Small Business Program
Students in the Small Business Program will, under faculty supervision, counsel clients while enhancing the Small Business Program’s two main services:
- Legal Checkups; and
- Entity Formations.
Performing these client services may include:
- Analyzing business plans for law-related opportunities and
risks;
- Communicating the opportunities and risks to the client;
- Reviewing client agreements;
- Helping clients identify and protect their intellectual property;
- Drafting the Articles of Incorporation for a company that
is being formed;
- Researching federal and state securities laws; and
- Preparing a company’s initial corporate resolutions.
Students will also help build and improve the “platform” that will support current and future clients and students. Platform-building projects, which usually involve both substantive and practice-related issues, may include:
- Drafting and editing form documents and memos;
- Improving the Small Business Program’s website content;
- Developing other marketing materials;
- Building awareness about the Small Business Program; and,
- Helping the Small Business Program build strategic relationships.
Students may visit the Small
Business Program’s website for more information.
Professor Jeff Thomas supervises the Small Business Program in
addition to teaching Legal Aspects of Startups (a related course).
Professor Thomas has counseled small businesses as an attorney
in private practice (at firms in Chicago and Silicon Valley) and
as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University School
of Law’s Small Business Opportunity Center. Professor Thomas
is a graduate of the University of Michigan Business School and
Harvard Law School. Students with questions may contact Professor
Thomas at jthomas@kentlaw.edu.
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