UNC Law School is the perfect catalyst for me to begin my legal studies in Business Law and Legal Writing, but it is also a platform that will allow me to continue to expand my ability to work with non-profit organizations through the programs offered there. There are three programs I am extremely interested in being apart of and contributing my experiences in order to expand the programs reach. The programs are the Transition-to-Practice Program, the Externship Program, and the Pro Bono Program because each program allows students to get real-life experience in the legal field while still in law school to help prepare them for a career in Law.
First, the Transition-to-Practice program allows students in upper-level courses to go from learning about legal fields to being able to actually do work in these legal fields. There is an Advanced Bankruptcy course, Law 463, taught by Melissa Jacoby who specializes in Commercial law, Bankruptcy Law and Social Service. This course interests me because students get to substantiate client letters, write cash collateral motions and create wiki terms that corporate lawyers can use. I would love to
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The fact that UNC Law allows their students to offer high-quality free legal services to North Carolina residents in need is extremely important to me. Dean Martin H. Brinkley teaches Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Commercial Law and there is a course he teaches that I would love to take. This Dean has offered Pro Bono Council to non-profit intuitions with charitable missions which is Law 512. This course is actually part of the transition-to-practice program in which you learn about the life cycle of the M&A deal but the chance to study corporate law with Brinkley who has done quite a bit of non-profit work would be instrumental to growing and nurturing my legal studies, career, and insight on non-profit