Entrepreneurship Law Center Clinic
The Entrepreneurship Law Center Clinic (E-Law Center Clinic) will provide legal services to entrepreneurs and startups who are not yet ready or able to engage outside legal counsel.
Students will work with diverse companies who are confronting a variety of business challenges specific to startups and early stage high-growth ventures. The e-Law Center Clinic will focus on four primary objectives in servicing student and faculty businesses and high-growth ventures.
Experiential Learning: Students can expect to be challenged in experiential learning while developing critical thinking and practical research, drafting and client management skills. Student will be expected to demonstrate: critical thinking and judgment; service orientation with clients; communication; and practice orientation.
Matthew Pelkey
Director of Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
Clinical Legal Education
Jordan Walbesser
Staff Attorney
Clinical Legal Education
Erin Gromley
Staff Attorney
Clinical Legal Education
Artificial Intelligence
As the use of artificial intelligence increases student attorneys in the Entrepreneurship Law Center Clinic, will learn to adapt to the ever changing landscape in both business and law. While working with clients that utilize AI in their businesses, students will learn how to adapt and what they can add in value beyond what AI tools can provide.
Student attorneys will also advise start-ups developing AI tools on the legal risks that can result from machine learning models - including data privacy, discrimination and bias, and intellectual property rights when deploying these tools in the marketplace.
Matthew Pelkey, Director of the Entrepreneurship Law Center Clinic, and members of the SUNY Office of General Counsel, Mairead Jones-Kennelly (center) and Hannah Hage (right), discuss the intersection of AI and the law at SUNY's AI Symposiusm held April 8th and 9th at UB.
