Watch anytime: 2021 Legal Innovation Conference’s panels on Legal Issues Facing Startups
If you missed the 2021 Legal Innovation Conference — Legal Issues Facing Startups — all the speaker and panel sessions, plus a PDF of resource links provided by the speakers after the event, are now available.
The conference speakers tackled how startups can be better served by lawyers beyond traditional assistance. It examined common and intermediary legal questions that startups have, and dealt with how lawyers can bridge the gap between themselves and entrepreneurs who need innovative, cost-effective services.
This YouTube link contains all the sessions or allows you to skip to the most relevant session.
This Google Drive link contains all the resource links from our speakers.
The Legal Innovation Conference was sponsored by the University of Alberta Faculty of Law and organized by students of the Law and Business Association on January 29, 2021.

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