New legal center to assist Brooklyn entrepreneurs
When Nick Allard took over as the president and dean of Brooklyn Law School in 2012, he was determined to expand on Brooklyn’s entrepreneurial trend and expressed hopes to create business boot camps that would allow law students to assist Brooklyn’s start-up business owners in forming corporate structures and preparing organizational documents.
You cannot “teach entrepreneurship,” Allard told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in his inaugural interview, but “[law schools] can provide the tools.” Allard has followed through on his goal, creating Business Boot Camps in partnership with Deloitte and announcing the opening of BLS’ CUBE (Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship).
Designed as a vehicle to explore legal issues surrounding entrepreneurship, and for providing effective legal representation and support for new commercial and not-for-profit businesses – while also training the next generation of business lawyers to advise and participate in these sectors –CUBE hopes to further Brooklyn’s panache for innovation.