Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has committed almost $10m (£5.07m) to a new programme backing students from minority backgrounds to address what the New York heavyweight called a “persistent lack of diversity” in the legal profession, writes the New York Law Journal. 
Skadden – the top-grossing firm on the Am Law 100 – will commit $9.6m (£4.87m) over the next decade toward an honours programme designed to encourage and support minority students at the City College of New York to become attorneys.
