Dear A & P Students, 

As the email message noted (dated 12/29, to all enrolled A& P students), this note brings you information for advance preparation for the first week of class and provides a couple updates.

1. Book: We will not use a casebook but will use Kleinberger's Examples and Explanations book for Agency, Partnership and LLCs. Latest edition - 2011. Students generally love it. It retails for less than $50 and is well written. Please purchase it.

2. I endeavor to ensure that this course is both fun and relevant to current business transactions and real legal work pertaining to formation of business organizations. To that end, before the first class:

(a) please watch the film "Trading Places" with Dan Ackroyd, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis from the mid-1980s. It's a hoot but also provides the "factual scenario" we analyze for applying initial agency principles. You need to watch it at least once before class begins and likely a second time when you receive your first assignment that focuses on it. (Warning, some cuts include frontal nudity and all versions include crass language, cursing, etc., so keep the remote handy and children elsewhere so you can fast-forward where needed.) We will use it for several assignments.

(2) Start collecting news stories that focus on business issues, and particularly the formation of businesses or business decision making. Try to locate stories about partnerships, LLCs or solely owned entities, rather than corporations as that will place the stories closer to our course's scope. BRING THEM TO THE FIRST CLASS, at least 3-5 stories. Preferably, locate several from print media rather than from the web. You can copy or rip a news story. from a disposable source.

For the first day's class: please have read text pp 1-2 as well as bring in the news articles you collected; have completed watching the film once. The second day's (Wednesday) assignment: read the text through p. 13 and attached case (Tarnowski--also posted on TWEN). 

Looking forward to meeting you! --Prof. Hoke