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Business Law

LAW-40080

This course provides legal professionals with an overview of important legal issues related to formation of business entities. Topics include sole proprietorships, partnerships (general, limited, and professional), corporations, and limited liability companies. Students will learn how to prepare documents and practical guidelines for the formation and maintenance of these business entities. Students will be able to analyze the various business entities to determine which business entity may be best for a particular situation.

Course Format

This is an entirely online asynchronous web-based course that is to be completed between the published course start and end dates. Although there are no required course meetings to attend, this course does have specific assignment due dates and deadlines.
UCSD Extended Studies operates in Pacific Standard Time and therefore all course deadlines are held to Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Course Information

2.00 units
TBD

Course sessions

Please contact the Business, Professional & Legal Programs department at or unexlaw@ucsd.edu for information about this course and upcoming sections.