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Has anyone on here gone through Emory's transactional law certificate program? How much of a boost does this certificate give you when you're looking for a job? And with 1L classes being kind of geared toward litigation, how did you decide that this pretty intense transactional curriculum would suit you? Did you come from a business background? Is that necessary to succeed in this program?

http://www.law.emory.edu/centers-clinic ... ogram.html

I'd really appreciate some feedback on this. Even if you haven't done this particular program, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the benefits of such certificates in general.

Looks stupid. Firms don't give a shit about certificates and other things like this when hiring.

-2nd year transactional attorney.

Tell me about how you decided to do transactional work. Because as I understand it, the 1L curriculum doesn't really touch transactional stuff. Did you make the decision based on classes you took in the fall of 2L?

Litigation and transactional work are very different than each other. It should not be hard for you to figure out which side of the line you fall under. The harder question is what specific type of litigation or transactional work you want to do.


The program itself is useful to the extent that if you never worked in a corporate setting it gives you a good breakdown of fundamental contract drafting techniques and the anatomy of various types of sophisticated contracts (ie: IP licensing deals, asset purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, angel investor agreements, etc). It will help make you familiar with types of deals a lot of first year associates will be staffed on, but you will not be an expert.