{"id":65,"date":"2015-05-11T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:32:07","slug":"clinics-and-practice-areas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/clinics-and-practice-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinics and Practice Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Transactional Law Clinics is organized into four\u00a0Clinics, corresponding to the TLC’s three predominant practice areas:<\/p>\n

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BUSINESS AND NON-PROFIT LAW<\/a><\/h2>\n

TLC\u2019s Business and Non-profit legal work includes such matters as business formations, investments, sales and purchases, contracts, and regulatory compliance, and nonprofit organizations\u2019 incorporation and application for tax exempt status, and governance. \u202fStudents working on such matters typically have opportunities to prepare formation documents for limited liability companies and corporations, partnership and shareholder agreements, consider aspects of both federal and state securities laws, write, review, and negotiate contracts, assess regulatory issues, and the like.<\/p>\n

REAL ESTATE LAW<\/a><\/h2>\n

TLC\u2019s Real Estate legal work includes both commercial and residential real estate matters purchases and sales of residences, condominium formation, operation and governance,\u202fcommercial leasing, zoning compliance and development of affordable housing. \u202fStudents working on such matters typically handle various aspects of residential house or condominium purchases or sales, including negotiation of sales agreements, pre-closing (sale) matters and handling closings. \u202fCommercial lease matters also sometimes arise. \u202fAnalysis of zoning compliance \u2013 often in the context of a proposed business enterprise \u2013 is also a potential clinical opportunity, as are occasional opportunities to represent clients before community zoning appeal boards.<\/p>\n

ENTERTAINMENT LAW<\/a><\/h2>\n

TLC\u2019s Entertainment legal work includes representing musicians, artists, writers, producers, managers, independent labels and publishers. Much of this work is focused on copyright and trademark law, and drafting contracts and licenses of various sorts.<\/p>\n

COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE PROJECT<\/a><\/h2>\n

The\u202fCommunity Enterprise Project (\u201cCEP\u201d)\u202f<\/a>provides an opportunity for students to undertake clinical work rooted in both community development and transactional law. CEP students will connect with community organizations, identify organizational and community legal needs, and develop comprehensive strategies to address those needs while gaining\u00a0valuable real-world transactional law experience. To this end, CEP often facilitates community workshops on legal issues relevant to small businesses, non-profit organizations, and the populations they serve.<\/p>\n

All Students<\/span><\/strong><\/span> are asked to express their preference(s) for one or more of TLC\u2019s transactional legal areas, and subject to the available client projects, students\u2019 work is generally assigned in their requested area(s) of concentration.<\/p>\n

Cutting across all\u00a0TLC legal work\u00a0are the basic themes and skills of transactional practice. \u202fStudents have numerous opportunities throughout the semester to draft documents, research and apply legal doctrine, interview, represent, and counsel clients, negotiate transactions, manage transactions, and to engage in strategic decision-making, issue analysis, and problem solving. \u202fStudents will gain firsthand experience of the practice of law, observing the differing roles and goals of lawyers, clients, and other parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Transactional Law Clinics is organized into four\u00a0Clinics, corresponding to the TLC’s three predominant practice areas: BUSINESS AND NON-PROFIT LAW TLC\u2019s Business and Non-profit legal work includes such matters as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}