ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – The New York Attorney General’s Office has teamed with two technology clinics in the state to bring technology start-ups and government entities together so that each realm can learn how the other operates, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on Friday.
Schneiderman and New York City Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter unveiled the partnership with the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, which is run out of the Brooklyn Law School, and the Tech Startup Clinic, which is operated through the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University and Fordham University School of Law’s Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP). Schneiderman
The collaboration will help start-ups navigate legal complexities and regulations in New York City and the state, Schneiderman said.
“New technology companies bring with them extraordinary economic and social benefits to many New York communities, and we want to encourage that,” Schneiderman said. “By collaborating with these…premier programs and providing guidance on how to navigate rules and regulations that protect the public, we can help tech entrepreneurs put down roots in New York more easily.”
Schneiderman said the partnership will help both sides by giving start-ups access to government officials, and will also allow officials to understand how new technologies could pose challenges to regulations.
