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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 2009/2010, students wishing to work in this 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, Director of the Center and Clinical Professor of Law: bprice@law.harvard.edu; (617)390-2594
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