Non-Profit

15-261 Client, a tax-exempt nonprofit, needs general counsel on contracts with vendors and participants in its public performance and touring art exhibit programs. Client also needs assistance reviewing its lease and drafting independent contractor agreements for its artist fellows. It has an upcoming public art exhibit that involves recording participants, including minors, and Client needs a rel...

15-224 Client seeks help formalizing his business and advice on trademark and a service contract. He runs a storytelling consulting business to help clients and the general public translate their messages into stories. Client Type: Pro Bono. Client has been operating as a sole proprietor and would like to form as a LLC or s-corp. He and his wife earn roughly 30K annually and he is sensitive on cos...

Client, an Illinois not-for-profit art and culture organization, seeks assistance revising its contracts with artists in order to exhibit and sell their work. Client also seeks advice on compliance with a relevant arts and crafts statute as well as assistance preparing a fiscal sponsorship agreement....

15-198 Client is a newly formed nonprofit that is generating photographic images that show diversity for use in education. Client is creating a website and needs terms of use that include provisions for teachers to license the images. Client also needs help acquiring rights from photographers and subjects and wants advice on copyright and trademark registration. Client Type: Pro Bono....

15-042 Client is a motivational speaker who goes into the schools and talks about college, scholarships and programs that are available. She comes from a disadvantaged background and that helps her to connect with the students. Client is interested in setting up a not-for-profit organization. Client type: Pro Bono....

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Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client seeks legal advice proposing his nonprofit consultation services to various organizations. Client has a fine arts and video production background and has had difficulty in the past securing fees for his design services. He states he plans to propose certain branding services to the Chicago Council for...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client entered into a written contract with a nonprofit arts organization to provide a variety of services in order to plan an annual fund-raiser. Client provided services for roughly nine months and received payment in part. The scope of the project changed over time. Client states she fully performed unde...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: On June 15, 2010, Bill and Michael Eisnach met with Michele Feder-Nadoff. Michele formed the Cuentos Foundation and has been running the foundation for 12 years. The client came in seeking how to best establish a salary for herself as executive director of Cuentos. Additionally, the client has received a Fu...

Client is a not-for-profit tax exempt multi-disciplinary art and design educational organization for students. Client seeks legal help to revise volunteer contracts and contracts with outside educational groups. Client also needs help registering trademark in the organization's logo, name, and program names and advice on copyright in its curriculum....