Behind The Mic

Bernice Grant

Show Host

Bernice Grant is the Senior Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Program, and Founding Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, at Fordham University School of Law. She teaches law students how to provide transactional legal services to entrepreneurs, using an integrated law and business perspective based on her diverse background as a corporate attorney and certified public accountant.

Before joining Fordham, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was the Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic. She also taught at New York University School of Law, where she was an Acting Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Lawyering Program. Before entering academia, she was a Corporate Associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.M. from New York University School of Law, and a B.S., magna cum laude, and M.S. from Wake Forest University.


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About Our Show

Welcome to the Startup LAWnchpad Podcast—a podcast for entrepreneurs that answers all the important legal questions entrepreneurs never knew to ask.

Startup LAWnchpad is a virtual legal workshop series that educates entrepreneurs about forming, growing, and protecting a startup. Tune in to learn how to structure co-founder relationships, choose a legal entity, protect intellectual property, obtain seed financing, build a team, and more. Startup LAWnchpad is produced by the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic at Fordham University School of Law, and features Fordham Law professors, students, alumni, and guests. This podcast aims to close the legal information gap, and is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not legal advice specific to any listener’s situation.

Startup LAWnchpad is made possible by the generous support of the Nasdaq Educational Foundation and Fordham’s Entrepreneurial Law Advisory Council.