Spring 2027

Business Organizations: Partnership, Llc, and Closely Held Corporations

Covers law of agency, partnership, limited liability companies, and closely held corporations, focusing on legal forms and governance structures.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 John Ohnesorge

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.27 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.38 GPA, 45.9% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.24 GPA, 23.8% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Recognize the primary legal forms for doing business in the United States, from the basic relationship of principal and agent, through the general partnership, to the corporation

  • Identify how fiduciary duties interact with contracting and with statutory norms in structuring entity governance

  • Recognize the basic drivers of business entity choice, especially limited liability, tax treatment, and financing

  • Compare and contrast a wide range of business relationships and their legal structures

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Law JD

  • Declared in Law JD
LAW 817

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  • Declared in Law JD

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.09 GPA, 22.7% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.27 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.24 GPA, 23.8% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JOHN OHNESORGE is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.27 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.38 GPA, 45.9% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.24 GPA, 23.8% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Agency, partnership, limited liability companies, and closely held corporations
  • Fiduciary duties, contracting, and statutory norms in entity governance
  • Business entity choice drivers including limited liability, tax treatment, and financing

Skills

  • Recognize primary legal forms for doing business in the US, including agency, partnerships, LLCs, and corporations
  • Identify interactions between fiduciary duties, contracting, and statutory norms in entity governance
  • Recognize drivers of business entity choice such as limited liability, tax treatment, and financing
  • Compare and contrast various business relationships and their legal structures

Grades

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Catalog & offerings

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LAW 817 · Spring 2027

Business Organizations: Partnership, LLC, and Closely Held Corporations

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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