Welcome back, Solar Warriors.
This is Tactical Tuesday, a short-form conversation with subject matter experts designed to give you the practical tools, tips and advice for building your solar business or career.
Today, we're gonna be chatting with the two people who run a program I didn’t even know existed until January, Stanford's Lawyers for Sustainable Economy (LSE) Initiative, managed by Molly Melius, the Director of LS, and Jesse Lazarus, Senior Associate of LS, and a second-year law student.
The Lawyers for a Sustainable Economy Initiative, or the LSE initiative for short, is a law firm-led and Stanford-supported initiative that provides free legal assistance to sustainability focused entrepreneurs and nonprofits. And in particular, the initiative aims to support promising green entrepreneurs and nonprofits who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford legal services.
So far, the LSE initiative has been an overwhelming success: the 14 law firms (including Cooley, Latham & Watkins, Wilson Sonsini and Orrick) in the initiative have already exceeded their original commitment of $25M to provide $35M in pro bono legal services as of the end of last year.
More information can also be found on the LSE website, and LSE is happy to communicate over email or set up time for a call to address any questions not answered there.
To offer a little more detail, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs can qualify as either (i) social enterprises or (ii) income-eligible entrepreneurs (see full list of criteria for eligibility here), and then apply by submitting an intake form here.
If you still have questions, please send an email to lawyersforsustainability@law.stanford.edu
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