Many Wisconsin neighborhood entrepreneurs have great business ideas and passion yet cannot afford to hire a private business attorney. Build is a site designed to support those entrepreneurs. It was created in part through a grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, and it is managed by Marquette University Law School’s Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic.
The Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic is a clinical program at Marquette University Law School, entirely funded by donations to the Law School’s Annual Fund. It operates as an independent law office staffed by a director and law students. Clinic students receive rigorous, practical training in transactional law as they counsel entrepreneurial clients under the close supervision of the director.
The clinic serves neighborhood entrepreneurs as well as emerging, potentially high-growth companies in southeastern Wisconsin, focusing on people who lack access to the legal marketplace. Clients receive pro bono legal counsel in business entity formation and governance, financing, contracts, employment law, licensing and permitting, commercial leasing, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, and other transactional matters.
