Columbia Law School values its relationship with its firm and corporate partners. The list below highlights just some of the important ways in which firms and corporations support Columbia Law School with leadership commitments.
Baker & McKenzie
- Baker & McKenzie LL.M. Fellowship Fund provides scholarships to LL.M. students with significant financial need.
Clifford Chance
- Clifford Chance Thought Leadership Initiative on Diversity Faculty Research and Lecture Series supports faculty research examining diversity and its implications within the legal community and an annual lecture to showcase the results of this research.
Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Davis Polk & Wardwell Leadership Initiative Fund focuses on leadership development and includes an orientation on collaboration and team building for incoming first-year students; new courses such as Lawyer Leadership: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Change; new case study development; research grants; coaching program; and new co-curricular enrichment opportunities.
- Davis Polk & Wardwell Clinic Staff Attorney supports the hiring of a staff attorney for the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic to help manage the Clinic’s growing client base in underserved communities and supervise students.
- David Polk Study Room in the Li Lu Law Library.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- Josh Mermelstein – Fried Frank Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in memory of Joshua Mermelstein CC ’77, LAW ’80, with generous support from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, friends, family, and colleagues.
Irell & Manella LLP
- Irell & Manella Prize is awarded annually to a student in recognition of their outstanding leadership, academic excellence, and good citizenship within the community during their first year.
- Richard Borow – Irell & Manella Scholarship Fund was established in memory of Richard Borow ’59 by the Irell & Manella Foundation and Morgan and Helen Chu, with support from friends, family, and colleagues.
Latham & Watkins LLP
- Lead sponsorship for the Private Sector Career Symposium, administered by the Office of Career Services, as well as the Latham & Watkins LLP Dean’s Panel.
- Latham & Watkins Study Room in the Li Lu Law Library.
Kirkland & Ellis
- Kirkland & Ellis Practicum Fund for Course-related Travel takes advantage of the expertise and contacts of our world-renowned faculty by supporting course-related student travel at home and abroad—from the United States Supreme Court to the United Nations Human Rights Committee Session in Geneva.
Microsoft Corporation
- Support for TrialWatch, a collaborative initiative of Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and the Clooney Foundation for Justice. The project’s mission is to monitor and respond to trials around the world that pose a high risk of human rights violations.
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
- Mori Hamada Study Room in the Li Lu Law Library.
Morrison & Foerster
- Morrison & Foerster Japan Public Interest Fellowship Fund provides 1L and 2L students with the opportunity to gain practical experience working for public-interest organizations in Japan during the summer break.
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
- Recognized as a supporter of the Li Lu Law Library renovation.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Moot Court Program supports the first-year student moot court program and the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Program for second- and third-year students, culminating in the final round arguments before a bench of distinguished judges.
Sidley Austin
- Sidley Austin Spring Break Pro Bono Caravan Fund provides students with the opportunity to spend their spring break working in legal service and public interest organizations across the United States and abroad.
- Sidley Austin also contributes generously to the multi-donor Eric H. Holder, Jr. Scholarship Fund.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Study Room in the Li Lu Law Library.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Lead donor of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘59 Professorship Fund.
- Recognized as a major supporter of the Li Lu Law Library renovation.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges Judicial Clerkship Training Institute supports an innovative program aimed at training students and alumni for the distinctive experience of judicial clerkships.
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges Distinguished Jurist Speaker Series bring judges to the Law School for daylong programming with students, faculty, and staff.
- Harvey R. Miller Lecture Series Fund supports a series of lectures on topics related to aspects of the law, including business, constitutional law, and more. The Fund was established in memory of Harvey R. Miller ’59, who was a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and a leading corporate bankruptcy attorney.
Winston & Strawn
- Winston Strawn International Moot Court Program supports the International Moot Court Program for first-, second-, and third-year students, including the European Law Moot Court, the Jessup International Law Moot Court, the Vienna International Arbitration Moot Court, and the upper-year international moot court competitions.
- Winston & Strawn LLP Study Room in the Li Lu Law Library.
- Winston & Strawn Scholarship Fund provides scholarship support to students with financial need.