Bus Law-Entrepreneurial Firms

Catalog description

This course surveys and analyzes the legal issues faced by new entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms. The course covers issues facing the entrepreneur including: leaving your current employer, structuring the ownership of the new company, and obtaining appropriate legal, accounting and insurance advice. A number of issues facing entrepreneurial firms are covered, including: liabilities and insurance, raising capital, contracts and leases, licensing, intellectual property, human resource matters, e-commerce and the sale of goods and services, outsourcing, global entrepreneurship, changing between private and public ownership, and other relevant topics.