Students will assist with clinic operations and shadow attorneys as they provide advice and counsel to local start-ups and entrepreneurs. Texas C-Bar is co-sponsoring the Austin Entrepreneurship Clinic with Tech Ranch, MWR Legal, and Lift Fund.
Organization
Texas C-Bar
Texas C-Bar works to improve the quality of life for low-income populations in Texas by providing pro bono business law resources to nonprofits and microentrepreneurs. C-Bar provides pro bono referrals and direct services to nonprofits and microentrepreneurs for non-litigation legal matters; offers legal workshops, on-line resources, and publications on important legal issues affecting nonprofits and microentrepreneurs; and collaborates with strategic partners to address systemic legal barriers to community development in low-income communities.
Project Details
- Project Date
Thursday, September 17
- Project Time
- 5:30pm-8pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 2.5 hours including training
- Training
- Training will be provided on-site immediately before the clinic
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/intake; community education; observe small business counseling
- Project location
- Tech Ranch, 8920 Business Park Drive, Suite 250
- Address
- 4920 N. IH-35, Austin, TX 78751
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 5
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu