About Us

Generally

The Organizations and Transactions Clinic is part of the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School. From its founding in 2007 until 2024, the clinic provided free corporate legal services to established Northern California and other nonprofit organizations.

Jay Mitchell, Professor of Law, Emeritus, was the founding director of the Organizations and Transactions Clinic and led the clinic from 2007 until September 2023. Michelle Sonu served as Associate Director of the clinic from 2012 to 2024. Professor Mitchell and Ms. Sonu worked with numerous student teams to develop many of the documents on the site.

Mills Legal Clinic

Founded in 2005, the Mills Legal Clinic is a vital part of Stanford Law School’s mission to prepare every student for the challenges, responsibilities and rewards of a career as a legal professional. Providing individualized, hands-on learning opportunities, this intensive training ground shapes future lawyers of every career aspiration, whether they choose to work in a large firm, become entrepreneurs, make policy or engage in full-time public service. The work done in the Mills Legal Clinic ranges from high-impact litigation to direct-services representation, from broad-based policy initiatives to close work with individuals and organizations—locally, nationally, and abroad.

Acknowledgments

The Robert Crown Law Library, the information technology department, and the office of communications at Stanford Law School guided and collaborated with the clinic in developing this website. In particular, we are indebted to Alba Holgado and Beth Williams from the library, Jean-Francois Barthe from the IT department, and Jennifer Stroth, Jenny Quan and Joe Banks from communications, for their commitment, creativity, expertise, patience, and plain hard work in building the site. We are also grateful to the lawyers and organizations who’ve made forms and precedents available to us and to the public over the years.