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  1. Materiality Scrapes and Sandbagging (2023)

    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 2022-23 Private Target Deal Points Study.

    • CLE Available
    • 8 courses

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Summer Associates: Corporate

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

    • 8 courses

  9. Summer Associates: Litigation

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

    • 8 courses

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Sample: Advanced Litigation

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

    • 7 courses

  18. Summer Associates: Corporate & Litigation

    • 10 courses

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. First-Year Associates: Capital Markets

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

    • 9 courses

  22. First-Year Associates: Finance

    A selection of courses on commercial lending and financial concepts relevant in finance practice for first-year associates.

    • 10 courses

  23. First-Year Associates: Litigation

    A selection of courses on litigation practice for first-year associates.

    • 11 courses

  24. First-Year Associates: M&A

    The basics of M&A for junior associates. Covers deal structures, due diligence, and closings for M&A deals, and provides an overview of key financial concepts related to M&A.

    • 9 courses

  25. 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