Personal Update - A Teaching Gig for TGR
It's been a while since my last post, much longer than I would like. But since I'm not quite ready to continue my usual substantive posts, I thought I should ay least explain the hiatus,
I've been doing the blog for 9 or 10 months now and have really enjoyed it, but Summer is a really tough time to keep to my blogging schedule. There's so much I like to do outdoors during Summer - sailing, golf, festivals, gatherings with friends, to name just a few. And of course, watching the Olympics and now the political conventions. So there's that. And then the occupational hazard of getting really busy at work with matters for clients has reared its head recently.
But the main reason I haven't been posting according to my usual schedule is that I will be teaching an undergraduate class at Capital University's School of Management and Leadership called Business Law II. It starts tomorrow evening from 6 to 9 PM, and from what I've been told, is a relatively small class student wise and will mostly have adult students trying to finish a degree. It's a hand-off from my former law partner Steve Martin who used to teach the class and still teaches several other classes for Capital University and elsewhere.
The class meets once a week on Thursday evening through mid-December. It covers the basics of Business Associations (partnerships, corporations, LLCs), some Uniform Commercial Code in the form of UCC Article 3 & 4 (Checks and Negotiable Instruments), UCC Article 9 (Secured Transactions), very quickly UCC Articles 5 (Letters of Credit), UCC Article 7 (Documents of Title, including Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading), and UCC Article 8 (Securities), and a smattering of other business law, including Securities Regulation, Bankruptcy, Labor & Employment, and whatever else we wind up having time for.
I am very excited about this opportunity because it marries what I pretty much do every day in my law practice with the different environment and perhaps more theoretical approach of academia. However, I have also been very mindful of my responsibilities as teacher and have spent much of the last few weeks boning up on the more esoteric aspects of these subjects and making the very real practical decisions about what to cover when and how. Consequently, between golf, work, and this new gig, there hasn't been much time lately for the blog.
I'm hopeful that can change soon. I'm very familar with the material I'll be teaching and have certainly done seminars from time to time on different aspects of what I'll be teaching in the next few months. Yet the prospect of doing the equivalent of a seminar a week for the next 14 or 15 weeks can be at least a little intimidating at first. Hence my absence from the blogosphere of late.
So tomorrow's the day, the inaugural day of my formal teaching career. I hope to be back to blogging on a regular basis soon - I do have a few draft posts in the pipeline. For now, however, I just want to get this new opportunity off to a good start!!!
