Boston College Law School gives its students a wide range of classes to take that are taught by some of the best scholars in the field. Yet, while learning about the law in a classroom is crucial to becoming a successful attorney, nothing prepares you for day-to-day practice more than getting hands-on experience before graduating. That’s where BC Law’s clinics come in.

Law students in their second and third years of study can apply for coveted spots in any of the school’s fifteen clinics. No matter what someone’s legal interest is, there’s a clinic for them! To help students better understand the opportunities available to them, the BC Law Impact Blog is highlighting each of these clinics this semester. Here is our interview with the director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic, Sandy Tarrant.

Tell us about your clinic!

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic (EIC) is a transactional clinic where students represent very early-stage businesses on transactional matters. Working under my supervision, students provide a range of business law, intellectual property, and transactional services to operating businesses and founders hoping to start them. Our clients include technology entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, brick and mortar businesses, nonprofit organizations and, from time to time, artists of different types. Often, some clients are Boston College student entrepreneurs! These clients come to us with legal needs ranging from entity formation, governance matters, and trademark applications, to contract drafting and negotiation, regulatory compliance, and asset purchases and sales.

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