Inside Big Law Newsletter
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP asked law school student groups to confirm they don’t support harassment or risk losing funding from the firm amid a surge of pro-Palestine protests on college campuses earlier this year.
The firm’s recruiting department in March contacted some 50 student groups at various schools via email, Dr. Milana Hogan, Ed.D., Sullivan & Cromwell’s chief talent officer, said in an interview. A women of color affinity group at Yale Law School and a New York University Law school LGBTQ student group were among those contacted.
The groups were asked to confirm their support for a November 2023 letter from the leaders of Sullivan & Cromwell and several law firms. The letter raised concerns about “reports of anti-Semitic harassment” on campuses and condemned “anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism or any other form of violence, hatred or bigotry.”
The firm said it would sponsor the groups “based on our understanding that the organization shares views that are consistent with those expressed in the letter,” according to an email obtained by Bloomberg Law.
The emails were part of the firm’s evaluation of its on-campus recruitment and group sponsorships, Hogan said.
