Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate 

Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate Overview 

Whether you are planning to start a new business or aspiring to lead change in the legal field, the Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate program can prepare you to navigate the legal challenges entrepreneurs may face.

With a broad range of topics covered, including privacy dilemmas, startup law, legal applications, and more, current lawyers can build skills to enhance their current service offerings. Legal professionals can utilize these competencies from this online entrepreneurship certificate program to open a new business or expand a current business.

Flexible, Accessible, and Affordable 

Professional certificate programs are designed with working professionals in mind and can be completed in just eight months for only $600 per course. The program is 100% online, meeting the needs of your busy schedule.  

Interested in another in-demand area that intersects with the legal field? Visit our other professional certificate programs in Business Operations, Emerging Law, or Technology to learn more. 

Online Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate Courses

Complete four of the following five courses to earn your Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate. Credits earned from these courses may be applied to the Master of Business, Law, and Technology degree program. 

Privacy Dilemmas 

Experience an in-depth look at the scope of privacy rights and the institutional practices and processes that may affect those rights. This entrepreneurship certificate course will cover the technology, laws, and policies related to privacy issues, including those raised by wiretapping, stored data collection and mining, location tracking, drones, and social media.

Data Security and Breach 

Examine legal requirements applicable to data security, including responses to data breaches. Topics include laws applicable to public and private entities, methods of data breach investigation, data breach notice requirements and practical considerations, and legal risks exposure arising from data breach and notice.

Introduction to Startup Law

In this entrepreneurship certificate course, you will gain an introduction to the legal knowledge necessary for entrepreneurs and emerging startups. Using innovative legal tools and processes, the course simulates situations where the law must be considered to launch an enterprise or grow a business. 

Building Legal Applications: Document Automations and Expert Systems

Lawyers who learn to automate legal forms and expert systems may sell access to online systems that dispense sophisticated legal analysis without direct human involvement. Government officials may find citizen assistance easier and more cost-effective to provide when using expert systems. Courts and legal aid programs are providing intelligent forms for unrepresented litigants. Nonprofit organizations support their constituents who need assistance with form completion and legal education. In this entrepreneurship certificate online course, you will learn to create scalable expert systems with low-code tools designed to lower barriers and scale service models.

Emerging Technology and the Law

A forum for students to consider the relationship between key emerging technologies and the law, you will discuss the legal implications of a particular emerging technology such as autonomous cars, drones, robots, big data, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology, quantum computing, and 3D printing. You will be asked to consider whether existing legal frameworks are sufficient to address issues related to emerging technologies and the basis for new frameworks will be considered.

Explore other learning pathways

In addition to the Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate, The Colleges of Law offers professional certificate programs in Business Operations, Emerging Law, and Technology. 

Any of these professional certificates can be applied toward a Master of Business, Law, and Technology degree.  

Professional legal courses may also be taken to expand your knowledge in high-demand subjects of emerging law such as Regulation and Compliance, Startup Law, Technology for Legal Professionals, and more. 

Licensure: Except as provided in rule 4.30 of the Admissions Rules (Legal Education in a foreign state or country), completion of a professional law degree program at this law  school other than for the Juris Doctor degree does not qualify a student to take the California Bar Examination or satisfy the requirements for admission to practice law in California.