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Negotiation and Business

Lewis & Clark Law School’s business competition teams—covering areas like patent law, tax law, transactional law, and more—offer students a chance to apply complex legal concepts in practical, high-stakes environments. Competing at the national level, students sharpen their analytical, drafting, and advocacy skills while gaining valuable experience in areas critical to modern legal and business practice.

Dispute Resolution and Business Law Competitions

In Dispute resolution and business law competitions, students use their strategic negotiation skills and knowledge of substantive law to achieve the best result for their client. They may include contract negotiation, deal structuring, or solving complex regulatory problems—preparing students for careers as legal problem solvers.

(M&A competitions and the two patent competitions.)

Moot Court: ABA Negotiation National (713)

This competition, offered by the ABA Law Student Division, focuses on honing law students’ negotiation skills through simulated legal negotiations. Participants act as lawyers to negotiate legal problems with both common and confidential information. This course emphasizes developing practical negotiating abilities within a legal context, with each round presenting a new negotiation scenario related to a consistent general topic.

ABA Negotiation National (713)

Moot Court: ABA Client Counseling Regional (724 A)

Designed to refine students’ interviewing, counseling, and communication skills essential for legal practice, this Moot Court competition emphasizes client interaction techniques. The course features an intra-school competition at the end of the Fall semester, providing students with hands-on experience in client counseling within a competitive setting.

Moot Court: Client Counseling Regional (724A)

Other Dispute Resolution and Business Law competitions are added based on student interest and coach availability. These have included:

American Bar Associations Business Law Section’s MAC CUP II
Wayne State Taft Transactional Law Invitational: Students Hollis Robb ’26, West Aron ’25, Brittany Mullen ’26 took first place in the Drafting Counsel category. Coach Bonnie Page.
USPTO 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition

March 1, 2025
remote
Coach: Dan Housley
Joey Mogavero ’26

ABA Client Counseling Competition

February 15-16, 2025
Philadelphia, PA,
Coach: Troy Nixon,
Kierra Cable L’26; Claire McLaughlin L’26, Hollis Robb L’26, Mairead O’Neill L’26.