LEG500- Law, Ethics & Corporate Governance
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NOTE: This course will use Teaching Assistants (TAs) to assist your Professor and Jon Steinberg with the
teaching experience.
COURSE GUIDE: LEG500: Law, Ethics & Corporate Governance
Understanding the Legal and Ethical Considerations Critical to running a Digital Startup
In this course, you’ll learn how to choose an attorney, foster an ethical work environment, ensure legal
compliance when hiring and managing employees, and discover how to operate from a preventive law
standpoint. You’ll also become familiar with intellectual property considerations, contracts and
agreements, personal ethics statements, and risk minimization at your startup. This information will
help guide your individual influence on the business' ability to protect itself and meet its obligations to
stakeholders.
COURSE DELIVERY
This course will be delivered primarily on Facebook. Upon enrollment, your professor will invite you to
join the Facebook Course Group associated with this course. You will nee to use the Facebook app to d
access this course on your mobile device. If you don’t already have it, find the steps to download the
Facebook Mobile App here: https://www.facebook.com/mobile.
There will also be a corresponding Black Board course shell which you will utilize to check your Grades,
Submit Assignments 1, 2 and 3 and complete your weekly High Growth Thinking exercises via the
Blackboard Student App on your phone or the Blackboard course shell on your computer. Find the steps
to download the Blackboard Student App here: https://help.blackboard.com/Bb_Student/Quick_Start
Your professor will also post links in Facebook to take you directly to these items in the Blackboard
Course via the BB Student App (be sure that you’re signed into Blackboard before clicking on them or
you will get an error message).
YOUR DIGITAL MBA BOOKS (Required Reading):
1. The Entrepreneur's Legal Companion
2nd Edition by Daniel V. Davidson | Lynn M. Forsythe
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2. Entrepreneur's Guide To Building A Solid Legal Foundation
by Dayna Thomas
WEEKLY COURSE SCHEDULE
The standard requirement for a 4.5 credit hour course is for students to spend 13.5 hours in weekly work.
This includes preparation and activities regardless of delivery mode.
Week
Preparation and Activities
1
Hiring an Attorney & Business Structure
Preparation
• Watch (not graded) Jon’s Course Introduction Video
• Watch the Week One Live Lesson
• Reading(s)
o The Entrepreneur's Legal Companion- Chapter 1
o Entrepreneur's Guide To Building A Solid Legal Foundation- Chapter 2
Activities
• Complete the Week One ( points) Cheddar Chat 18
• Complete the Week One ** Exercise (18 points) High Growth Thinking
