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Business Programs ►Business Law Specialist Certificate Program with Externship

Program includes National Certification & an Externship Opportunity

The Business Law Specialist

The laws governing business and the operations within are based on fundamental principles that stretch back to the simplest beginnings of commerce and trade. Despite these simple principles, business has become more and more sophisticated with time requiring a number of ways to codify certain aspects of business transactions and ensure that all corporate entities are operating in a way that serves the common good. Specialists in Business Law understand the ins and outs of all of these principles from corporate filings to business ethics. Prepared to work in a variety of business settings from HR offices to corporate law division support and/or executive board support positions, individuals who can master the intricacies of business law are of significant value to any business.

The Business Law Specialist Program

This Business Law Specialist Program is designed to introduce students to all business law concepts from their roots in common law through to elements of American and international law that make up this area of robust jurisprudence. Businesses operate every day under accepted theories of contract and tort law, promoting equitable transactions and ensuring corporate responsibility that advance accepted notions of good business practices. Corporations are also subject to various statutory frameworks that dictate the treatment and conditions of employees, ensure environmental protection and protect consumers from powerful organizations when necessary. Throughout this program, students will explore all of these issues and learn how the law applies to business operations every day.

Program Objectives


  • Analyze the legal environment of business in the United States
  • Explain the applicability of tort and criminal law to business
  • Explain the applicability of intellectual property law to business
  • Explain how contract law principles apply to business transactions
  • Explain the law of negotiable instruments
  • Evaluate the rights and responsibilities of principals, agents, and third parties in agency transactions
  • Analyze the various employment laws affecting the employer-employee relationship in the United States
  • Evaluate the forms of business organization in the United States
  • Analyze the ethical and social responsibility of business
  • Evaluate the various types of government regulation that affect business
  • Explain the effects of personal and real property laws on business
  • Appraise the impact that international law has on global business
  • Use Microsoft Office


  • Identify the sources of law in the United States
  • Describe the state and federal court systems
  • Categorize the jurisdiction of federal and state courts
  • Describe the steps involved in civil litigation
  • Compare arbitration and mediation as alternative methods of dispute resolution
  • Relate constitutional law to business and electronic commerce


  • Explain the various types of tort liability
  • Differentiate between common crimes and white-collar crimes
  • Categorize the constitutional protections available to a criminal suspect/defendant


  • Define terms related to intellectual property law
  • Explain the legal protection available to the holder of a trade secret
  • Explain the legal protection available to a patent holder
  • Explain the legal protection available to a copyright holder


  • Analyze the elements of contract formation
  • Categorize the various types of contracts
  • Describe various types of third-party rights to contracts
  • Explain the remedies available for breach of contract
  • Describe the applicability of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) to contracts for the sale of goods


  • Describe the types of negotiable instruments
  • Explain the elements necessary to create a negotiable instrument
  • Explain how to negotiate order paper and bearer paper
  • Describe the various types of endorsements
  • Explain the rights available to a holder in due course
  • Explain the applicability of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) to bank transactions


  • Explain the principal-agent relationship
  • Describe how to form an agency
  • Categorize the rights, duties, and liabilities of the principal and the agent in an agency relationship
  • Categorize the various ways an agency terminates clients


  • Analyze the various employment, worker protection, and immigration laws
  • Explain the laws related to organizing a union
  • Explain the laws related to the collective bargaining process
  • Analyze the various conflict resolution remedies available to labor and management during the collective bargaining process
  • Describe the various laws related to equal employment opportunity


  • Define terms related to forms of business organization in the United States
  • Compare the advantages and disadvantages of operating a business as a sole proprietorship
  • Compare the advantages and disadvantages of operating a business as a partnership
  • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of operating a business as a corporation
  • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of operating a business as a limited liability company


  • Explain the relationship of business ethics and social responsibility to the law
  • Compare the five (5) major theories of ethics
  • Compare the four (4) major theories of the social responsibilities of business


  • Explain the role of administrative agencies in regulating business
  • Evaluate the federal government's role in regulating consumer protection and product safety
  • Explain the federal government's role in environmental protection
  • Evaluate the various antitrust and unfair trade practice laws


  • Explain how to acquire ownership of personal property
  • Explain the rights and responsibilities of the parties in a bailment relationship
  • Describe the various estates in real property
  • Describe the various forms of concurrent ownership of real property
  • Explain how to acquire ownership of real property


  • Explain the constitutional basis for federal government regulation of U.S. international affairs
  • Describe the regional international organizations affecting global business
  • Explain how international disputes are resolved legally


Education and National Certifications

    • Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification Exam

National Certification


Externship / Hands on Training / Practicum

