 Hi, I'm Katie Ahern, I'm the Director of the Business Startup Clinic here at Roger Williams University School of Law. The BSU Clinic is our transactional clinic, transactional generally meaning that we don't participate in litigation or court hearings. Instead, we help small businesses and nonprofit organizations with their transactional matters. This is an A-credit clinic. There is a prerequisite required. You have to take a business organizations class before you take the clinic. And there is like the other clinics that class component as well as your experiential component. So on the class side you're learning substantive legal issues like a little brush up on contracts, you do interviewing training, you do counseling training, we discuss ethics, we discuss business entities and nonprofit organizations for example to build on the work that you've had in law school up until that point. Our clients are generally small businesses usually entrepreneurs who are just getting started but we do work with nonprofit organizations as well. And we help them with a variety of work. So for example, we often have entrepreneurs that will come to us and want to know what type of business should I form. Is it a corporation? Is it an LLC? How do I make that decision? And we counsel them through that decision making process in addition to helping them actually form those different entities if that applies. We help them with contracts as well and we also help with intellectual property work. Our clinic is part of the U.S. Patent Trademark Office clinic program and so our students are able to work with clients directly on intellectual property matters. We also partner with a faculty member, faculty advisor who is an intellectual property practitioner out in the community and who works directly with our students as well. We also do nonprofit work. So for the nonprofit clients, we help them with nonprofit specific work but also general business work that applies to all sorts of organizations and is also applicable to nonprofits. We also are out in the community doing other types of work. So for example, students will generally do presentations in the community for nonprofits whose clients are similar to ours. So nonprofits who serve entrepreneurial clients, the students will go out and give presentations and that's designed to help those folks spot issues, legal issues that they should be worried about in their business sooner before it becomes a stumbling block for those businesses. Again, similar to the other type of clinics, it is an eight credit course which means students who generally plan to spend 20 to 30 hours per week in the clinic and you should be physically present in the clinic two days a week so you should keep that in mind when planning your schedule. We also participate in other types of activities as the opportunities arise. So for example, some nonprofits have entrepreneurial competitions or other events that we will attend and those vary based on the semester and what is going on in the community.