Business, Law
& Technology Clinic (5 credits)
Jonathan Ezor, Professor of Law
Touro's Business Technology Law Clinic allows students to
work in private law firms and corporate law departments with a
focus on intellectual property, e-commerce, licensing and joint
ventures, privacy, and general corporate law, while examining
the professional, ethical, personal, and financial pressures
inherent in the practice of law. The clinic is designed to give
students insight into law practice representing
technology-enabled organizations; to provide hands-on experience
in the varied and complex skills required to practice law; and
to emphasize the importance of counseling and planning to a
successful professional career. Their experiences enable them to
begin to set for themselves standards of professional skill and
demeanor, as well as client and colleague relationships.
Clinic students work twelve (12) to fifteen (15) each week
and attend a three-hour weekly seminar. Each student works with
an experienced attorney supervisor who acts as a mentor, guiding
the novice and encouraging his/her transformation to a lawyer
with professional skills and values. Because participation in
this clinic allows exploration of a potential career choice, a
student may request a preferred type of practice setting or
substantive area of law. Students' responsibilities are as
varied as the offices they join, and may include attending court
proceedings, business transactions and closings; interviewing,
negotiating, and counseling; preparing government filings; and
researching and drafting documents for litigation.
The weekly seminar provides instruction into the relevant
substantive law the students need, as well as a forum for
exchanging experiences and thoughts about practicing law and
about professional identity. While experienced lawyers with
varied types of practices and responsibilities bring their
insights and experience to seminar classes, students explore
those same issues through a weekly journal.
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