Last Friday I had lunch with Jay Christipher, co-founder and President of "The Pampered Chef" (a $100 million dollars a year business). The purpose of lunch was to discuss curriculum issues at V.U. CBA. However, what is most pertinate to your situation is Jay's re-action to my statement that many deans consider Business Law/Legal Environment inappropreate areas of study in a business curriculum and eliminate those courses when ever they can. Jay's comment when something like this "That's the stupidest think I've ever heard. Most of my problems involve legal issues, if I'm not familair with the law I'm dead." For what it is worth this is one CEO's opinion. Jack Hires Valparaiso Univ. CBA