Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech are soliciting applications for a Visiting Clinical Professor (Assistant, Associate, or Full – rank commensurate with experience) to join the faculty of the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic (ELC) for the 2025-2026 academic year. This position will be based in New York City.

The ELC has recently expanded through a gift establishing the new Blassberg-Rice Entrepreneurship Law Center. This gift has enabled the ELC to establish Cornell’s first New York City-based law clinic at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

The ELC provides pro bono transactional legal services to entrepreneurs and startup businesses who are not yet ready or able to engage paid legal counsel, but who need assistance setting the legal foundation for their businesses. The expansion of the ELC represents Cornell Law School’s commitment to community-engaged learning and partnerships throughout New York state. The ELC’s clients include both for-profit and non-profit businesses that are poised to create jobs, contribute to community economic development, and promote innovation. Some clients are local in their focus, and others have the potential to have an impact far beyond New York state. Law students working in the ELC gain practical experience in a variety of substantive legal areas including business structuring and entity formation, intellectual property, employment, immigration, finance and commercial contracts.

The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include the following:

• Teach the seminar component for the New York City section(s) of the introductory and/or advanced ELC, focusing on both substantive business law and legal skills such as contract drafting and client relations. Depending on the successful applicant’s level of experience, the teaching load may also include one corporate law class in the Law, Technology & Entrepreneurship Program.

• Manage ongoing client engagements and supervise students’ client work, ensuring that the work is done in a timely and professional manner.

• Develop resources to support the ELC’s engagement with the local community, including workshops, presentations and standard forms.

• Participate in defining the focus of the ELC’s and the Blassberg-Rice Center’s work, including by responding to inquiries from potential clients and selecting clients to work with the ELC.

• Help maintain relationships with law firms and other organizations that support the ELC.

• Engage with the regional and national clinical legal education communities.

• Engage with the Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School faculties and programs via committee work and other efforts to continue to develop these programs.

Qualifications: JD and admission to the New York bar (or eligibility for admission on motion to the New York bar). A successful candidate must have a minimum of five years’ relevant practice experience, excellent supervisee- and client-management skills, the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced law practice environment, and a track record of forming positive professional relationships. Prior law school teaching or clinical teaching experience is strongly preferred.

To Apply:

Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, the names of three references, and other significant supporting materials to https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29642. We also ask applicants for all faculty positions to share their experiences and/or approaches (past, current, or future) to fostering learning, research service, and/or outreach in a diverse community. Applicants may choose to submit a stand-alone statement or embed the information in other parts of their application materials.

To ensure maximum consideration, please submit all application materials by February 28, 2025. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with priority given to early applicants.

Questions may be referred to Liz Flint (liz.flint@cornell.edu).