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:

❖ Radical real estate law: How to form a housing cooperative, real estate cooperative, or nonprofit housing? 
❖ 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?
❖ Worker Self Directed Nonprofits:  How can you run your nonprofit organization more like a worker-owned cooperative?

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. If you need Spanish Language or American Sign Language interpretation, please email Hope ([email protected]) with Subject Line "Interpretation Request - for [mm/dd/yyyy] event." We will do our best to accommodate your request.

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 and your partners 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]!

 

Only one person per group needs to RSVP.

WHEN
November 10, 2022 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm PST
WHERE
Online via Zoom
Oakland, CA
United States
Google map and directions
CONTACT
Hope ·

Will you come?


Showing 11 reactions

  • Torben Umeda
    rsvped 2022-10-20 16:29:18 -0700
  • Laurie Hall
    rsvped 2022-10-20 14:14:10 -0700
  • Eneshal Miller
    rsvped 2022-10-19 21:16:38 -0700
  • Joseph Stramondo
    rsvped 2022-10-19 11:24:20 -0700
  • Charlotte Kaufman
    rsvped 2022-10-19 07:33:21 -0700
  • Justin Shepherd
    rsvped 2022-10-18 17:02:38 -0700
  • Jean Cadwell
    rsvped 2022-10-18 16:51:19 -0700
  • Claire deVroede
    rsvped 2022-10-18 12:37:50 -0700
  • Fyodor Ovchinnikov
    rsvped 2022-10-13 23:40:38 -0700
  • Dawn Valentine
    canceled rsvp 2022-09-21 09:52:48 -0700
  • Dawn Valentine
    rsvped 2022-09-21 08:23:11 -0700

Thanks to our Partners and Collaborators: