Community Development/Small Business Law Clinic

Gamez's "Month of the Contract"

For Ana Maria Gamez, 3L, October 2001 will forever be known as the "Month of the Contract"! One of her clients wanted to hire a particular individual to head up a new division of the client's ten-year-old management consulting company. Not only did Gamez draft and successfully negotiate the terms of a complex Memorandum of Understanding between the company and that individual, but the client was so impressed by Gamez's skillful handling of the matter, that she asked Gamez to draft a teaming agreement, employment contracts and independent contractor agreements. During this same period, Gamez drafted a service agreement for a high-tech temporary staffing agency and crafted an operating agreement for another professional services firm. Through her efforts, Gamez has demonstrated that the UDC-DCSL clinical program is second to none!

Jiles and Williams Provide Assistance

Rasheda Jiles, 3L, and Guana Williams, 3L, have been learning the frustrations and rewards of a community development law practice this semester. They are guiding a small community development corporation in its application for tax exempt status and assisting a tenant association in negotiations to purchase an apartment building. Both cases pose interesting and challenging issues.

Theodora Brown Joins Clinic

Last semester, Prof. Louise Howells obtained the largest start-up grant ever awarded from the D.C. Bar Foundation to further the mission of the Community Development Clinic. The law school used the funds to hire Theodora H. Brown, a solo practitioner whose practice areas include copyright, trademark, communications and business law. Ms. Brown graduated from Temple University School of Law and worked in the Office of the General Counsel of the National Public Radio, Inc. Please take a moment to welcome Theodora Brown to the UDC-DCSL community.