Elon Law Residencies: Businesses and Business Owners
Corporate In-House Council
Arch Capital Services, Inc.
Where: Greensboro
Practice Areas: Insurance law, corporate law, legal contracts
Type of Work: Negotiating and drafting legal agreements, insurance research, corporate governance and SEC work, privacy research, international law matters, tax research, internal policy and procedure drafting.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter only
Special considerations: Excellent writing skills, willingness to research and understand complex business transactions, interest in international practice, interest in in-house practice and/or insurance law.
Red Ventures
Where: Fort Mill, SC
Practice Areas: Red Ventures is a technology development and digital customer acquisition company that specializes in utilizing proprietary technologies and data analytics within a variety of online and offline marketing channels to create business solutions for various national brand partners. In support of those efforts, the RV Legal Department engages in a wide range of legal practice areas, including corporate, intellectual property and technology, marketing, compliance and regulatory work, employment, privacy, real estate, international, mergers and acquisition, contracts, and other transactional matters.
Type of Work: Students will have the opportunity for hands-on involvement in the daily operations of the RV Legal Department, participating in internal business and legal meetings, drafting contracts and other legal materials, performing legal and business research, reviewing promotional materials, and otherwise working with other Department members to support the diverse breadth of the company’s business.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Signature Property Group
Where: Greensboro, NC
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Type of Work: Land acquisition, entitlements, land use, business due diligence, landlord-tenant, etc.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Special considerations: Prefer students with experience and/or interest in real estate and business generally. Students should be organized, self-starters and able to problem solve.
The Carroll Companies
Where: Greensboro
Practice Areas: Real estate transactions, business law, construction law, contract law, landlord-tenant law, and employment law.
Type of Work: The Carroll Companies is a privately owned, in-house real estate development and management firm. Students will be involved in the transactional side of law practice.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Special considerations: Student must be at or near the top 15% of class. Personality, interest, and drive will be considerations.
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions
Where: Durham
Practice Areas: General Corporate; Technology Licensing; International Corporate Governance; Labor Law.
Type of Work: Research, drafting, and negotiating; some support to litigation matters and larger transactions; presentation skills.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter only
Special considerations: Student should be interested in corporate in-house work and technology law.
Litigation (Firms and Judiciary)
Carruthers & Roth, P.A.
Where: Greensboro
Practice Areas: Litigation (primary): option to work in corporate, tax, commercial real estate, and estate planning
Type of Work: Student would complete work similar to that performed by a summer associate: research, drafting, accompanying supervising attorney to depositions, hearings, trials
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Special Considerations: Student must be in top third of class.
North Carolina Business Court, Judge Michael L. Robinson
Where: Winston-Salem (at Wake Forest University law school)
Jurisdiction: Complex and Significant Business Litigation
Type of Work: Legal research, writing, drafting, and other chamber duties as assigned. Opportunity to attend court sessions
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter only
Special Considerations: Student must be a strong writer as evidenced by grades in legal writing courses.
Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Where: Greensboro
Practice Areas: Litigation (primary) including construction, transportation, intellectual property, appellate, and employment matters, with potential for non-litigation projects in corporate, wealth management and taxation, real estate, health care, and trusts/estates.
Type of Work: Student would complete work similar to that performed by a summer associate: research, drafting, accompanying supervising attorney to depositions, hearings, trials.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Spring only
Other Considerations: A GPA of 2.8 or above is required. SML strongly encourages minority students to apply.
Mixed Practice
Milazzo Webb Law, PLLC
Where: Charlotte, NC
Practice Areas:
- Corporate: Mergers and acquisitions, technology, supply chain and outsourcing transactions, private equity and venture capital transactions, commercial business transactions, loan modifications and other general corporate work, such as corporate organization or dissolution; Commercial Real Estate, Wills and Estate
- Litigation: Business Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Employment Law, Property Subrogation and Recovery, Tax Controversy, Criminal Law, Family Law
Type of Work:
- Transactional Work – law student shall meet with legal team to determine course of action on legal matters, legal research and analysis, drafting of documents, shadowing attorneys and engaging in networking opportunities geared for corporate sector business
- Litigation Work – law student shall meet with legal team to determine course of action on litigation matters, legal research and analysis, drafting of documents, shadowing attorneys, attend hearings with attorneys, attend client meetings and depositions.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Special Considerations: The qualified candidate will be business savvy and have a good working knowledge of business law concepts and/or litigation process
Walker Lambe Rhudy Costley & Gill, PLLC
Where: Durham
Practice Areas:
- Litigation (Focus on fiduciary, trusts/estates, and business law)
- Business law (wide range of issues)
Type of Work: Legal research, drafting pleadings/discovery/motions, deposition prep, maybe mediation prep, witness interviews, drafting and reviewing contracts, client interviews.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Spring only
Robertson & Associates
Where: Charlotte, NC
Practice Areas: Construction Litigation, Business & Commercial Litigation, Creditor’s Rights, Employer Defense, Real Property, Commercial Real Estate, Insurance Defense, Estate Planning and Estate Administration.
Type of Work: Legal research and writing, document drafting (transactional and trial), client counseling, attending motions, depositions, and mediations.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Transactional
Capital City Law
Where: Raleigh, NC
Practice Areas: 1) Real Estate Closings and Practice and 2) Business Law Practice
Type of Work: 1) Real Estate: Preparation of title opinions. Escrow procedures. Settlement process / conference and 2) Business Law: Contract Negotiation, Contract Drafting Review, Legal Side of Financing
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Elon Law Small Business & Entrepreneurship Clinic
Where: Elon Law School
Practice Areas: Business Law
Type of Work: Business-related legal services to entrepreneurs and small business owners who would not otherwise be able to afford legal representation. Students develop analytical, planning, editorial and counseling skills in the context of client projects and reality-grounded class work. Services provided by the clinic include, but are not limited to, choice of entity advising, organizational document drafting and review, contract review and drafting, employment and human resource advising, regulatory compliance, and drafting financing documentation.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Neo IP
Where: Durham
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property
Type of Work: Patent, trademark, software-based research, & writing
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Special considerations: Someone with a technical background, preferably in computer science or engineering, and an interest in technology is preferred.
Syngenta
Where: Research Triangle Park
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Patent Law in the area of Seeds & Biotechnology
Type of Work: Syngenta is a global leader at providing essential inputs to growers: crop protection, seeds, seed treatments and traits. Its mission is to deliver better food for a better world through outstanding crop solutions. Students will draft patent applications, prepare responses to office actions, review agreements, and draft opinions.
Trimester(s) Placements Are Available: Winter and Spring
Special Considerations: The ideal student would be a patent agent or someone with a basic understanding of intellectual property and an undergraduate and/or graduate degree in the Chemical or Biotechnology fields (e.g. Chemistry, Chemical engineering, Agronomy, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Genetics or Biochemistry).