Community Enterprise Law Clinic
Operating like a small private law firm, this clinic will provide students interested generally in business law practice and/or in specializing in affordable housing and community development law with practical skills training in many of the core skills required in any transactional legal practice, including interviewing, counseling, drafting and negotiation. Under the supervision of the clinical faculty, students will represent low-income entrepreneurs, as well as a wide variety of nonprofit organizations engaged in community development activities. In their cases, students will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of legal matters for their clients. These may include entity formation (both for-profit and nonprofit); obtaining tax-exempt status for nonprofit clients and providing ongoing tax compliance counseling; negotiating and drafting contracts; and representing clients in community development transactions. All enrolled students will be required to provide a minimum of 125 hours of legal work per semester and to participate in weekly group training meetings. Students must be in at least their fourth semester of law school to enroll in the clinic.
Clinics Enrollment Policy
IMPORTANT: This course may not be dropped after the first class meeting.
Students must attend an all-day intensive orientation session usually held at the beginning of the semester.
Please note that course organization and content may vary substantially from semester to semester and descriptions are not necessarily professor specific. Please contact the instructor directly if you have particular course-related questions.
Sections/Instructors
Andrew Foster
Community Enterprise Law Clinic 427.02
Spring 2010
Andrew Foster
Community Enterprise Law Clinic 427.01
Fall 2009
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*INTENSIVE CLINIC ORIENTATION: Friday, September 4, 2009, 10 am - 6 pm, Room 4045*