LAW 298P - Government Contracts Negotiation Practicum.

This practicum will simulate the various interwoven roles of lawyers from in-house counsel, outside counsel, and government during the progression of the government contract and commercial contract lifecycles. Students will draft, redline, and negotiate government and commercial contracts and advise their respective clients in how to deal with their government or commercial counterparts throughout a number of key scenarios. Each student will be assigned to a specific team but will play multiple roles, including Government, Prime Contractor, Subcontractor, and Outside Counsel and those roles will have shifting and conflicting interests, similar to the business world. While the course is concentrated on government contracts, the skills taught within this course are translatable to nearly any kind of industry which employs business lawyers. The exercises will convey a wide range of skills and instincts that a business lawyer in the DC area market should have in order to be an effective legal advisor to a number of different entities with complicated interests. Students will be asked to analyze new and existing laws and provide strategic insights to their clients based on a highly fluid and sometimes volatile legal landscape in a hotly contentious and visible environment. Students will consider direct and indirect consequences of their clients’ actions and will learn to read between the lines of their role as well as understand the foundations of government and commercial law. Students will also delve into to the politics of the expenditure of taxpayer money and how it affects the various players in the economic sphere of government contracts. Three hours. Dastvar