Corporate Law Concentration

Cincinnati Law’s corporate law curriculum integrates core and advanced classes with practical skills courses that allow students to hone the skills necessary to deliver legal solutions to corporate clients. Through our Corporate Law Concentration, students will complete a minimum of 24 credits, including two required doctrinal courses for 3 credits each, one skills-based course for 2-3 credits, one experiential course for 3–4 credits, and a combination of eligible elective courses offered by the College of Law.

• Business Associations (3 Credits)
• Federal Income Tax (3 Credits)

• Advanced Legal Research: Transactional Law Research (2 Credits)
• Negotiations (3 Credits)
• Interoduction to Commercial Arbitration (2 Credits)

Practical exposure to the corporate legal setting is equally as important as the work you'll do in class. This is why you are required to take an experiential-based course. Students can fulfill this requirement by taking either a corporate law clinic or a corporate law externship that is offered by the College of Law from time to time. The following is a list of experiential courses that are offered now or in the near future: 

• Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic "ECDC" (4 credits)
• Summer ECDC (1 Credit)
• Patent and Trademark Clinc (4 Credits)

• Medpace
• UC Health
• The Kroger Company – Ethics & Compliance
• Fifth Third Bancorp – Legal Department
• FC Cincinnati
• EssilorLuxottica
• Tire Discounters – General Counsel’s Office
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital
• Hayes Law and Compliance
• City of Cincinnati General Counsel's Office
• City of Hamilton
• Transactional practices in large, medium and small law firms
• Prysmian
• Non-Profit Externships

In addition to the required doctrinal, skills-based, and experiential courses, students may take any combination of the elective courses offered by the College of Law toward the completion of the Certificate, subject to availability at the time of the students’ enrollment and any prerequisite requirements. The following courses are currently eligible elective courses, but the list is subject to change by the College of Law from time to time. Note that some of these courses will have their own prerequisites.

• Antitrust (2 Credits)
• Bankruptcy (3 Credits)
• Business Basics (2 Credits)
• Business Tax (3 Credits)
• Copyright Law (3 Credits)
• Corporate Finance (2 Credits)
• Corporate Transactions – Deal Sheet to Close (3 Credits)
• Corporations II (2 Credits)
• Employment-Based Immigration Law (2 Credits)
• Employment Law (2 Credits)
• Food, Drug and Device Law (2 Credits)
• Government and Internal Investigations 
• Government Contracts (2 Credits)
• Health Law (3 Credits)
• In-House Counsel: Introduction to the Role of In-House Counsel in Modern Organizations 
• International Business Transactions (3 Credits)
• International Commercial Arbitration (2 Credits)
• International Intellectual Property Law (3 Credits)
• International Tax (2 Credits)
• International Trade Law 
• Introduction to Intellectual Property (3 Credits)
• Land Use Law and Development 
• Mergers and Acquisitions 
• Negotiations (3 Credits)
• Patent Law (3 Credits)
• Patent Office Practice and Procedure 
• Patents and Intellectual Property – Business Applications 
• Real Estate Transactions (3 Credits)
• Sales (3 Credits)
• Secured Transactions (3 Credits)
• Securities Regulation (2 Credits)
• Trademarks and Unfair Competition (3 Credits)
• White Collar Crime 

Upon completion of the Concentration, students should be able to:

• Compare and contrast the rights and obligations of agents, principals, creditors, and other parties in various enterprise contexts, and identify the enforcement mechanisms and dispute resolution systems for those rights and obligations
• Provide advice on the benefits and pitfalls of different forms of enterprise organizations for various constituencies
• Recall the basic mechanisms of corporate governance and anticipate the situations and extraordinary transactions that render these mechanisms deficient
• Broadly identify the pertinent international, federal, state, and local regulations that affect business transactions
• Draft and edit core contractual provisions governing the substance, waiver, and enforcement of core rights and duties
• Navigate the negotiation and settlement of business transactions by accounting for the governing laws and the range of human incentives
• Communicate how the law applies in important business situations in a form that conforms to basic professional conventions

For further details about the concentration, please contact Director of the Corporate Law Center Neil Taylor.