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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Corporations: Charters, Bylaws, and Key Players

    This program explains certificates of incorporation and corporate bylaws, discussing their respective roles in a company, how they can be amended, and other important aspects of these important corporate documents. The program also provides an overview of the key players in a corporation: its stockholders, the board of directors, and the main officers.

    • CLE Available
    • 5 courses

  12. Intro to Corporations

    An introduction to the corporate form, the four stages of a corporation’s life cycle—startup, growth, maturity, and decline—and key stages of corporation formation, including incorporation, organization, and capitalization, as well as the biggest governance issues faced by corporations at each stage and an overview of the role lawyers typically play at each stage.

    • CLE Available
    • 4 courses