By Jay Jiang & Sage Yang Day 2 – Tuesday, March 26: Morrison Foerster After our first night’s rest in the Bay area, the MSL EnTP team kicked off the second day of our trip at Morrison Foerster, also known as MoFo. We were excited to delve deeper into the big law’s success in the […]
By Hao Gao & Shalin Shah Day 1 – Monday, March 25: Gusto On the team’s first evening in the Bay Area, we began the trip by visiting with the legal team at Gusto, an innovative payroll and HR management solutions provider that serves small businesses. We ventured to the historic maritime industrial district in […]
By Evan Goldberg Following a whirlwind trip to the Bay Area to learn about legal technology, startups, large companies, and how innovation is changing operations of all of these entities, our MSL Entrepreneurship Team Project students have written blog posts about each company we visited and entrepreneur with whom we met. This week, we’ll publish […]
By Dan Linna (@DanLinna) & Evan Goldberg (@evanmgoldberg) Each of the last several years, teams of Northwestern JD, LLM, and Master of Science in Law (MSL) students have spent Spring Break in Silicon Valley studying innovation, technology, and law. This year, ten MSL students and one JD student have made the trip to San Francisco […]
We were up at the crack of dawn on Thursday for a breakfast talk hosted by Rod Fergusson, managing director of Panorama Capital (a West coast venture capital fund). Rod spoke very frankly about the life of a VC and what he sees going on in the industry. His talk emphasized the importance of […]
We started the day with a visit to Golden Gate Capital in San Francisco, which is one of the premier private equity funds in the country. Josh Olshansky, one of only 8 Managing Directors at the fund, spoke to the group about the private equity markets generally and Golden Gate’s place within the market […]
Our first stop on the second day of our Entrepreneurship Team Project trip was a visit to the Google campus to meet with Brian Downing, who recently moved from the legal department to become a director of engineering at Google. Brian talked about the challenges a company faces after growing to the size of Google. […]
What would be an exciting thing to do over the Spring Break? Well, a group of us in the MSL program headed out to the Bay Area in California for a class project called the Entrepreneurship Team Project, or EnTP. The EnTP is an elective course in the MSL program, where MSL students participate in […]