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Session Type: Lightning Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: N/A

Room: Franciscan B

Floor: Ballroom Level

This lightning session will discuss teaching methods that help law students become future leaders of the legal community and be “complete” lawyers, which means working with different sectors of the community and helping to facilitate collaboration. In the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center, students, through extensive interaction with clients and the broader entrepreneurship community, develop transactional, networking, and client management skills necessary to succeed as a corporate or transactional attorney as well as a community leader. In order to train lawyers that go beyond just having excellent transactional skills, we have created a comprehensive program that includes live client representation, attending and organizing community networking events, conducting legal workshops on important legal topics, holding office hours, and presenting to their classmates on “hot topic” cutting edge legal issues. In addition to having three Northwestern clinicians speak, we will have the managing partner of Venable LLP, who is widely considered a community leader, give his perspective on what law school clinical education in this area is doing right and where there is room for improvement.