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He turned that tragedy into inspiration and formed an aerospace startup company—Vita Inclinata Technologies in Seattle, Washington.
 e purpose behind Vita Inclinata was to develop a way to stabilize the hoist lines and cargo below helicopters to avoid incidents like the one that kept Carr’s friend from being res- cued. Just a few years a er the company was launched, that technology is now being built and tested.
“We ended up developing a drone that es- sentially attaches to the cable about  ve feet above the load that provides counterthrust in the direction of the swing to bring that load completely to center within about three sec- onds,” Carr explains.
He says the technology will save lives in rescue missions but also has applications in other situations where a cargo needs to be sta- bilized, from construction to  ghting  res.
 e invention has already garnered plenty of attention.  e startup recently won busi- ness competitions at Rice University and Bay- lor University.  e company has also signed $2.7 million in contracts with the Army and Air Force to develop systems for rescue opera- tions and cargo transportation.
While the 25-year-old Carr relishes his role as president and CEO of a fast-growing company with o ces in Seattle, Denver, and Washington D.C., he also loves being a law student.
Carr started law school in a full-time pro- gram in Seattle but found the requirement to be on campus 80 percent of the time didn’t accommodate an entrepreneur’s hectic travel schedule.
 is winter he transferred to Mitchell Ham- line’s Hybrid J.D. program, a part-time on- campus and online program that allows him to handle the day-to-day operations of Vita Inclinata while he works toward his law de- gree.
He’s travelling practically non-stop these days, but that gives him plenty of time to
crack open his laptop and study—whether he’s in an airport or already  ying. “I sit on airplanes and do homework,” he says. “ at’s basically my life.”
Carr has discovered that attending law school while running a company has its ad- vantages. He’s able to immediately apply what he learns in the classroom to his real-world
I sit on airplanes
and do homework.
 at’s basically my
life.”
MITCHELL HAMLINE HYBRID J.D. PROGRAM STUDENT CALEB CARR
work—whether that’s in contract negotiations with a big aerospace  rm or helping his com- pany identify potential legal issues before they become problems.
Once he’s  nished his law degree, Carr plans to provide legal advice to his fellow en- trepreneurs in the startup world.
Ultimately, he’d like to use his J.D. in the courtroom. When he’s not running Vita In- clinata, or studying at Mitchell Hamline, he works as a litigator for the Unemployment Law Project, a group that provides low-cost representation to people in the state of Wash- ington whose unemployment bene ts have been challenged or denied.
“I will always love the courtroom and the thrill that is defending and advocating for cli- ents,” he says.
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