LAW813

Letter Grading

NON-GPA COURSES

Business Associations and Financial Basics for Lawyers are recommended pre-or co-requisites. LEGAL TECH: BUILDING A STARTUP focuses on teaching students the business principles that underlie the formation of a startup. Students will learn by doing: lean startup methods will be studied and then used to develop and build a legal tech startup. We will explore the economics of startups, the components of a business model canvas, the principles and implementation of design thinking, the options for generating revenue and attracting funding, the legal issues specific to legal tech startups, and the development of pitching skills. Communication skills are developed throughout the course by the presentations made by students each week on the application to their specific startup of the business principles assigned that week. Class attendance and participation is a very important component of this course. 50% of each student's grade will be based on class participation; 25% is based on team collaboration and use of project management tools; and 25% is based on the slide deck presentation in a pitch competition before investors and legal tech experts that is in lieu of a final exam