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Small Business Legal Clinic (SBLC)

The Small Business Legal Clinic (SBLC) had an outstanding year.

The Small Business Legal Clinic (SBLC) had an outstanding year. In addition to the excellent legal work that our dedicated students, staff attorneys, and pro bono attorneys provided to our awesome clients and celebrating Jacob McCormack ’22 as our Pro Bono Attorney of the Year, SBLC also produced a series of educational videos designed to help prospective franchisees understand franchise ownership. Over the years, the SBLC frequently received calls from people who spent their life savings to buy a franchise, only to discover that the franchise agreement was not what they were led to believe. Often, these folks speak English as a second language. With support from Washington County’s Economic Development Capacity Building Grant, SBLC intern Arlette Lozano Villega ’25 created the videos in English and Spanish, and English with subtitles in Vietnamese (translation by Tracey Nguyen ’27) Arabic (translation by Aziz Alsaid ’25), Russian, Ukrainian, and Dari. You can find them on the law school’s YouTube channel.

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