General Description:
Provides law students with practical experience in transactional law while offering valuable legal services without charge to local startup businesses lacking access to legal resources. Enrollment priority is given to third year law students. The ELC professor may set forth additional requirements to ensure that students are qualified to provide services to ELC clients. 3-4 credits, letter graded.
The Clinic acts as a law firm for its clients' business related legal matters. As a prerequisite, a student must take three courses within the areas of corporate law, agency, tax, securities, intellectual property, transactional drafting, or transactional law. Clinic students work in teams of two under the supervision of local attorneys. Each team counsels several clients during the academic year. Students draft documents and memorandum on behalf of their clients. Each week students engage in a roundtable discussion where they present and analyze issues related to their client matters. Student attorneys' work in the Clinic is graded.
In addition to work on behalf of clients, student attorneys read materials on topics salient to entrepreneurial law. On a weekly basis, student attorneys also participate in seminar discussions with local attorneys and entrepreneurs. The seminar component focuses on issues that transactional attorneys frequently address in working with entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Finally, in addition to client work, each student team completes a project that focuses on the local entrepreneurial community. Representative projects include presenting legal issues to underserved entrepreneurs, researching ethical issues related to transactional practice, and drafting agreements for use by professors who teach classes in which startups are formed.
Select Term:
LAWS 7619-801
Instructor(s):
J. Brad Bernthal
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Trish Rogers
Meeting Times & Locations:
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Tue |
4:00 PM - 6:50 PM |
WLAW 300 |
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