Prerequisites: None.  The seminar examines the impact of environmental laws and regulations on business and/or real estate transactions.  The seminar will address the need to deal with hazardous and toxic wastes, protection of air and water, and the implications of potential liability for harms to workers and to others as a result of environmental harms allegedly generated by business activities.  Included may be questions of causation, risk/benefit analysis, the regulatory process and the effects of overlapping jurisdictions as well as common law liability and workers¿ compensation.  In addition, there will be discussion of document drafting and analysis as they pertain to environmental aspects of business transactions.