Business Law Center Clinical & Seminar

Catalog description

The Business Law Clinic (the "BLC") is a live client transactional legal clinic that represents for profit and not for profit businesses in the Chicagoland area. Student clinicians work with several BLC clients during the course of a semester. All work is overseen by BLC faculty. In addition to client work, the BLC includes a weekly seminar (Tuesday, 10:00am - 12:00 p.m.), which covers relevant substantive law, ethical issues and pragmatic lawyering skills, such as drafting, negotiating and client counseling. The work in the BLC is completely transactional in nature. The BLC does not handle contested matters or complex tax. Participation in the BLC requires a significant time commitment (a minimum of 3 hours per week per credit hour, in addition to the seminar), and a degree of flexibility in the student's schedule. All student clinicians are expected to communicate with their clients regularly, meet with their clients as needed, efficiently and effectively perform the related transactional work, maintain their client's files in an organized and professional manner, regularly attend the seminar classes and participate in various seminar exercises. Recommended courses, in order of preference, are Business Organizations, Federal Income Tax and Corporate & Partnership Tax. Class is limited to 14-16 students and instructor permission and an application is required. This is a Skills and Live Client Experience course.