The student s skills in using legal concepts to achieve desired results in a transactional setting are expanded. This course focuses on the residential real estate transaction. Stressing the lawyer s role in the real estate transaction, the course examines the numerous federal and state laws which regulate even the most basic land transaction the single family residence. This course is recommended prior to enrollment in Real Estate Tax Planning Seminar. The study of equitable, legal and restitutionary remedies in civil actions.
Emphasis is placed on the importance of analysis of a client s file to identify remedies.
This course explores issues affecting rural land owners and the management of their lands. This course explores specialized rural problems such as poverty, ethnic group assimilation, regional development and integration, farmland protection, ad valorem taxation and differential assessment problems. Each semester a single topic will be selected as the Rural Seminar class topic. This will be done based on the currency or severity of particular problems. This seminar topic will then be explored in great depth in the seminar and will be the subject about which seminar papers will be developed.