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Part of Business & Corporate Law

Venture & Startup Law

Legal work for new companies and the investors who fund them.

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What this area covers

Startup lawyers help founders incorporate, divide equity, protect what they build and raise successive rounds of financing. The same lawyers often represent the funds that invest.

Also called: Emerging Companies, Entrepreneurship Law, Startup Law, Venture Capital Law.

Typical legal work

  • Incorporating companies and documenting founder equity
  • Negotiating seed and venture financings
  • Drafting equity compensation plans

Where lawyers work

  • Law firms of every size
  • In-house legal departments
  • Venture capital funds
  • Law school entrepreneurship clinics

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in Venture & Startup Law. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

41 schools · 1 concentration · 2 certificates · 33 clinics · 9 centers and institutes

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Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

  1. 1.American Bar Association. Business Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.