UM students to support entrepreneurs.

Students at the University of Miami School of Law will begin providing free legal services to entrepreneurs in January to help support South Florida's entrepreneurship community.

Through the Larry Hoffman|Greenberg Traurig Startup Law Practicum, Miami law students will help young businesses and organizations with a wide range of legal issues, including organizing, financing, talent, intellectual property, risk, and regulation.

The Startup Law Practicum's director, Daniel B. Ravicher, an attorney who has represented startups since the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, will supervise the students. Ravicher has helped entrepreneurs with a variety of legal matters and also advised investors in startups. Ravicher has been an entrepreneur himself, forming businesses in various sectors.

"We at the University of Miami School of Law are excited about South Florida's quick ascent to...