Start building the business fluency that will help you contribute with greater confidence as your legal career begins.
Prairie Mountain Partners created this seminar series for articling students and summer associates who want to better understand the business side of legal practice and grow into trusted advisors.
Through practical sessions on accounting, valuation, M&A, and negotiation, you will learn how to follow client conversations more clearly, ask stronger questions, and see how business decisions connect to legal advice.
These sessions are built to give you a stronger foundation early, so you can contribute with more confidence in meetings, transactions, negotiations, and the client moments that shape your career.
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Accounting Unlocked is designed to help you start building the financial fluency that will become increasingly important as you grow throughout your career as a lawyer and advisor. In this seminar, you will develop greater confidence interpreting financial statements and understanding what the numbers can tell you about a business, a transaction, or a client decision.
Financial statements often sit at the centre of conversations with clients, lenders, investors, advisors, and deal teams. A stronger understanding of those statements will help you follow the business discussion more clearly, ask more informed questions, and recognize when the numbers may affect the advice your client needs.
As your career progresses, you will be expected to engage more confidently in business conversations that often begin with financial information. Accounting Unlocked helps you build that fluency early, so you can contribute more thoughtfully, communicate more effectively, and develop into a stronger legal and business advisor.
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
REVISED DATE: TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2026
11 A.M. - 1 P.M.
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Valuation is one of the most consequential and most misunderstood elements of business law. It sits at the centre of many transactions, shareholder disputes, financing decisions, and strategic business conversations. It is also more art than science, where you can be textbook perfect and still be wrong. In this session, you will better understand how valuators approach valuation, where key decisions get made, and how that insight can help you anticipate issues, strengthen your analysis, and elevate your role in the matters you work on.
This seminar is designed to give you, as young lawyers, a practical edge. When you understand how valuation conclusions are constructed, and where they can be stretched, stressed, or misunderstood, you are better positioned to ask sharper questions and guide your clients with greater confidence. You will also see how valuation issues show up not only in formal reports, but in negotiations, diligence, disputes, deal strategy, and day-to-day business decision making.
Valuation is not just about arriving at a number. It is about understanding the assumptions, judgments, and pressures that shape that number, and why different parties may see value differently. For you as young lawyers, developing that understanding will help you support clients more strategically, spot issues earlier, and bring clearer judgment to the business and legal decisions that will shape your careers.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
11 A.M. - 1 P.M.
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Mergers and acquisitions are among the most dynamic areas of legal practice because lawyers need to understand more than the legal documents. When a deal goes well, it is because the right preparation, timing, and advice came together to support a clear business objective. This seminar is built around helping you understand those broader transaction dynamics, including how deals unfold, how negotiations play out, and where lawyers can add value before issues become problems.
Deals rarely fall apart for one obvious reason. More often, they break down because expectations were mismanaged, issues were identified too late, or clients did not have the right advice early enough. As you move through your careers, a better understanding of the bigger picture will put you in a stronger position to help clients prepare for a transaction, manage risk, protect momentum, and increase the probability of a successful close.
As young lawyers, your value in a transaction will not come only from knowing the documents. It will come from understanding how the deal is moving, what the client is trying to achieve, where risk is building, and how the right advice at the right time can change the outcome. You should leave with greater confidence in how proactive advice can help clients prepare, make better decisions, and get deals closed.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
11 A.M. - 1 P.M.
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Negotiation is one of the most consequential skills a lawyer can develop because it shapes outcomes in real transactions, real disputes, and real relationships. This seminar explores the core dynamics of negotiation, including the economic and behavioral forces that influence how decisions are made and how outcomes are reached.
Every negotiation is shaped by emotion, pressure, incentives, assumptions, and incomplete information. We will examine how anchoring, asymmetric information, trust, and transparency affect the process, and how lawyers can keep people at the table, find common ground, and move difficult conversations toward practical solutions.
Ultimately, negotiation is not just a skill for the bargaining table. It is a career-long discipline that helps lawyers understand what drives decisions, influence outcomes, advise clients, manage relationships, resolve conflict, and lead with judgment. For you as young lawyers, learning to negotiate well is learning how to think strategically, communicate persuasively, and find solutions in moments that will shape your clients, your relationships, and your career.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
11 A.M. - 1 P.M.