Online Legal Cafe

The Sustainable Economies Law Center provides direct legal support to individuals and groups who are working to create new solutions for resilient local economies. The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe provides sliding-scale donation-based legal advice, via Zoom, by appointment. 

If you need advice about starting a worker-owned cooperative, converting an existing business into a cooperative, organizing a housing cooperative, founding a nonprofit or other social enterprise, please RSVP below! Here are some questions we will be prepared to answer:

✅ Legal formation for small businesses: What are the regulations and requirements to have your organization legally function?
✅ Legal entity choice: Should your org be a for profit, non-profit, and which legal entity fits best with your vision?
✅ Employment law: Whether you're an employer, employee, or a cooperative, we can answer questions on how to prevent or resolve issues?
✅ Tax law: What are the ways to receive tax exemption for your org?
✅ Contracts: Contract review, drafting, and negotiation
✅ Liability issues: What are your governance requirements to avoid liability?
✅ Environmental Law: Do you have questions about how to create more green spaces for your community? 

Note: We especially encourage Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities to RSVP. We focus on cooperatives, participatory or democratic nonprofits, land trusts, and mutual aid groups.

Keep an eye out for an e-mail when you RSVP. The e-mail will have your appointment slot, instructions on how to attend our Legal Cafe remotely, and an intake form that we need you to fill out.

Format: You and/or your group will be paired with a lawyer for 30-45 minutes to get answers to questions about entity formation, contracts, governance, and more! Since we're based in Oakland, our event times are listed as Pacific Standard Time.

Got any questions? E-mail [email protected]!

WHEN
November 05, 2020 at 5:00pm - 7:30pm PST
WHERE
Online via Zoom
Oakland, CA
United States
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CONTACT
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