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Charleston Law set to compete in Jaffe Invitational
Members of the Charleston School of Law Transactional Law Team are traveling to Detroit to compete in the Jaffe Transactional Law Invitational at Wayne State University this week.
The Invitational provides students with the opportunity to develop drafting, negotiating, and counseling skills, with teams representing either the buyer or seller in a complex acquisition. Charleston Law students have been preparing throughout the fall and early spring semester for the competition.
According to the outline of the competition available through the Wayne State website, “teams from different schools will focus on drafting and revising a transactional agreement as well as completing a mark-up of opposing counsel’s draft. Finally, the teams from each law school will come together to participate in a day of live negotiations. Each team will compete in two rounds of negotiations.”
The Charleston Law team, which is coached by Professor Jean Steadman, will be represented by Transactional Law Team members Lauren Tuffo and Amanda Cummings.
The event will be judged by a distinguished group of Metro Detroit M&A attorneys, who will review both the drafts and the negotiation sessions.
Following each negotiation session, the judges will provide each team with individualized feedback and determine which teams represented their clients the most effectively based on various guidelines.
The Jaffe Transactional Law Competition was founded in 2014 by former Wayne law students in an effort to provide law students with practical exposure to the practice of transactional law. Since its inception, the competition has helped students develop critical transactional law skills.
CHARLESTON SCHOOL OF LAW QUICK FACTS
The Charleston School of Law is an ABA-accredited law school nationally recognized for its student-centric culture. Our faculty and staff are committed to preparing you for success both in the classroom and in the legal profession.
- The Princeton Review ranks Charleston School of Law professors second in the country for faculty accessibility (2021)
- Charleston School of Law faculty ranked among the top of The Princeton Review’s list of Best Professors in the nation (2016-2018)
- Experiential Learning: Charleston School of Law students have access to about more than 150 externship sites, creating opportunities for experiential learning in the legal field.
- Community Service: Charleston School of Law students have performed more than 241,000 community service hours (2004-current).
- Students have won the National Tax Moot Court Championship for seven consecutive years (2012-2018)
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