pro forma cap tables, prices per share, pro rata rights, note conversions, dividends, and liquidation preferences.

    • CLE Available
    • 8 courses

  19. Working with Experts

    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.

    • CLE Available
    • 6 courses

  20. Business Acumen Sampler

    Provides a representative sample of the business acumen content Hotshot offers. This track includes courses drawn from the Accounting & Finance and Excel & Data Analysis topics.

    • 12 courses

  21. Sample: Advanced Litigation

    A sample track for mid-level and senior litigation associates.

    • 7 courses

  22. Summer Associates: Corporate & Litigation

    • 10 courses

  23. First-Year Associates: Corporate

    The basics of M&A and securities offerings. Introduces associates to deal structures, diligence, closings, registered and unregistered offerings, finance concepts, and other important aspects of corporate practice.

    • 6 courses

  24. First-Year Associates: Corporate (v2)

    Introduces associates to key areas of corporate practice, including venture financing, M&A deal structures, securities offerings, commercial loans, and financial statements.

    • 12 courses

  25. First-Year Associates: Capital Markets

    A selection of courses on capital markets and securities practice for first-year associates.

    • 9 courses