LAW996

Satisfies Experiential Learning Requirement. Students in the clinic serve as outside counsel for social enterprise businesses (both for-profit and nonprofit organizations) that have a social or environmental mission as a core aspect of their business. Students advise their clients on a variety of corporate governance, regulatory compliance, contract drafting and analysis, and entity formationmatters. Through their client work, students gain experience as business attorneys and develop transactional lawyering skills such as strategic planning, project management, client interviewing and counseling, legal research and analysis, contract drafting, and cross-cultural competencies. Students work collaboratively with their clients to help them minimize risks and avoid pitfalls as they achieve their social impact and business goals. Students are encouraged to grapple with and develop their own perspectives about how lawyers can best participate in the growing social enterprise sector and how transactional law can advance issues of economic and social justice.Admission to the clinic requires the prior approval of the instructor. Interested students should contact Professor Alina Ball at balla@uchastings.edu. Apply through the online Common Clinic Application.