Visiting Clinical Professor, Entrepreneurship Law Clinic (New York City) - Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech

Founded in 1887, Cornell Law School is a top-tier law school, currently ranked 13th by U.S. News & World Report. We offer a 3-year JD program for about 200 students per class, a one-year LLM program for about 120 students from countries throughout the world, and a doctoral (JSD) program for about 2-3 new students per year. Cornell Law School has 41 tenured and tenure-track faculty, including 20 with chaired faculty positions; and 15 clinical professors in the Lawyering Program and in clinics at the local, national, and international level. Our faculty is consistently ranked among the top in the country for scholarly productivity and influence and has pre-eminence in many areas, including quantitative and qualitative empirical legal studies, international and comparative law, and robust doctrinal scholarship in core fields. Our school is committed to being recognized as the leader among law schools at combining inspiring theoretical, doctrinal, and experiential teaching with cutting-edge scholarship in a supportive, intellectually rich community, so that our graduates can achieve excellence in all facets of the legal profession.

Cornell Tech is a revolutionary model for graduate education that fuses technology with business and creative thinking. Cornell Tech brings together like-minded faculty, business leaders, tech entrepreneurs and students in a catalytic environment to produce visionary ideas grounded in significant needs that will reinvent the way we live. Cornell Tech focuses on creating pioneering leaders and technologies for the digital age, through research, technology commercialization, and graduate-level education at the professional masters, doctoral and postdoctoral levels. Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech partner on the Law, Technology & Entrepreneurship Program, which offers JD and Master's of Law students a unique environment to learn the skills to become a successful lawyer and counselor for technology companies and ventures.

The ELC provides pro bono transactional legal services to entrepreneurs and startup businesses who are not yet ready or able to engage paid legal counsel, but who need assistance setting the legal foundation for their businesses. The expansion of the ELC represents Cornell Law School's commitment to community-engaged learning and partnerships throughout New York state. The ELC's clients include both for-profit and non-profit businesses that are poised to create jobs, contribute to community economic development, and promote innovation. Some clients are local in their focus, and others have the potential to have an impact far beyond New York state. Law students working in the ELC gain practical experience in a variety of substantive legal areas including business structuring and entity formation, intellectual property, employment, immigration, finance and commercial contracts.

The successful candidate's responsibilities will include the following:

• Teach the seminar component for the New York City section(s) of the introductory and/or advanced ELC, focusing on both substantive business law and legal skills such as contract drafting and client relations. Depending on the successful applicant's level of experience, the teaching load may also include one corporate law class in the Law, Technology & Entrepreneurship Program.
• Manage ongoing client engagements and supervise students' client work, ensuring that the work is done in a timely and professional manner.
• Develop resources to support the ELC's engagement with the local community, including workshops, presentations and standard forms.
• Participate in defining the focus of the ELC's and the Blassberg-Rice Center's work, including by responding to inquiries from potential clients and selecting clients to work with the ELC.
• Help maintain relationships with law firms and other organizations that support the ELC.
• Engage with the regional and national clinical legal education communities.
• Engage with the Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School faculties and programs via committee work and other efforts to continue to develop these programs.

Qualifications: JD and admission to the New York bar (or eligibility for admission on motion to the New York bar). A successful candidate must have a minimum of five years' relevant practice experience, excellent supervisee- and client-management skills, the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced law practice environment, and a track record of forming positive professional relationships. Prior law school teaching or clinical teaching experience is strongly preferred.

To Apply:

To ensure maximum consideration, please submit all application materials by February 28, 2025. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with priority given to early applicants.

Pay Range:

$58,300 - $237,300

Pay Range:

Pay Ranges:

The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

• Prior relevant work or industry experience.
• Education level to the extent education is relevant to the position.
• Academic Discipline
• Unique applicable skills.

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