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The Business and Non-Profit Organization Clinic provides legal assistance to start-up and existing small businesses, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations and community development corporations on a wide range of legal matters. The range of services includes entity formation and choice of entity counseling; contract negotiation and preparation; corporate and commercial financing; shareholder agreements; business acquisitions and sales; commercial leasing; licensing, permitting, and zoning advice; trademark and copyright advice, registration, and intellectual property licensing; corporate governance and compliance; tax-exempt applications and various other kinds of business-related transactional legal work. In addition to serving the direct legal needs of clients, the Clinic participates in community workshops on legal issues relevant to small businesses and non-profit organizations.
Students in the Clinic have numerous opportunities throughout the semester to draft documents; research and apply legal doctrine; interview, represent and counsel clients; and engage in strategic decision-making, issue analysis and problem solving.
For academic year 2008-2009, students wishing to work in the clinic must enroll in the Transactional Practice Clinical Workshop A (fall) or B (spring).
The Business and Non-Profit Organization Clinic is part of the Center’s Community Enterprise Project Practice Group. For more information on this Clinic, contact Brian K. Price, Senior Clinical Instructor: bprice@law.harvard.edu; (617)390-2594 |
