Gift to Support Diversity and
UConn Foundation newsletter Momentum, Fall 2006 issue
Bingham McCutchen, a 900-attorney law firm with 11 offices worldwide, including in Hartford, has donated $50,000 to support diversity programming and a scholarship fund at the School of Law. Bingham McCutchen will contribute $25,000 each for a Diversity Programming Fund and its Scholarship Fund through 2010.
“Bingham McCutchen is proud to support the University of Connecticut School of Law in promoting diversity and expanding opportunities to the next generation of lawyers,” says Bingham McCutchen partner Evan Flaschen ’82, adjunct professor at the law school, former president of the University of Connecticut Law School Foundation and co-head of Bingham’s financial restructuring/insolvency practice.
The Diversity Programming Fund, an endowed fund, will support programming sponsored by or hosted at the law school that seeks to further racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, sexual-orientation or gender-identity diversity on campus and within the legal profession.
The Bingham McCutchen Scholarship Fund will award scholarships each year over the next five years at the discretion of the Admissions Office to an academically strong first or second year law student who has overcome significant economic, linguistic, cultural or educational obstacles, or who belongs to a group historically under-represented in law schools and the legal profession. Candidates must present a record of leadership in diversity issues or particular promise of substantial and distinctive multicultural contributions to the law school and the legal profession, and express the preference to live and work in Connecticut following graduation.
The Bingham McCutchen scholars are in addition to the Bingham McCutchen International Scholarship Fund that the firm established in 2001, recently renamed the Anthony J. Smits International Scholarship in memory of Hartford partner Anthony J. Smits, a 1997 graduate of the Law School's LL.M. program, an adjunct professor at the Law School and a member of the board of trustees of the University of Connecticut Law School Foundation, Inc. The Smits Scholarship is awarded each year to an international student in the Law School's U.S. Legal Studies LL.M. Program.
