Course Guides - Community Enterprise Clinic

Course Description

The Community Enterprise Law Clinic is a transactional clinic that provides legal counseling and representation to non-profit groups and organizations that are committed to effecting change through economic and community development in distressed communities in Greater Pittsburgh. While providing pro bono legal assistance to neighborhood and regional community non-profit organizations, clinic students acquire and sharpen a particularly valuable set of lawyering skills: client interviewing, file maintenance, effective representation before regulatory agencies, and time management. Student attorneys provide a broad range of transactional services, including preparation of incorporation documents, bylaws, registration with Bureau of Charitable Organizations, trademark application, and applications for recognition of 501 (c)(3) or 501 (c)(4) tax-exempt status. (6 credits)

Faculty Who Teach This Course

Norma M. Caquatto, Esq. (Acting Assistant Director of Clinical Legal Education and adjunct clinical professor)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:

Print Collection

KF1388-KF1390   Non-profit Corporations
KF2902   Professional Associations
KF6329  Tax Exemption
KF6449  Taxation - Income of Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Corporations, Foundations, Endowments, Pension Funds
KFP211   Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporations, Foundations, Endowments
KFP213.5  Pennsylvania Business Corporations - Incorporation - Corporate Charters and Bylaws
KFP475.7  Pennsylvania Taxation - Income of Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Corporations, Foundations, Endowments, Pension Funds

Legal Research Databases

DCLI Webpage Links

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Under Subject Area:

  • Practice Skills

Course Listed Under the following Law School Areas of Interest:

  • Academic Administration
  • Practice Skills