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Entrepreneurship and Community Business Clinic

Providing essential legal support to startups, small businesses, and nonprofits led by low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs.

The Entrepreneurship and Community Business Clinic provides free legal services to low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs starting or growing small businesses, start-ups and nonprofits. Our law students, under faculty supervision, help you set up your business or organization, draft contracts, protect intellectual property, navigate regulations, and handle the essential legal work needed to build a sustainable venture.

About the Clinic

Events and Resources

Illustration of overlapping business entity type labels (S-Corp, LLC, C-Corp, Sch C, Inc) around a large question mark, representing entity structure decision-making. Entity Structure Decision-Making Tool
Video still of a presenter beside a slide titled "Sanción por Clasificación" listing California worker misclassification penalties. Clasificación de trabajadores en California
Video still of a presenter beside a slide titled "Types of Zones" with a city zoning map. Navigating Commercial Leases
First page of the "ADA Guidelines & Compliance Overview for Small Businesses" handout, showing the New Business Community Law Clinic letterhead and sections on ADA physical space requirements. ADA Guidelines & Compliance Overview for Small Businesses

What Clients Are Saying

“I am so impressed with this organization.. Your organization is the only one out there that does it all. You even helped with government contracts and web site development. So I’m all in with you guys.”

— William Snyder, Snyder family farm

“The result of your business has helped me create a game plan for the future.”

— Christina Parker, Learning Through Nature

“This support and reassurance that I'm on the right track has encouraged me to keep going with starting my business.”

— Jessica Castillo, 401Care

“We are now able to launch our product publicly!”

— Ike Khurgel, Borrow’d
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