Career Highlights
General
Counsel
Partner
Professor
Treasurer & Head of
Investor Relations
Partner
Partner
Academic Credentials
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Business
Administration
Doctor of Jurisprudence
Today’s General Counsel must be more than a legal advisor—you’re expected to be a strategic partner, governance leader, and business thinker. These courses sharpen the financial and strategic skills essential to that expanded role, giving you the tools to engage confidently with the board, influence enterprise decisions, and lead with clarity and impact.
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Includes:This is the full Chaka Strategy system — built to support you across roles, companies, and career stages.
As Deputy General Counsel, your role increasingly demands more than legal expertise. These courses provide a solid foundation in accounting, financial analysis, capital markets, and business strategy—enhancing your ability to contribute to strategic decision-making, support sound governance, and serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.
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Today’s legal employers expect more than technical excellence — they want lawyers who understand business drivers, financial realities, and organizational strategy. This vertical gives law students an early advantage by building the business skills most lawyers don’t learn until much later. You’ll develop foundational financial literacy, strategic decision-making abilities, and the capacity to analyze legal issues through a business lens. You’ll also begin shaping your professional narrative so you can differentiate yourself from your peers and enter the marketplace with clarity and momentum.
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Legal advisors today must speak the language of business. This vertical builds the financial and strategic literacy every modern lawyer needs — covering core finance and accounting concepts, financial statement analysis, and how to read key investor disclosures like the 10-K and proxy statements. You’ll learn to interpret company performance, understand valuation and risk, and connect business drivers to legal decision-making. This leads to sharper insights, stronger judgment, and the confidence to operate at the intersection of law, finance, and strategy.
Complete Professional Library. Everything. One system. One investment.
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Understanding how money moves through a company is no longer optional for legal and business advisors. The Finance Essentials vertical builds practical fluency in the financial concepts that drive corporate performance and decision-making. You’ll learn the fundamentals of valuation, capital structure, cash flow, financial metrics, and how markets assess company health and risk. These insights equip you to anticipate financial implications, ask sharper questions, and provide advice grounded in the economic realities of the business. Finance Essentials gives you the toolkit to operate confidently in any boardroom, deal room, or strategic conversation.
Complete Professional Library. Everything. One system. One investment.
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Chaka Patterson is a distinguished legal and business leader with over 30 years of experience spanning corporate, government, and private practice. He has served as Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations for a Fortune 100 company, General Counsel of a Fortune 1000 company, and partner at leading AmLaw 50 firms. With a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chaka is known for delivering strategic value well beyond legal advice. Today, he coaches legal professionals on how to elevate their impact, accelerate their careers, and become indispensable business partners.
“Chaka has an exceptional ability to help senior legal leaders refine how they think, communicate, and lead at the intersection of law and business. His coaching challenged me to elevate from providing legal advice to driving strategic insight — to think in terms of valuation, capital allocation, and shareholder impact. He helped me sharpen how I engage with the board and executive team, ensuring every conversation connects legal strategy to business performance. Chaka’s depth of experience, practical wisdom, and results-oriented approach have made me a more confident and effective C-suite leader.”
