Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship

Course Code

BL 504

Hours

2.25 hours

Type

Elective

Offered

Prerequisites

Graduate Standing excluding Law programs (JD, MACL, LLM, or SJD)

Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship --- Law provides entrepreneurs with many opportunities for competitive advantage. This course offers an examination of legal issues that every entrepreneur should understand, from start-up to IPO, in order to make good business decisions. These issues include: -Leaving your current employer to start a business -Forms of business organizations and ownership structure -Funding the venture -Entering contracts -Product liability to product innovation -Hiring and retaining the best staff -Protecting your intellectual property -Going public

BL 504 fulfills the MBA Law/Ethics Requirement. Prior to the Fall 2014 term, this course was called LHC/ES 504.

Cindy Schipani

Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration

Professor of Business Law

Cindy A. Schipani is the Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Business Law at the University of...