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Originally posted by sgtclub
Please. We business lawyers view non business lawyers in the same way that you (and I) view arts majors.* Business lawyers need to know all the non-business areas, plus finance, accounting, and substantive business law, as well as have a general business sense because we are often called upon to give business advice in addition to legal advice. I could practice most non-business areas of law in my sleep.
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I am not saying that business lawyers don't need to know the law. And certain areas of business law, like anti-trust, are more conceptually difficult to master than say torts or real property.
I just think from an educational perspective (not about practicing law once you finish), classes like con law and even torts are more cerebral when you are taught not just the law, but the history of the law, the policy considerations, whether this system is better than other systems, should it be changed, etc. In my experience, the business association classes and UCC classes were more focused on teaching you how to practice the law, which is a more vocational and less intellectual bent.
I am not sure how you define non-business law. Do you include intellectual property as business or non-business law?
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Originally posted by sgtclub
*I was pre-med until it interferred to much with my partying. Was forced to switch to arts degree to save my GPA. It was a complete joke compared to the hard sciences.
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I know many people who dropped out of a science curriculum and got much better grades when they did. I have never once seen it happen the other way around. I am sure that when BRC dropped physics her GPA went up.
