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A Paralegal's Guide to Drafting Business Contracts

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Draft and manage business entity documents and corporate contracts with confidence as a transactional paralegal. This course prepares paralegals to support business formation and transactional work from entity selection through ongoing corporate maintenance. You'll walk through forming LLCs, partnerships, and corporations, learn the filing tips and traps that derail new entities, and study the drafting mistakes transactional paralegals most often make. Working from real samples, you'll practice preparing corporate contracts, handling ongoing corporate matters, and managing documents and forms efficiently — all within the ethical boundaries that govern corporate paralegal work.

Syllabus

  • Module 1 - A Paralegal's Guide to Drafting Business Contracts, Organizational Documents and More
    • Covers business entity formation — how to form LLCs and partnerships and how to form corporations, and the documents each requires.
  • Module 2 - A Paralegal's Guide to Drafting Business Contracts, Organizational Documents and More
    • Learn the formation and filing tips and traps that trip up new entities, and the top drafting mistakes transactional paralegals should avoid.
  • Module 3 - A Paralegal's Guide to Drafting Business Contracts, Organizational Documents and More
    • Handle ongoing corporate matters and prepare corporate contracts using annotated samples.
  • Module 4 - A Paralegal's Guide to Drafting Business Contracts, Organizational Documents and More
    • Master document and form management techniques and apply the ethics rules specific to corporate paralegals.

Taught by

NBI - National Business Institute

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