Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic

Catalog description

The Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (the "ELC") combines business law issues, intellectual property, and transactional experiential learning. The ELC explores the lawyer's role as counsel to entrepreneurs engaged in early-stage ventures. Students will survey the legal and business issues encountered by entrepreneurs and develop the practical skills necessary to effectively represent them, including client interviewing and counseling, entity formation and planning, governance issues, employee issues, intellectual property analysis (except patents [presently]), and contract drafting. Students will work on actual client matters approved by the ELC's Supervising Attorney. Students must have the Supervising Attorney's permission to enroll, and they must satisfy the Requisites listed below. The Clinic is graded and enrollment is limited. Credit Hour : 1-4 Corequisites: LAW 5280 - Professional Responsibility Recommended: LAW 5395 -Business Organizations