History

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HISTORY

The Center for Advanced Due Diligence Studies, a student run academic organization, was founded by Professor Gary M. Lawrence. In 1991, Professor Lawrence developed a formal due diligence training program for attorneys, investors, investment advisors, investment stewards, directors, underwriters and other transactional principals and professionals. The following year ALM, a leading legal publisher, asked Professor Lawrence to expand the program’s training manual into a formal treatise. After two more years of intensive research and academic collaboration, the first comprehensive due diligence treatise, Due Diligence in Business Transactions, was published. That work is now approaching its third decade of publication. Today, Professor Lawrence works with students to enhance due diligence and transactional scholarship and practice through teaching, training, writing and speaking and through the activities of the Center for Advanced Due Diligence Studies.