• LAW 833: Representing Enterprises

  3.00 - 5.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Capstone course for concentration in business transactions. Simulated business transactions and completion of major planning drafting project. Transactions vary: formation of new business, acquisition of existing business, development of real estate project, various financing transactions and corporate reorganization.Repeatability: Not repeatable. May be taken once for 3-5 hours.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 818, 826, 827, 840, 842, 940, and 972.Recommended Background: Completion of all courses for concentration in business transactions.Comment(s): Up to two of the prerequisites may be taken as corequisites.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 834: Antitrust

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Federal antitrust laws; monopolization, price-fixing, group boycotts, and anticompetitive practices generally; government enforcement techniques and private treble damage suits.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 836: Advanced Wills and Trusts

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  A detailed study of the non-tax aspects of estate planning and gratuitous transmission of wealth from a counseling and drafting perspective. Topics to be covered include: drafting multi-generational trusts including discretionary distributions and future interests; powers of appointment; powers of attorney; charitable gifts; and fiduciary duties. Students will complete two substantial planning and drafting projects requiring them to design an estate plan for a hypothetical client, draft all of the necessary implementing documents, and explain the plan and the documents in writing to the client. (DE) Prerequisite: 935.Comment: Limited Enrollment.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 837: Consumer Bankrptcy/Fin Seminar

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Covers Title 11, Chapters 7, 12, and 13 and cross-disciplinary materials from economics, sociology, psychology, and similar fields regarding the role of personal finance, consumer finance, and consumer bankruptcy. Satisfies the perspective requirement.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 839: Payment Systems

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Basic coverage of different payment systems, including money, credit and debit cards, and negotiable instruments (such as checks and promissory notes under Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code).Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 841: Secured Transactions

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Coverage of Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 and relevant Bankruptcy Code provisions dealing with security interests in personal property.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 842: Contract Drafting

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Practical fundamentals of drafting contracts of different types. Integrates doctrinal contract law with theory, skills, and ethics; provides multiple opportunities for performance through drafting and other assignments, as well as opportunities for self-evaluation through exercises based upon different factual scenarios that simulate the experience of a lawyer representing a client in a transactional setting; and involves direct supervision of the student’s performance by the instructor as well as a classroom instructional component.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 843: Bankruptcy

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Basic elements of federal bankruptcy law providing relief for insolvent debtors and their creditors through liquidation of debtor assets or reorganization of the debtor. The course may include the following: The effect of bankruptcy law on business transactions and commercial and tort litigation, as well as family law and environmental law matters, a review of state creditor collection law, analysis of claims of creditors (e.g., lenders, tort victims, providers of goods or services), property of the estate used to pay claims, the automatic stay of creditor actions, the bankruptcy trustee’s powers to avoid pre-bankruptcy transfers, and other basic bankruptcy rules. No prerequisites.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 844: Busin Reorganizations/Workouts

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  An examination of reorganization under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code from petition date to confirmation of a plan of reorganization as well as coverage of the use of extensions, compositions, workouts and other non-bankruptcy methods of adjusting the rights or parties to business transactions. Although not required as prerequisites, an understanding of the subject matter of Commercial Law and especially Debtor/Creditor law is strongly recommended. The course satisfies the expository writing requirement.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 845: Commercial Leasing

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Commercial leasing seminar involves a detailed examination of the substantive and procedural law applicable to commercial leasing, in a practical, practice-oriented course that will include up to six graded, written assignments, of involving hands-on negotiation and documentation of a commercial lease of office space. Other written assignments may include negotiation and drafting of a letter of intent, an expansion rights provision, an extension of term provision, an accounting right for rent provision, a lease review letter, and an industrial tenancy agreement or rider to a commercial lease. Will require close reading and critical analysis of lease provisions, including examining and becoming intimately familiar with the terms of art involved, the motivations of the various parties to the leases involved, and the substantive law that governs their relationship. Grades will be based upon the written work product turned in over the course of the semester with class participation component. (DE)Prerequisite: 842.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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