The Startup Legal Garage provides free legal resources to startups through our program at the Center for Innovation at UC Hastings Law School in San Francisco. We assign each participating startup to a legal team consisting of a supervising attorney from a major intellectual property or corporate law firm and two law students from UC Hastings. We also work with in-house counsel in emerging startups with new legal services by sending them students to practice how in-house counsel serve their clients. Our clients come from countless innovative industries across the country and in the heart of Silicon Valley, but they each have a technical component that makes them unique. Professor Paul Belonick serves his community by supporting early-stage startups and teaching students at UCLA and UC Hastings College of Law through UC Hastings College of Law`s Startup Legal Garage program, founded by Professor Robin Feldman in 2010. Belonick is the director of Startup Legal Garage, an innovative program in which law students do legal work for young tech and biotech startups. The work is supervised free of charge by external law firms, while the professors teach teaching and accompanying skills courses. Each year, law students and supervising lawyers undertake more than 50 projects under Belonick`s direction. Most of Startup Legal Garage`s companies are born out of the program`s partnerships with numerous incubators and accelerators, including QB3, Y Combinator, Cyclotron Road, Tech Futures Group, HustleFund, Stanford Business School, Hackers/Founders, Women 2.0, Black Founders and more.
With its particular focus on advancing women entrepreneurs, Startup Legal Garage has been recognized by the Association of American Law Schools as one of its “innovative and outstanding programs” and featured in the American Bar Association Journal and other news outlets. As a lawyer, Belonick has worked at small, internationally renowned law firms in areas ranging from criminal and family law to mass crimes, securities and commercial litigation. Belonick and the Startup Legal Garage help budding entrepreneurs – especially women, minorities, disadvantaged and experienced founders – transform breakthrough ideas into stable, growing businesses that have the potential to reach millions of people with solutions to the world`s social, economic, health and countless other problems. Belonick is proud to help start-ups that solve problems through innovation across the country. The program charges no fairness and no fees. Law students come from countless backgrounds and work directly with the founders. Over the years, Belonick and the Startup Legal Garage have launched founders whose work won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, as well as hundreds of companies offering highly acclaimed products, services and solutions to the world`s biggest challenges. Belonick`s key projects over the past year include its work supporting start-ups looking to provide more credit resources to underserved communities, cure cancer, provide housing solutions for tenants and landlords, and teach law students. UC Hastings Law School Startup Legal Garage in San Francisco is now accepting applications from tech startups to receive free legal work for the fall semester of 2021. “Especially this semester,” Belonick said, “our cohort societies are curing cancer and other diseases; work on tracking fashion components to end sweatshops; develop technologies that help lawyers defend their clients and ensure clear chains of evidence; energy production from algae; degradation of plastics by microorganisms; the development of technical tools to help claimants navigate the legal process; improving access to credit, employment opportunities and health care for underserved communities; and much more. Students collaborate with life sciences startups through the Startup Legal Garage, located at UC Hastings Law School. Students provide legal services to start-ups under the supervision of lawyers from major Bay Area law firms Area.In the Startup Legal Garage:• Students assess the patent landscape for life sciences start-ups, particularly outside of UC campuses such as UCSF.
• Student fieldwork is supervised by lawyers from external law firms such as Wilson Sonsini, Cooley, Dorsey & Whitney, Goodwin Proctor, Womble Bond Dickinson and many others. • Students participate remotely in a seminar taught by UC Hastings Professor Robin Feldman. The seminar takes place on Thursdays from 13:10 to 15:10, from 20 August to mid-November. There is also a mandatory Startup Legal Garage Bootcamp from 1pm to 5pm on Sunday, August 16th (it will be recorded for those who have a excused absence from Professor Feldman). If you have any questions about the content of the seminar or boot camp, please contact Prof.