All  Concentration students will be required to complete twenty five (25) credits in Concentration courses, broken down as follows.

Specific elective courses required of students who opt to receive the Business Law and Financial Services certificate are noted at the end of this section. 

For complete course descriptions, please consult the Elective Courses section of the Suffolk University Law School web site at www.law.suffolk.edu/academic/jd/electives.cfm. Please note that not all courses are offered each semester and plan accordingly.

Core Courses                                                          11 credits

Students must take 3 of the following 4 courses.  Students who opt to take all 4 courses may count the fourth course as a Concentration elective.

Students must take 3 of the following 4 courses.  Students who opt to take all 4 courses may count the fourth course as a Concentration elective.

Business Practicum Courses and

Internships                                                               at least 2 credits

Students must also take one (1) of the business practicum courses listed below or, alternatively, complete a for-credit internship with a business or financial placement pre- approved by the Faculty Director.  Students who opt to complete more than one (1) course from this list may count the additional course(s) as a Concentration elective(s).

Internships for the concentration must relate to business law or financial services and eligible internships will be determined by the Concentration Director and the Administrative Director of Concentrations. 

All eligible internships must be accompanied by a corresponding classroom component.  The classroom component may be satisfied by enrollment in either Legal Process and Practice or in an approved business law or financial services elective course.  Students will not receive Concentration credit for their enrollment in Legal Process and Practice.  Students who seek to satisfy the classroom component in conjunction with a financial services elective must be supervised in their internship by the full time resident course professor, including meeting with the professor on a regular basis, submitting internship time logs and  journals, completing other assignments, and generally complying with the requirements applicable to internships taken in conjunction with a course. 

Law School Elective Courses                                      12 credits

Students who opt to receive the Concentration certificate in Business Law may choose, in their own discretion, among the following courses to complete the elective course component of the Concentration.   

Special Requirements for students who opt to receive the Concentration certificate in Business Law and Financial Services are noted immediately following this elective course list.

With the approval of the Concentration Faculty Director, other courses offered as part of the Law School’s Summer Sweden program, that are of a similar curricular character to other general Concentration electives, may be counted as Concentration electives.  

Special Requirements for the Business Law and

Financial Services Certificate

Students who seek to receive the Concentration certificate in Business Law and Financial Services must take Banking Law and at least two (2) elective courses from the list of courses below as part of the twelve (12) elective credits for the Concentration.

The Graduate Program at the

Sawyer Business School                                     up to 6 credits

Students who are not participating in a joint degree program may opt to take a maximum of six (6) elective credits in the Graduate Program at the Sawyer Business School courses. The number of credits taken at the Graduate Program at the Sawyer Business School will reduce a student’s number of Law School elective credits. 

Students must take the Law School course, Accounting for Lawyers, or demonstrate equivalent accounting proficiency, prior to enrollment in any of the Graduate Program at the Sawyer Business School.

Students who are participating in a joint degree program may not count any credits earned in the Graduate Program at the Sawyer Business School toward fulfillment of the Concentration’s elective course requirements. 

Students who are not enrolled in a joint degree program may use up to six (6) credits of courses from the Graduate Program at the Sawyer Business School courses, including MBA 650 – Value Based Financial Management, for Concentration credit.  Other Graduate Program at the Sawyer Business School courses in Accounting and Finance, which generally fall within the coded ACCT and FIN course headings, are also acceptable, and may be approved for Concentration credit in the discretion of the Concentration Faculty Director. 

For a complete Sawyer Business School course catalog and current course schedules, please visit the Sawyer Business School at www.suffolk.edu/business/index.html.