New Nonprofit Legal Clinic Enhances Program
Indiana Law is proud to announce the addition of a new Nonprofit Legal Clinic to its clinical program. The three-credit, one semester course is offered to second- and third-year law students.
The not-for-profit arena is a burgeoning economic and legal force at the national and state level. Clinic director Cindy Lott says the Nonprofit Legal Clinic weds student professional skills development to this growing and highly visible substantive area of the law. Coursework will introduce students to the panoply of issues faced by general counsels to organizations and allow them to experience work with an organizational client.
Lott, whose current private practice focuses on legal strategy for national advocacy groups and nonprofit organizations, previously served as chief counsel to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston and was deputy counsel to the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. She has worked at large firms in several major cities, and served both as Chief Counsel for Advisory Services and Section Chief for Administrative and Regulatory Litigation in the Indiana Attorney General's office. In 2006 and 2007, she was a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School, co-teaching an advanced research seminar on state attorneys general, and currently serves as an adjunct research scholar at Columbia on charities regulation. She is admitted to practice in Indiana, Washington D.C., and Massachusetts.