Legal Underpinnings of Business Law

Week 1 Assignment

 

Legal Underpinnings of Business Law
Imagine that you own each of the following businesses:

 

Tinker’s Home Security Service (sole proprietorship)

 

Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service (general partnership)

 

Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service (LP)

 

Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service, Inc. (corporation)

 

Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service, LLC (LLC)

 

1. The businesses are being sued for breach of contract. Create a matrix that lists each business, and compare and contrast your personal liability exposure as an owner as a result of the lawsuit.

 

2. For each business entity, analyze how you might limit your liability exposure as an owner.

 

3. Describe a business that you may own some day or that you currently own. (Even if you never plan to own a business, pretend as if you will do so for the purposes of this assignment.) Examine the best business organizational form for the business that you have described, including in your examination personal liability exposure, management, taxation, and ease of formation.

 

Submit a four- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and you must cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

 

 

Week 2 Assignment

 

Negligent Tort

 

Visit the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission website. Click on “Recalls.” Choose one product that has been recalled.

 

1. Describe the product subject to recall, including the recall date, recall number, and the reason for the recall.

 

2. Analyze whether the manufacturer would be liable for negligence if the product had not been recalled and had caused harm to a consumer.

 

3. Discusses the following in relation to the product recall:

 

a. Duty of Care

 

b. Standard of Care

 

c. Breach of the Duty of Care

 

d. Actual Causation

 

e. Proximate Causation

 

f. Actual Injury

 

g. Defenses to Negligence

 

4. Analyze and apply a relevant consumer protection statute identified under “Consumer Protection” in Chapter 8 of your text in conjunction with the product recall that you have identified.

 

Submit a four- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

 

 

Week 3 Assignment

 

Elements of a Contract

 

Suppose that the Fabulous Hotel hires you as head chef under a two year employment contract. After two years, another hotel wants to hire you. However, in the original employment contract you signed with the Fabulous Hotel, the following paragraph appears:

 

“The below-signed agrees not to work as a chef for another hotel in the same metropolitan area for a period of two years after leaving our employ.”

 

1. Describe and analyze the five elements of a contract that must exist for this agreement to be enforceable.

 

2. Explain why this contract is governed by common law or the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).

 

3. Examine at least two circumstances in which this non-compete agreement would be unenforceable.

 

Submit a four- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

 

 

Week 4 Assignment

 

Outline of Final Paper

 

The paper must be one to two pages, excluding the title page and references page(s), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

Address all of the following parts of this assignment:

 

1. Prepare a one- to two-page double-spaced outline of your Final Paper.

 

2. The outline must contain the following major sections that will exist in the Final Paper: a. A description of a business situation that presents

 

a legal and ethical issue.

 

b. A description of at least two ethical theories under which the situation will be analyzed.

 

c. An explanation of the specific areas of law under which the situation will be analyzed.

 

3. The outline must be accompanied by a reference page that includes at least 10 scholarly sources that will be used in your Final Paper.

 

Submit a one- to two-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite at least 10 scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

 

 

Week 5 Assignment

 

Anti-discrimination Laws Related to Employment

 

Your supervisor has placed you in charge of hiring a new, full-time administrative assistant for your department.

 

1. Prepare an advertisement for that position that complies with federal law. This advertisement must be detailed. The minimum length of your job description must be 300 words (approximately three-fourths of a page). You can make up the job details but must include the following:

 

a. A job description

 

b. A description of the job duties

 

c. A description of the minimum qualifications

 

2. Prepare 10 illegal questions that must not be asked. For each question, be sure to justify your reasoning.

 

3. Prepare 10 legal questions that may be asked during the interview. For each question, be sure to justify each question.

 

Submit your three- to five-page paper (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

 

 

Week 6 Assignment

 

Final Paper
Focus of the Final Paper

 

Prepare an 11- to 15-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) that assesses a legal/ethical issue or situation relating to a current, previous, or potential future work environment. Use at least 10 scholarly sources that are suitable for research in a graduate-level course. Your paper must include the following:

 

1. A description of a business situation that presents a legal and ethical issue. The business situation must be from prior, current, or anticipated future employment experiences or from a current event. The description of the business situation must not exceed two pages.

 

2. An analysis of the ethical concerns raised by the situation.

 

a. Apply at least two different ethical theories to the situation to support at least two different outcomes.

 

b. The paper must determine which ethical outlook as applied to this particular situation will result in the best legal outcome for the business.

 

3. An explanation of at least three of the relevant areas of law that have been addressed in this course (e.g., constitutional law, contracts, anti-trust law, securities regulations, employment law, environmental law, crimes, or torts) and an assessment of the each area of law as it applies to the business situation identified.

 

4. A recommendation to reduce liability exposure and improve the ethical climate or the overall ethics of the situation. Your recommendation must be supported by specific legal, ethical, and business principles. A recommendation to reduce liability exposure and improve the ethical climate or the overall ethics of the situation.

 

Writing the Final Paper

 

The Final Paper:

 

1. Must be 11 to 15 double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

2. Must include a title page with the following:

 

a. Title of paper

 

b. Student’s name

 

c. Course name and number

 

d. Instructor’s name

 

e. Date submitted

 

3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement which identifies the focus of the paper.

 

4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.

 

5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.

 

6. Must use at least 10 scholarly sources.

 

7. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

8. Must include a separate references page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.