Weil To Invest $1M Per Year in Pre-Law Students’ Nonprofit Work

Weil, Gotshal & Manges is introducing an initiative that will give students entering prestigious law schools the chance to work with U.S.-based nonprofits for a year.

The firm is investing $1 million per year and providing mentorship to 10 students to work in the public interest. And there’s no expectation that they’ll go to Weil—or even to Big Law—once law school is over.

The aim of the Weil Legal Innovators Program is to create incentives for participants, who are “the best and brightest,” to become future leaders of these nonprofit organizations, said Barry M. Wolf, the firm’s executive partner ...