Course Details

Description:

The Clinic is a two-semester, six-credit experience for 3Ls. Experienced business law attorneys from several law firms supervise two-person teams of law students working with clinic clients.

Clinic clients are owners of small start-up and emerging businesses. They need legal representation related to entity formation, compliance, and agreements, including employment documents. The clinic does not represent clients in any kind of business dispute.

The Business Law Clinic does not take clients without a referral from one of its partners — the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, the Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers, the Small Business Administration Veterans Services Program, the Carlson School of Management’s Business Hatchery and Entrepreneurship in Action classes, and other entities internal to the University of Minnesota.

The course component of the clinic covers client-centered interviewing, deal-making negotiation, and drafting readable documents.

Please note: Students who take Professor Alton’s Transactional Lawyering Skills class in the summer may not enroll in the clinic because the curriculum component of this class is identical to the clinic curriculum.

The Business Law Clinic is a program component of the Corporate Institute.