Students will work with owners of limited liability companies (LLCs) to help them understand and come into compliance with their legal obligations. Small business owners and entrepreneurs form LLCs to protect themselves and their businesses from lawsuits and other business risks. But these protections only apply if the LLC complies with certain rules that many business owners are not aware of or do not have the resources to follow. Students will work through an interactive checklist with small business owners to review LLC governance practices and other obligations. Students then will prepare documents and provide counseling that will help position the small business for success. Students will lead the meetings but will be second-chaired by practicing attorneys who are recent graduates of Texas Law.
Organization
Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Small Business Wellness Project is an internal collaborative project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program and the Texas Law Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic. This Pilot Small Business Wellness Project will be conducted in partnership with Economic Growth Business Income Incubator (EGBI). EGBI provides training, coaching, and support to aspiring and existing business owners who are traditionally underserved and face barriers to growing a successful business.
Project Details
- Project Start Date
Wednesday October 13 and Friday October 22
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 10 hours, including training; Project dates: Wednesday, October 13, 6pm-8pm (Intake Clinic) AND Friday, October 22, 1:30pm-3:30pm (Work Session); students must attend both the Intake Clinic and the Work Session, as well as be available for an exit meeting with their assigned client during the week of October 25 or November 1 that will be scheduled at a time convenient for clients and students
- Training
- Friday, October 8, 1:30pm-3:30pm (TNH 2.123)
- Skills used
- Client interviewing; document preparation/review
- Project location
- TNH 2.138 (Work Session) and Virtual (Intake Clinic and Exit Meetings)
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 10
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Previous immigration law experience helpful; foreign language skills (Lingala, French, Spanish, Haitian Creole) are preferred but not required; students who do not speak the same language as the applicant they are working with will have access to a translation service
- To Apply
- Register at https://transactionalf21.eventbrite.com