Take Your Next Step in Your Business
Get Free Legal or Business information and Resources with Santa Clara University’s leading law and business students.
Santa Clara University’s Law and Business Schools provides a free service called Bronco Entrepreneurs Advisor Clinic (BEACH)
BEACH, is a free program that provides information and resources to small business owners including start-ups on a legal or business concern. Supported by law and business student teams and mentored by seasoned industry professionals, BEACH researches, reviews and provides information and resources related to their findings with recommendations which includes the main topic and additional resources.
The Commitment
We ask that as a BEACH client, you commit to being available and flexible for both the Discovery Meeting and the Advising Meetings to ensure students have a valuable learning experience in working on the client challenge. BEACH is offered at no charge.
BEACH is not a formal engagement - either as legal counsel or business advising. BEACH teams do maintain client confidentiality.
"AMAZING! I have been part of the BEACH clinic twice and both times it has been truly useful. I am SOOOO grateful. "
"Thank you for offering this service! "
"This was my first time, and I had a fantastic experience. The team did a great job of Communicating, Advising and Offering additional input on their recommendations. Thank You for all the help!! "
"The BEACH team did an excellent job of researching our particular needs. We appreciated their efforts and the quality & detail of their analysis was good and the final presentation to us was clear and beneficial."
"BEACH is a great program helping people who are less knowledgeable or experienced in business. I was very satisfied with all the help I received. Thank You for putting together a great report for me and my company. "
Frequently Asked Questions
- An interdisciplinary initiative where SCU business and law students work in cross
functional groups under the stellar mentorship of seasoned business executives
and attorneys to provide FREE business and legal advice to Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs - Conceptualized by the Ciocca Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Leavey School of Business and Law School
- Invaluable, action learning experience for students that develops an entrepreneurial mindset and kickstarts their career journey
- Tremendous wealth of carefully vetted information and recommendations that addresses business and legal challenges confronting Bay Area startups
- Opportunity for industry practitioners and lawyers to utilize their knowledge and wisdom to guide aspiring entrepreneurs
- Students interested in learning about entrepreneurship and innovation
- Startups and small businesses needing free and high quality advice on pressing business and legal issues
- Industry experts in business and law interested in mentoring students and startups
- Cross-functional teams of 2 business students, 2 law students, 1 business mentor, and 1 law mentor are formed. Each team works with 2 clients per month
- Clients submit information about their business and legal issues in advance
- Teams complete an informational interview to learn more about the challenges
- Teams gather & analyze information & present findings in a scheduled advising session
- Industry mentors guide their assigned teams throughout the process
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