/news-archive/tag/kim-vu-dinh/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:01:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/03/21/community-development-course/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:01:03 +0000 /news/?p=73760 ... Business Innovations Legal Clinic hosts free course on joint ventures in community development]]> The event will be held from 6-8 p.m. in the student lounge on the second floor of Bowen Law School, 1201 McMath Ave. in Little Rock. The course also serves as the launch of the Business Innovation Legal Clinic鈥檚聽鈥淎ccess to Opportunity Handbook Series鈥澛爁or lawyers and community members, along with its first manual,聽鈥淲hen David Partners with Goliath: A Joint Venture Manual for Community Developers.鈥� The discussion will feature a panel of four speakers with backgrounds in community-based development throughout the United States. The speakers include:

• Barry Mallin,聽a New York City attorney with decades of experience representing nonprofits in tax credit transactions. Mallin was the primary author of聽鈥淲hen David Partners with Goliath: A Joint Venture Manual for Community Developers.鈥�
• Christopher Jones, an Arkansas native serving as executive director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and former executive director of the nationally-recognized Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston.
• Warwick Sabin, senior director of U.S. programs of the Rockefeller Foundation who developed numerous local projects, including the South on Main and Oxford American cluster in Downtown Little Rock and the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub in North Little Rock.
• Kim Vu-Dinh,聽visiting professor and director of the Business Innovations Legal Clinic at Bowen, whose past experience includes commercial and residential tax-credit based development in New Orleans. Vu-Dinh served as the primary editor of聽鈥淲hen David Partners with Goliath: A Joint Venture Manual for Community Developers.鈥�

All four speakers will discuss the best practices in community-based real estate developments and their firsthand experiences with projects both in and outside of Arkansas. A question-and-answer session will follow, and each聽attendee will receive a free copy of 鈥淲hen David Partners with Goliath: A Joint Venture Manual for Community Developers.鈥� This free event is open to all attorneys, students, and members of the public. Attorneys can receive two hours of continuing legal education credit. A complimentary meal will be provided by Ayo Foods, LLC, a worker-owned, new, local, business and client of the Business Innovations Legal Clinic.聽 with the number of attendees. The Business Innovations Legal Clinic provides high-quality, pro bono transactional legal counsel to small businesses and nonprofit organizations working in economic development, many of which would not be able to obtain legal assistance otherwise.聽This clinic is funded by a generous grant from the state’s Attorney General鈥檚 Office.]]> /news-archive/2017/11/01/start-business-arkansas-workshop/ Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:08:22 +0000 /news/?p=68426 ... Bowen Law School hosts workshop on how to start a business in Arkansas]]> Starting a new business can be a long venture filled with legal questions.聽 The William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the will deliver a free workshop to help clear up the legal questions associated with opening a new business in Arkansas. The workshop, 鈥淟et鈥檚 Make It Legal,鈥� will take place from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7, at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, 201 E. Broadway St. in North Little Rock. The Innovation Hub is partnering with Bowen鈥檚 Business Innovations Clinic to present a free workshop where participants can learn how to start, structure, protect, and maintain a new business in Arkansas. Sager Patel, a third-year law student from Kenya with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in biology from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, and Kristina Hallock, a third-year law student from Jacksonville with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in chemistry from the University of Central Arkansas, will lead the workshop. In 2016, Bowen received a $1 million grant from the Arkansas Attorney General鈥檚 Office to create the clinic. Students enrolled in the Business Innovations Clinic, under the supervision of Kim Vu-Dinh, visiting assistant professor of law, work closely to serve the legal needs of small businesses, innovators, and non-profit organizations. The event is free and open to the public. Fill out the to reserve a spot in the workshop]]>