CCEI Traction Workshop: Legal Basics for Startups

​About the Workshop

​In this session, you will learn about three general topics affecting new businesses. First, we'll walk through "Choice of Entity and Governance Documents," to help you determine what type of legal entity you would operate your business through—whether it’s a partnership, corporation, limited liability company, non-profit, or a host of other potential options—and then learn about the required regulatory filings and operating documents needed for each type. Next, we'll review some key issues in governance, which will teach you about the duties of founders to other co-founders, investors, and interested third parties. Finally, we'll discuss "Legal Audit," which will be more interactive and walk you through how to conduct a regulatory and contractual audit for a business. 

​Led by Casey Faucon 

​Casey Faucon is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law where she is the Director of the new Transactional Law Clinic. She and her law Student Attorneys provide pro bono transactional legal services and counseling to entrepreneurs, small businesses, creatives, student and professional athletes, non-profits, and community development organizations. Prof. Faucon was previously the founding Director of the Entrepreneurship & Nonprofit Clinic at the University of Alabama School of Law. She has a B.A. from Rice University in Houston, TX, a J.D. from LSU Law, and an LLM from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she served as a Hastie Fellow. She also received an LL.M. in Clinical Pedagogy from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she served as the Whiting Clinical Fellow in the Community Economic Development Clinic.