Janelle Orsi, an Oakland-based solo practitioner, runs the Sustainable Economies Law Center, a nonprofit that advises cooperatives and other community-based projects in the region’s flourishing sharing economy (built around the sharing of human and physical resources). In many ways, it’s the flip side of the one that undergirds our “Who Represents” feature elsewhere in this issue. As if to highlight that point, Orsi and her team have taken on legal apprentices—a practice that she says could help address the gap in legal services. She spoke with reporter Maria Zilberman; an edited version of their conversation follows.
Maria Zilberman: When and why did you start the Sustainable Economies Law Center?
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