Commercial Transactional Law and Litigation

The course aims at providing students with the basic tools that are necessary to draft some of the recurring briefs and lawsuits found in the professional life of a lawyer, who intends to engage in the commercial law and corporate law practice.
During the course, students will be supervised while drafting briefs dealing with certain selected practical cases: for this reason, attendance is required and the number of admitted students will be limited.
It is also necessary to register in advance attendance to the class.
The course is structured in three sessions granting 2 formative credits (and 15 hours ) each, given in the first semester of the 4th year.
The first part of the course will address the drafting of one or more briefs or lawsuit that may be brought before a court in a commercial or company litigation; the second part of the course will regard the development of the main brief resulting from the introductory lawsuit on the same case; the third session will be about the drafting of by-laws clauses, shareholders' agreements, other contracts and/or an opinion on legal issues relating to commercial or corporate law.

1) Knowledge and understanding skills. The student must demonstrate that he has acquired a basic knowledge of the fundamental legal institutes of Civil Procedural Law, for the purpose of drafting the main acts of the case/trial, as well as the issues of commercial or corporate law that will be dealt with from time to time.
2) Application abilities. The student must demonstrate that he has acquired the appropriate analytical skills to select, interpret and apply the material of the course to concrete cases inspired by practical cases.
3) Autonomy of judgment. The student must demonstrate that he has acquired the ability to draw conclusions on the issues raised, on the basis of substantiated and legally sustainable analysis.
4) Communication skills. The student must demonstrate his / her familiarity of the acquired knowledge through coherent argumentation, systematic rigor and language skills. In addition, to be able to use appropriate technical vocabulary for the purposes of drafting the judicial and extrajudicial documents that are part of the course.
5) Ability to learn. The student must demonstrate that he has developed learning abilities in order to draw up the judicial and extrajudicial acts of the course with a high degree of autonomy.