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Director  Startup Legal Garage  UC Hastings College of the Law

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Professor Alice Armitage is the Director of the Startup Legal Garage at UC Hastings, overseeing the administration of a program that connects students with leading attorneys to provide corporate and intellectual property work to early-stage startup companies. She is also involved in research for the Institute for Innovation Law on the legal issues facing startup companies, focusing most recently on regulating the platform economy. Her early career included years at Arnold & Porter and the Treasury Department, and she has taught as an adjunct at UCLA. More recently, Alice was founder and CEO of a mobile safety app startup that won first place in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Apps Against Abuse Challenge, sponsored by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. She has also provided consulting services to other startup companies.

Professor Armitage is a graduate of the Yale Law School where she was the first woman Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal.  She also has an A.B. and an M.A. in British and American Literature from Brown University.

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