Past Student Practice

Housing Foreclosures

• Conducting research and drafting a report on working with community groups to prevent foreclosures as well as to purchase properties post foreclosure for shared community ownership and uses, including forming public-private partnerships to create and expand community land trust.
  
  
• The Clinic has subsequently identified and established working relationships with groups that are interested in the type of work outlined in the report.

Counseling Nonprofits

• Counseling a national nonprofit, that organizes and provides services to low-wage workers, on structuring its relationship with future affiliates in different states.
  
  
• Counseling a local Queens nonprofit, that organizes the South Asian community to increase civic participation, on applying for tax exemption and on various board development issues.

Incorporations

• Incorporating, drafting bylaws and applying for tax exemption for an arts organization created to promote and increase community access to the arts.

Drafting Client Documents

• Drafting an employer guide outlining the benefits of and considerations when hiring those who have been formerly incarcerated.
  
  
• Drafting and negotiating construction contracts and commercial leases, under the supervision of attorneys in the CED unit of Brooklyn Legal Services, Corporation A.

Wage and Hour Claims

• Supporting organizational clients by providing their members with litigation support under the supervision of attorneys in the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center.