Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic
- Choice of entity
- Business formation
- Organizational agreements
- Operational agreements
- Business acquisitions
- Business certification preparation (e.g., woman-owned, minority-owned, veteran-owned business)
Considerations and Restrictions
- Our legal services are provided at no cost. However, clients remain responsible for any third-party costs associated with their matter, including government filing fees, publication costs, registered agent fees, and other required expenses.
- As a public interest law clinic with limited capacity, we must make difficult decisions about how to allocate our resources. We prioritize businesses that provide products or services to the public, create economic opportunity, or otherwise contribute to their local communities. Ventures formed primarily to hold investment property or facilitate the purchase and resale of real estate generally do not fall within these priorities. Accordingly, the Clinic will generally decline requests to form real estate holding companies, shell companies for real estate investments, or entities established primarily for house-flipping or similar investment activities.
- The Clinic will not be involved in dispute resolution, whether through litigation or otherwise, nor any tax, immigration, insurance, intellectual property, or other regulatory matters. For example, the Clinic cannot advise on any zoning, permitting, or licensing matters related to your new business, nor with respect to any laws or regulations that specifically apply to any activities in which you will engage.
Our Team
All work is performed by law students under the supervision of three licensed attorneys. There are roughly 24 student interns each semester throughout the school year, and roughly 10 student interns are hired to work over the summer. Thus, the Clinic remains open full-time year-round with a brief hiatus at the close of each semester while students are in exams.
Services include choice-of-entity and formation assistance as well as contract drafting and review. Contracts tend to fall into one of two categories: organizational and operational contracts.
Organizational contract assistance includes state filings required to formally start a business and any ancillary agreements, such as operating agreements, corporate bylaws, agreements between founders, and issuance of equity.
Operational contracts are documents necessary to keep a business operating; examples include employment and independent contractor agreements, service agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, commercial leases, etc.
How to get started
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