Butler Rubin Awards Annual Diversity Scholarship to Eric White
Law
Student Becomes 5th Recipient of Butler Rubin Scholarship
CHICAGO,
February 1, 2010 – The Chicago-based law
firm
Butler
Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP has awarded its annual
diversity scholarship to Northwestern University Law School student Eric L. White. White is the fifth recipient of the
scholarship Butler Rubin established in 2005 to foster
diversity in the legal profession.
White is currently a first-year law student at
Northwestern University School of Law and expects to receive his law degree in
2012. In addition to a $10,000
renewable scholarship for tuition and other expenses associated with law
school, White will work as a 2010 summer associate at Butler
Rubin.
"Eric has shown outstanding leadership in his career
as well as excellent academics and is the type of individual we look for in our
diversity scholarship recipient each year," said Karen M. Borg, partner in
charge of Butler Rubin’s Diversity Committee.
A cum laude graduate of the
University of Florida with a B.A. in Political Science, White
worked as a teacher in Charlotte , N.C. in the Teach for America program
for two years before entering law school.
"We are a boutique law firm committed to diversity,
and this scholarship gives us the opportunity every summer to establish what we
hope turns out to be a long-term relationship with a diverse law student," said
Julie Rodriguez Aldort, a partner at the firm and a member of the firm’s
diversity committee.
Butler Rubin created the scholarship program to assist
diverse students financially and to create employment opportunities for those
students during their law school careers. Students are selected for the
scholarship based on high levels of performance and achievement, a strong
interest in the private practice of law in the area of business litigation, an
intention to remain in the Chicago area following graduation, and
outstanding interpersonal and communication skills. Butler Rubin selects one scholarship winner per
year.
Formed in 1980, Chicago-based Butler Rubin
has established itself as a well-known litigation boutique
assisting clients nationally and internationally in the core practice areas of
reinsurance and commercial litigation, including antitrust, competition law and
opt-out antitrust litigation; business reorganization, bankruptcy and
insolvency; class action defense; and products liability and mass tort
matters.
    
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