Kimm Walton is the author of "Guerilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams," and a PAD alumna.
Following are her thoughts on the merits of taking business law courses.
Law is a business and so there’s some merit to taking courses about it. However I’d say it’s only really necessary if you intend to either 1) go into an alternative career with a business-angle, for instance being an administrator like a marketing person at a large law firm; 2) go into a very small practice or hang out your own shingle, where business courses would be absolutely mandatory.
Having said that, bar associations offer excellent seminars about the business aspects of law, and you can always take those, even after your graduate. They offer conferences and CLEs about it as well, so there’s that option. So you’re not really out of luck if you go through law school without taking business courses in place of law subjects.
Following are her thoughts on the merits of taking business law courses.
Law is a business and so there’s some merit to taking courses about it. However I’d say it’s only really necessary if you intend to either 1) go into an alternative career with a business-angle, for instance being an administrator like a marketing person at a large law firm; 2) go into a very small practice or hang out your own shingle, where business courses would be absolutely mandatory.
Having said that, bar associations offer excellent seminars about the business aspects of law, and you can always take those, even after your graduate. They offer conferences and CLEs about it as well, so there’s that option. So you’re not really out of luck if you go through law school without taking business courses in place of law subjects.