Tech Startup Clinic

Catalog description

The Tech Startup Clinic is a semester-long transactional clinic that will provide legal advice and assistance to growing technology ventures. The clinic will assist clients with a variety of legal matters, including entity formation, seed and angel funding, intellectual property issues, commercialization strategies, and operational and employment issues. Participants will guide startups through various legal issues that growing companies face. Through clinical work, participants will gain hands-on experience working with startups and will draft formation documents, intellectual property assignment and licensing agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and early stage financing agreements. The clinic will reinforce hands-on experience with a weekly seminar. During the seminar, the clinic will teach participants practical lawyering skills such as interviewing and contract drafting conventions. Beyond clinical and classroom work, the clinic will help participants join and shape the growing New York tech community. Participants will attend and present at tech meetups, engage with potential clients, create online resources for entrepreneurs, and release legal guides on emerging technologies such as 3D printing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cryptocurrencies. In house clinic.