Transactional Skills For Tomorrow

Adam Eckart (Suffolk), Transactional Skills for Tomorrow: 

Transactional Skills courses have long covered the ins and outs of contract drafting. But in practice, transactional skills are much more broad and are constantly evolving. While recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have motivated many skills professors, including professors covering transactional skills, to integrate elements of AI into their teaching and curriculum, a fulsome transactional skills curriculum covers so much more: negotiation, narrative and storytelling, regulation, and oral advocacy. This article discusses the future of transactional skills in the classroom, including a updated curriculum used in the spring 2023 semester at Suffolk University Law School. 

The articles discusses how the future of transactional skills curriculum goes beyond contract drafting and can use the life cycle of a client to discuss all of the skills transactional attorneys need in practice: integrating topics related to artificial intelligence, narrative and storytelling, negotiation, regulation, and oral advocacy into the existing transactional skills curriculum.