West Virginia College of Law News & Information
WVU College of Law Clinic looking for entrepreneurs
About $250K in free legal services were offered in the first year for individuals who could not otherwise afford them
By John McVey / Journal Staff Writer
POSTED: June 7, 2009
Martinsburg, WV
MARTINSBURG – The first year of the West Virginia University Entrepreneurship Law Clinic was a success by most anyone’s standards.
“We provided about $250,000 worth of legal services for free,” Michael Risch, the clinic’s faculty director, told those attending the monthly meeting of the Eastern Panhandle Entrepreneurs Forum at the Holiday Inn in Martinsburg Thursday evening.
The clinic had clients from all over the state, he said, including one in the Eastern Panhandle. Risch is looking for more clients for the clinic to serve starting in August.
The legal services for entrepreneurs were provided by law students at the WVU College of Law under the strict supervision of the two professors, he said.
“Student lawyers help entrepreneurs with free legal services,” Risch said.
The clinic is part of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Law Program at the College of Law, he said. The program gives lawyers training in entrepreneurship law.
Through a Benedum Foundation grant, the pilot clinic included six students divided into three teams of two, and two professors, including Risch. more?
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