Advanced Small Business Legal Clinic

Advanced Small Business Legal Clinic - Professor Susan Felstiner

• Course Number: LAW-793
• Course Type: Highly Specialized & Experiential
• Credits: 1-4
• Enrollment Limit: 2 students
• Description:  Advanced Small Business Legal Clinic (SBLC) is available to students who have completed the business or patent SBLC course. Under the supervision of the clinical professor, advanced interns take the lead role in the representation of low-income, small, and emerging businesses and nonprofit organizations and serve as mentors for SBLC interns.

  Below is the number of hours per week interns would need to work at the SBLC over the13 week semester for the corresponding number of credits:

  1 credit = 52 hours, divided by 13 weeks is 4 hours/week

  2 credits = 94 hours, divided by 13 weeks is about 7.2 hours/week

  3 credits = 130 hours, divided by 13 weeks is 10 hours/week.

  4 credits = 182 hours, divided by 13 weeks is 14 hours/week.

• Registration Restrictions:  By permission of the clinical professor. Please contact Prof. Susan Felstiner at sfelstiner@lclark.edu or Dan Housely at danhousely@lclark.edu.
• Additional Information:  The SBLC website has additional information about the SBLC. The SBLC’s address is 333 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 400, Portland, Oregon 97204.
• Prerequisite: Small Business Legal Clinic or Small Business Legal Clinic Patent Program
• Evaluation Method: Representation of clients, attendance, seminar participation, and written assignments
• Capstone: no
• WIE: yes