Kelly Woolfolk

Kelly is a clinical supervising attorney in the New Business Community Law Clinic where she mentors law students and counsels startup entrepreneurs on the legalities of business formation, operational management, and risk mitigation. Much of her work focuses on bringing the human element to the practice of law, both as she encourages her students to find their voice with clients and models how to navigate the demands of transactional practice while maintaining a balanced life.

In addition to her work on the clinic faculty, Kelly practices transactional entertainment law for clients in the television and film industries. This work is primarily in Los Angeles though she has also counseled clients with deals in Latin America and the European Union. She is a former expat, having lived in the Dominican Republic for nearly four years where she taught university students and formed a real estate business to assist international investors with local purchases.

Kelly holds a B.A. in Spanish from Spelman College, a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law and an LL.M., with a specialization in International Law, from Berkeley Law. She is a member of the California, Georgia, and Maryland state bar associations.

Kelly has published on negotiations in The Berkeley Journal of International Law and authored a paper entitled Numbers Games: The Impacts of International Tax Policies on U.S. and Latin American Economic Development. She also authored an essay, Finding Home, in the anthology All the Women in My Family Sing, detailing her experience growing up and later, as a mother, raising a brown boy amid dire U.S. racial tensions.

She is fluent in Spanish and speaks conversational French.

Kelly Woolfolk is teaching the following courses in Fall 2023:

• 292A sec. 001 - New Business Community Law Clinic Seminar
• 295.5M sec. 001 - New Business Community Law Clinic
• 295.5N sec. 001 - Advanced New Business Community Law Clinic

Courses During Other Semesters