Abstract
Students in my Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic (“ECD Clinic”) often have opportunities to practice their drafting skills during their time with me. While students typically work on a wide variety of drafting projects, I have found that client matters that involve drafting what this essay will refer to as a “release” tend to present the best opportunities for students to practice a variety of core transactional skills in a short amount of time. Two recent client matters in the ECD Clinic illustrate why these kinds of drafting projects work well. In this essay, I describe those two recent projects, identify several transactional skills students can practice in clinical courses when drafting releases, and suggest that law teachers can easily adapt this vehicle for use in non-clinical settings.
Recommended Citation
Dana M. Malkus,
The Release: An Ideal Vehicle for a Short Runway,
70
St. Louis U. L.J.
(2026).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/vol70/iss3/9