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Sarah Kaplan

PathLight Law

 

Member profile details

 

BASIC PROFILE

+First name
Sarah
+Last name
Kaplan
Phone
312-883-3980
Pronouns
she/her
+Photo /Image
Fields of work (current or most recent if retired/inactive)
  • Law
Workplace or Organizational Affiliation
PathLight Law
+Profile summary
Sarah Kaplan has over 10 years of experience serving cooperatives and other social enterprises, focusing on entity structuring and capital-raising. Her experience includes structuring new legal entities, advising on private and public capital-raising campaigns, structuring community investment funds, and co-op conversion transactions. Her clients include worker co-ops, food co-ops, agricultural co-ops, platform co-ops, limited cooperative associations, and charitable organizations. Sarah’s law blog with shared resources is here (sarahkaplan.law). Sarah practices remotely in California and Illinois, and lives and gardens in St. Louis, Missouri.
Profile extension
Sarah supports economic self-empowerment.
Membership in other co-op organizations
  • Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) Legal Fellows Program
 

2. MEMBER'S PRACTICE STATUS AND LICENSES

Professional role in law or accounting fields (regardless of current employment)
Attorney
Current Practice Status
Active
+Availability for New Clients
Member is accepting new clients
+States in which Member currently practices, if any (2 letter abbreviations)
CA, IL
Attorney Licensure States (2-letter abbreviations, separate with commas)
CA, IL
+Cooperative Sectors Currently Served (if any)
  • Worker Coops
  • Purchasing Coops
  • Producer/Marketing Coops
  • Platform Coops
  • Multistakeholder Coops
  • Housing, Real Estate, Land Use
  • Consumer Coops
  • Other
 

3. PRIMARY PLACE OF WORK DETAILS (See Part 4 for secondary work/affiliations)

+Member's Primary Place of Work or Organizational Affiliation
Cutting Edge Counsel
Workplace Type
Law practice - private firm or solo
Description of Business/Organization
We help mission-driven enterprises with entity structuring, raising capital, and other business law needs.
+Member's Position/Title
Partner
Work website
pathlightlaw.com
+Workplace Address - City
Oakland
Workplace Address - Zip
94612
+Workplace Address - State
California
Work phone
312-883-3980
 

5. MEMBER'S KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE (optionally shared in public Member Directory per privacy settings)

Industry Sector Experience
  • Agriculture
  • Arts, Entertainment, Creative
  • Construction, Building Trades
  • Education
  • Energy, Utilities, Solar
  • Engineering and Manufacturing
  • Food – Groceries
  • Food – Preparation, Processing
  • Food – Restaurants
  • Landscaping
  • Media and Publishing
  • Technology - Security and Support
  • Technology – Graphic and Web design
  • Technology – Software and SaaS
  • Other
Cooperative Sector Experience (working with or for these co-op types)
  • Consumer Coops
  • Housing, Real Estate, Land Use
  • Multistakeholder Coops
  • Platform Coops
  • Producer/Marketing Coops
  • Purchasing Coops
  • Worker Coops
  • Other
Legal Subject Matter Knowledge and Experience
  • Commercial business transactions - sales, contracts, transactions, licensing
  • Cooperative conversions
  • Community Land Trusts
  • Employee ownership/equity plans
  • Entity formation - Cooperatives (corporations, LLCs and LCAs)
  • Entity formation - Employee Trusts
  • Entity formation - Nonprofits
  • Governance and management
  • Fund raising and securities laws
  • Housing cooperatives and/or intentional residential communities
  • Intellectual property - trademarks and copyrights
  • Nonprofit operations (post-formation governance, income and/or taxation)
  • Union labor law and/or union coops
 

6. EDUCATION (completed or in progress)

Undergraduate School and Degree/Program
Princeton University, AB in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Law School
Chicago-Kent College of Law
 

7. MEMBER PRIVACY & PARTICIPATION IN DIRECTORY AND LISTSERV

+State/province/country for Member listing in the Members by State directory
California

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