Financial Concepts for Lawyers

New York University School of Law’s Financial Concepts for Lawyers is a 10 hour course designed to introduce and acclimate first year law students to foundational ideas, methods, and standards of financial and quantitative fields. This course is divided into four units – covering the general areas of Accounting, Business Entities, Finance, and Statistics, each ending with a practitioner’s perspective on the relevancy to various legal fields. These ideas, methods, and standards are essential to lawyers practicing in any area of law, and as such are required domains of knowledge for any successful attorney.

The highly esteemed experts presenting the units are respected professors from New York University School of Law. Helen Scott teaches the unit Investors and Business Entities with the lesson on Taxation presented by Josh Blank; Jerry Rosenfeld teaches Accounting; Jennifer Arlen teaches Finance; and Geoff Miller teaches the unit Communicating Data and Statistics.