Topic: Business and Entrepreneurship
63 results
![Michelle Gluck, ’83: Opening Doors for Future Leaders A portrait of Michelle Gluck, ’83.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/michellegluck-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=T-CvAGfQ)
![Michelle Gluck, ’83: Opening Doors for Future Leaders A portrait of Michelle Gluck, ’83.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/michellegluck-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=88j7uw4v)
Impact Summer 2024
Michelle Gluck, ’83: Opening Doors for Future Leaders
For Michelle Gluck, ’83, choosing which academic path she’d follow was better left in the hands of fate. Torn between medicine and law, she decided to let test results determine her next steps.
![Ernest Newborn, ’83: Inspired by the Past, Looking to the Future A portrait of Ernest Newborn, ’83.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/ernest-newborn-1-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=mYhRFt-b)
![Ernest Newborn, ’83: Inspired by the Past, Looking to the Future A portrait of Ernest Newborn, ’83.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/ernest-newborn-1-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=IxqVQLs7)
Impact Summer 2024
Ernest Newborn, ’83: Inspired by the Past, Looking to the Future
Ernest Newborn, ’83, has spent his career building on the legacy of his grandfather, who, against the odds as a Black man, rose from mail clerk to chief legal officer at a steel company in the mid-1900s.
![Bill, ’71, and Cindy Rainey: Opening Doors for the Next Generation Bill, ’71, and Cindy Rainey at a Michigan football game.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/raineys-2-gigapixel-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=j9bih9tf)
![Bill, ’71, and Cindy Rainey: Opening Doors for the Next Generation Bill, ’71, and Cindy Rainey at a Michigan football game.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-06/raineys-2-gigapixel-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=O0OL7BLQ)
Impact Summer 2024
Bill, ’71, and Cindy Rainey: Opening Doors for the Next Generation
Bill Rainey dreamed of being a lawyer as early as junior high, which led him to become the first person in his family to graduate from college and the first person in his high school to attend an Ivy League institution.
![Learning on the Ground in Rwanda Thumb Clinic students (in the center, from left to right) Lindsey Corbett, Emily Unger, and Jessica Carter met with Nyiransenguwera Mayimuna (far left), a BioMassters client, and Benjamine Barihuta (far right), a member of the BioMassters team, on a site visit.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/rwanda-photo-7-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=1OTlNkuo)
![Learning on the Ground in Rwanda Thumb Clinic students (in the center, from left to right) Lindsey Corbett, Emily Unger, and Jessica Carter met with Nyiransenguwera Mayimuna (far left), a BioMassters client, and Benjamine Barihuta (far right), a member of the BioMassters team, on a site visit.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/rwanda-photo-7-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=w0aBXyXZ)
Features Summer 2024
Learning International Transaction Law on the Ground in Rwanda
During spring break in February, three Michigan Law students traveled to Kigali, Rwanda to meet with the management of BioMassters Limited, a client with whom they had been working all year in the International Transactions Clinic.
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW CEC Thumb Student speaking in front of a group of people](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-cec-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=OtrnzlSw)
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW CEC Thumb Student speaking in front of a group of people](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-cec-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=inWSxMyn)
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Strengthening Southeast Michigan through Small Businesses
Students in Michigan Law’s Community Enterprise Clinic work under faculty supervision to help revitalize and reinvigorate urban communities across Michigan, promoting community and economic development in disinvested cities by supporting organizations that have a mission beyond the bottom line.
![Fall 2023 Impact Peter H. DeHaas, ’63 Thumb A portrait of Peter H. DeHaas, ’63.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-impact-dehaas-peter-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=v0T5PQP4)
![Fall 2023 Impact Peter H. DeHaas, ’63 Thumb A portrait of Peter H. DeHaas, ’63.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-impact-dehaas-peter-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=xOaELQTY)
Impact Fall 2023
Peter H. DeHaas, ’63: Boosting Financial Independence for Future Generations
Peter DeHaas spent his career working toward financial freedom—an aspirational goal that he was able to achieve with a little help along the way. With gratitude for the financial aid he received as a student, DeHaas recently established a $12 million trust to help the next generation of Michigan Law students achieve their career and financial goals.
![Athletes as Entrepreneurs Hero 002 University of Michigan Gymnast performing a routine](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/athletes_as_entrepreneurs_hero_002.jpg.webp?itok=f1lHmgNA)
![Athletes as Entrepreneurs Hero 002 University of Michigan Gymnast performing a routine](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-07/athletes_as_entrepreneurs_hero_002.jpg.webp?itok=BTidlwY5)
Cover Story Spring/Summer 2023
Athletes as Entrepreneurs
With recent changes to NCAA rules, student-athletes now have the opportunity to earn income from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) through third-party deals. At U-M, members of the Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic are at the forefront of NIL work, helping student-athletes understand the laws and start their own businesses.
![Spring 2023 Feature The Business of College Sports Hero University of Michigan athletic Students in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/nil-meeting-6.jpg.webp?itok=VB52kC4j)
![Spring 2023 Feature The Business of College Sports Hero University of Michigan athletic Students in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-07/nil-meeting-6.jpg.webp?itok=4URZF0aZ)
Features Spring/Summer 2023
The Business of College Sports
Name, image, likeness (NIL)—three words that have created enormous changes for student-athletes and collegiate sports. We spoke with two Michigan Law alumni—one historically in favor and one against compensation for athletes—who have engaged on this topic over the past several years in friendly debate with each other.
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![The-Problem-Solving-Linchpin Icons representing the story. This is a lightbulb, a computer screen with a magnifying glass, a robot at a computer, a lock icon, and recycle icon](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-01/The-Problem-Solving-Linchpin-_0.jpg.webp?itok=KHWBevb5)
Cover Story
The Evolution of the General Counsel
Traditionally, general counsels were relegated to a niche role that addressed the specific legal needs of an organization—such as overseeing litigation, executing contracts, or advising on legal risk. But the role has transformed during the past few decades, and has evolved from a narrow legal resource to the center of an organization’s creative problem solving.
![Clinic Helps Bring Clean Cooking to African Nations Women holding a clean cooking stove by BURN Manufacturing](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-12/ITC2.JPG.webp?itok=FDEYIpFX)
![Clinic Helps Bring Clean Cooking to African Nations Women holding a clean cooking stove by BURN Manufacturing](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2022-12/ITC2.JPG.webp?itok=jfeIyCK_)
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Clinic Helps Bring Clean Cooking to African Nations
Working from their clinic in Ann Arbor, three U-M law students participated in an international transaction during the 2021–2022 academic year that will have an impact not only on the environment but on millions of people living half a world away.