Business Law for Entrepreneurs and Managers

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Thinking About The Law

Lecture 2: What Is The Law, Anyway?

Chapter 2: Who's Who in the Zoo – The Foundations of the US Legal System

Lecture 1: Foundations of U.S. Law

Lecture 2: The US Court System – An Intro

Lecture 3: Why Does Constitutional Law Matter?

Lecture 4: Key Cases

Lecture 5: Forty-Five Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Chapter 3: Call My Lawyer! Do I Need An Attorney? How Do I Know If They Are Any Good?

Lecture 1: When Do I Really Need A Lawyer?

Lecture 2: How To Hire A Lawyer

Lecture 3: Keep It Off The Floor – Business Ethics

Lecture 4: Creating Your Personal Code of Ethics

Chapter 4: Who Am I? What Am I? Why Am I Here? – Starting Your Business

Lecture 1: Your Very First Considerations In Starting Your Business

Lecture 2: Licensing and Registration

Lecture 3: What Should I Be? – Entity Selection Intro

Lecture 4: I'm So Alone! – The Sole Proprietorship

Lecture 5: And Then There Were Two (or more) – The Partnership

Lecture 6: Partners With Protection – The Limited Partnership

Lecture 7: Inc. on Paper! – The Corporation

Lecture 8: Limited Choice – the LLC

Lecture 9: Pros Only – The Professional Limited Liability Entities

Lecture 10: Buying an Existing Business

Lecture 11: Franchising! An Intro

Lecture 12: The Franchise Agreement

Chapter 5: That Is Mine! – Physical and Intellectual Property

Lecture 1: Mine mine mine mine! Intro to Property Law

Lecture 2: Thinking About The Home Based Business

Lecture 3: A Space Of Your Own – Commercial Leases

Lecture 4: Insurance As A Risk Management Tool

Chapter 6: Hey You! – Employees and Customers

Lecture 1: Don't Hurt Me! – Introduction to Tort Law

Lecture 2: Slip & Fall! – Premises Liability

Lecture 3: Protection – Intro to Consumer Protection Law

Lecture 4: MacPherson v. Buick

Lecture 5: You're Hired! – Hiring An Employee

Lecture 6: Another Work Day – Employees and the Law

Lecture 7: You're Fired! – Employee Terminations

Lecture 8: I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday – Accounts Receivable and Credit

Lecture 9: Pay Me Now! – The Collections Process

Chapter 7: I Promise! – Contract Law and Running Your Business

Lecture 1: This for That – Contracts Basics

Lecture 2: Getting COLIC – Contract Basics in a Nutshell

Lecture 3: You're Not Santa! – Clauses and Waivers

Lecture 4: Oh Goodie! – The UCC and the Sale of Goods

Lecture 5: Breaching! – Resolving Contract Disputes

Lecture 6: Hadley v. Baxendale

Lecture 7: This is Taxing! – Intro to Business Tax Law

Lecture 8: Getting SALTy – State and Local Tax Issues

Lecture 9: I'm Being Audited! – A Primer on Tax Audits

Chapter 8: I Got Sued! – Civil Procedure, Evidence, Remedies

Lecture 1: Please Be Civil! – The Civil Lawsuit

Lecture 2: I Object – Evidence

Chapter 9: I Got Arrested! – Criminal Law

Lecture 1: Cuff 'Em – Basics of Criminal Law and Business

Lecture 2: I Got Scammed! – Typical Scams and Frauds

Chapter 10: Raising Money and Selling the Business – Capital and the Exit Strategy

Lecture 1: I'm Out – Selling Your Business

Lecture 2: I'm Out Part 2 – Retirement…Planned and Unplanned

Lecture 3: We're in the Money! – Going Public

Lecture 4: Gone Bust – Bankruptcy and Workouts