With Texas Law’s extensive course catalog, students may find it challenging to identify the best courses for their career goals. The LAB curriculum is designed to provide students interested in transactional law or business with a strong foundation and a structured framework to enhance their knowledge and skills in this area of legal practice.
(View this curricular guide as a PDF.)
Total Credit Requirement: 24 Hours
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- Business Associations or Business Associations (Enriched)
- Secured Credit (with or without Secured Credit Workshop)
- Plus one of the following:
- Securities Regulation
- Federal Income Tax
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- Clinic: Entrepreneurship/Community Development
- Commercial Leasing
- Energy Ventures Practicum+
- Financial Methods for Lawyers
- Legal Research, Advanced (AI and Conventional): Corporations/Securities
- Legal Writing, Advanced: Transactional Drafting
- Negotiations: Transactions
- Texas Venture Labs Practicum+
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- Alternative Assets: Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds
- Bankruptcy
- Corporate Finance
- Credit Agreements
- Financial Products: Personal and Regulatory Strategies
- IPOs: From Organizational Meeting to Opening Bell
- Law and Economics of Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation
- M&A
- Private Equity and Venture Capital Fund Formation
- Technology Transactions
- Transactions
- Venture Capital
- Venture Transactions
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(Count towards 24 Hour Total Credit Requirement)
- Antitrust
- Banking Regulation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Beyond the Billable Hour: Board Service and Business Development
- Corporate Governance+
- Corporate Tax
- Exploring In-House Practice
- Global Energy Transactions: Legal, Financial, and Scientific+
- International Petroleum Transactions
- International Tax
- Law of Commercial Real Estate Finance and Development+
- New Venture Creation+
- Oil and Gas
- Oil and Gas Tax
- Partnership Tax
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Transactions
- Sel. Issues Complex Commercial Transactions (O&G Asset Sale)
- SMNR: Business Law Workshop
- SMNR: International Petroleum Transactions
- SMNR: Modern Corporate Governance and Finance
- SMNR: Regulation of Financial Markets
- SMNR: SEC Enforcement Practice
- SMNR: Business Scandal and Crisis Management: Case Studies in Compliance
- Special Topics in In-House Practice
- Tax Factors for Financial Planning+
Note: Not all courses are offered in all years
*May take more than stated requirement
+Cross-listed course