In a region famous for billion-dollar startups and tech giants, it can be easy to forget that many entrepreneurs are just trying to get a foothold—figuring out how to form an LLC, draft a contract, or navigate financing documents, often without a strong professional network. That’s where Stanford Law School’s new Entrepreneurship Clinic comes in.
The clinic launched this spring under the leadership of Professor Bernice Grant, who joined Stanford Law School in 2024 from Fordham Law School, where she founded a similar clinic that focused on underserved business owners. Stanford Law’s only clinic focused exclusively on transactional work, the Entrepreneurship Clinic gives students hands-on counseling experience while providing free legal support to early-stage entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and small-business owners who would not be able to afford a startup lawyer.
“There’s no better place to have a clinic for law and entrepreneurship than Stanford Law School, where we can leverage the vast resources of Silicon Valley and build on the entrepreneurship energy that pervades so much of life here,” says Grant, a former Certified Public Accountant. “There are so many brilliant founders out there, often with these groundbreaking ideas, who simply don’t have access to lawyers.”
And the benefits of the clinic run both ways.
“Our students are getting exposed to a remarkably broad range of legal issues,” Grant says. “In a single week, they might apply what they’ve learned in contracts,...
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