A Columbia Law School program, staffed by students, that provides free legal advice for nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs and community groups in Harlem got a big influx of cash courtesy of Big Law. 

Davis Polk & Wardwell issued a grant of $500,000 to the law school’s Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic, started and run by Columbia Law School clinical law professor Lynnise Pantin, that will allow the clinic to expand its reach and staff as it works with businesses and startups around the Columbia campus in Manhattan’s northwestern neighborhoods.   

Lynnise Pantin Lynnise Pantin. Courtesy photo