Featured Training Session

Corporate Pro Bono Day

Corporate Pro Bono Day (CPBD), sponsored by DLA Piper,  was held November 17, 2009 from 8:30am-1:00pm at the Enterprise Center. This event was a Small Business Counseling Clinic and CLE. Volunteer in-house counsel provided free legal advice to Philadelphia small businesses after attending a CLE seminar. CPBD provides microentrepreneurs the opportunity to discuss immediate and ongoing legal matters with corporate counsel from various Philadelphia-area businesses. Past volunteers include counsel from PECO Energy, Comcast Cable Communications, Pep Boys, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, and many others. CPBD was hosted by The Enterprise Center, a minority business incubator program located in the historic American Bandstand Building in West Philadelphia. Prior to the counseling sessions, attorneys from Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC provided a continuing legal education seminar on the essential legal needs of small businesses. This year’s CPBD was the biggest and most successful to date for a variety of microentrepreneurs, including a clothing company, a wireless phone store, a clothing designer, a caterer, a photographer, and a handbag designer. Most of the microentrepreneurs attending the event are local minority and women business owners and operators located along newly revitalized commercial corridors.

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